Did you know: on Ravelry, there’s a whole group dedicated to untangling knots for you? It’s called “Knot a Problem”, (because everyone knows that if you start a Ravelry group without incorporating a pun into the title somehow, monsters eat your eyeballs out of their sockets while you sleep) and I can only tip my [...]
Tagged restartI’m sure that, like me, you don’t really get to choose your knitting projects as they’re chosen for you. Personally, mine selected by a team of zebras with a curiously high interest in all things sartorial and fibre-related. “This one.” They say, standing around me in a stripey ring of stern instruction. “Knit this one.” [...]
Tagged FO Report, Mossy TendrilsI don’t know what it means either. Let’s talk about socks!
It is wintertime and my chronically cold feet were protesting. I love how warm my Doc Marten boots are, especially when coupled with handknit socks, but this winter the handknits didn’t seem to quite cut the mustard. Enter the thick, chewy bootsock.
I love them. They’re [...]
A couple of years ago (sweet merciful French fries, years? Yes. Huh.) I made my Mumini a sweater. It was in one of my (then) favourite yarns, Cleckheaton’s Merino Supreme, in olive green — and there is a whole rant up my well-cabled sleeve about that particular yarn, the heartbreaker; that callous, cruel, deceptive…focus, focus. Having [...]
Tagged Purple Olive, restart, socks, yarnosophyWell, I didn’t quite finish Silver Sands before the move, but I did a week later: we moved into our new place on Friday, and I finished them the Saturday of the week after — that’s gotta count for some sort of commendation, right? I’d settle for a poorly-printed participation certificate. Anyway, they’re gorgeous. This [...]
Tagged FO Report, Silver SandsI gotta ‘fess up — I didn’t finish all the Unfinished Business that I had hoped to before we moved house. I’d like to tell you that it was by the skin of my teeth, that it was entirely due to bad luck and that I was *that* close to finishing all the knitting projects, [...]
Tagged Mossy Tendrils, reading time, Silver Sands, The Big Pre-Move Challenge, yarn teaches hard lessonsI have been diligently applying myself to working through my Knitting List (an altogether different thing to a Bucket List, I assure you) in pursuit of the Big Pre-Move Challenge. Presenting; Silver Sands Mitts! One down, a little bit of one to go.
I’m making the Prismatic Scarf, AKA Silver Sands, for my lovely Mumini: it’s [...]
I finished my Skew socks! One of the key contenders on the Finish-Before-The-Move knit-list, I love these socks. I thought I cast them on the day they came out, but they’re from the Winter 2009 Knitty, so that surely can’t be right. Anyway, I love them. I did not, however, love the process of trying [...]
Tagged FO Report, skew, socks, The Big Pre-Move ChallengeSo I mentioned before that I’m using my forthcoming Moving Day (just under three weeks now) to light a fire under my reading list — trying to get all my half-read books completed before the day of the shift. Well, this is part of a broader plan to really get stuck into my To-Do box [...]
Tagged Mossy Tendrils, Silver Sands, skew, The Big Pre-Move Challenge, yarn teaches hard lessonsI love this picture.
I have just cast on Baby Cables and Big Ones Too because it is incredibly sexy and funky and a new jumper and I need all those things. It’s a pretty straightforward pattern, once you’ve read it through and grokked it: a simple top-down raglan, with a garter-stitch yoke and garter stitch [...]
