So between us, mum and I have almost finished the blanket. Things that I discovered: Mum and I pick up stitches differently. It’s easy to get turned around when something is garter stitch. Any time you start making something as a present, between the time it takes you to buy the wall and knit juuuuust [...]
Category Archives: Knitting
FO: Monkey
February 21, 2008 – 8:58 pm
Finished and blocked! One pair of Monkey(s) by Cookie A [My Ravelry Page] They’ve been done for about three weeks but it’s taken me awhile to get them photographed and uploaded. Otherwise, I actually don’t have a WIP on the needles at the moment because I just frogged it – perfectly nice pattern, just wasn’t [...]
Blanket for Mummu (or wow, I’m bad at updating)
February 18, 2008 – 4:57 pm
Ravelry makes me lazy. I’m over here for anyone who’s curious. So my current projects are herringbone socks (which look like a pretty good ayof using up the odds and ends of sock wool) and a blanket my mum and I are doing for my grandmother. Since we don’t live together, we needed a pattern [...]
FO: Cabled Rangoli Hat
January 20, 2008 – 8:50 pm
I’m on a roll, hold the mayo! Cabled Rangoli Hat by Desi knitter in RCY Baby Alpaca DK, which was another accidental yarn purchase along with the Pure Cashmere. It took about a skein and a half and took about two days worth of knitting time. I had a few problems with the written instructions [...]
FO: Fetchings
January 16, 2008 – 10:05 pm
Look at that – I accidentally tripped and fell in the bargain bin at John Lewis on the weekend and came out with three skeins of Debbie Bliss’ Pure Cashmere in pale blue. I was determined that they wouldn’t be sucked into my stash because I am trying to knit the damn thing back into [...]
WIP: Monkey(s)
December 31, 2007 – 10:34 pm
I hope you all had a fabulous festive break. I certainly did! I spent most of it curled up in an armchair, trapped under a cat at my parents house Oop North. It was was quite blissful and filled with knitting. My mother loved the Jaywalkers in Jitterbug Lagoon I knitted for her present and [...]
Allliiivee
November 8, 2007 – 8:12 pm
Uh, I realise that the last time I posted I made dire predictions about my future involving becoming tangled up in yarn. These predictions didn’t entirely come true but I fell silent and victim to a series of hilarious events that are commonly known as “flat hunting”, “packing” “moving house” and “oh god, unpacking.” Anyway, [...]
Socks I have known
October 11, 2007 – 10:57 pm
Most of them, at least. So I knit a lot of socks because they fit in the bag easily and they’re easy to mess about with. Also, they make you feel like a proper knitter. This is almost all of the socks I’ve knit and represent long months of accumulated sock-wisdom.
Mmm, yarn purchases
March 31, 2007 – 4:09 pm
I have been a tiny bit trigger happy in regards to yarn purchases recently. My co-blogger has been tutting at me a lot but it was all totally worth it when all my recent purchases arrived in one fell swoop and made a moderately awful week so much better. There’s just something special about getting [...]
Sockses!
March 21, 2007 – 10:56 pm
Look! Socks! Plain and simple: toe up, short row heel and knitted in Rowan 4 ply. I actually started them back when I moved to London but there was a bit of sulking and ignoring (noticing a pattern here?) when I managed to cast off too tightly on one. But my co-blogger (the silent one [...]