I don’t think of myself as a pink person — I mean, taste-wise, not appearance-wise — but I am loving these socks so hard.
Crazy-hard-loving these socks. Every few stitches I pause, tilt my head to the side and lovingly readjust the stitches on the needles. These are my new beloved Watermelon Socks. I bought the [...]
Also tagged awesomeWeekend performance review.
Cooking
Sourdough making: 17 points. (50 points for starting first sourdough bread dough; -25 points for forgetting to feed the starter; -20 points for the dud dough which did not produce bread; +12 points for coming up with name “Pongo” for the starter — have renewed zeal for maintaining starter culture)
Yoghurt making: 30 points. [...]
I wrote a little while ago about the start of my Anxiety socks, and now I’ve finally completed them. Huzzahs are in order! I finished the first one in a fit of unhappiness and anxiety, in a situation where there was a lot of driving in the car, a lot of waiting around, and a [...]
Also tagged FO Report, knittingI have had a stressful week. In preparation for a long car journey on Friday morning, I cast on this lovely sock.
This is where it stood mid-Saturday. By Saturday night, I had a completed sock, kitchener bound-off and all. I cast on the second.
Here we are on Monday morning, after another long yet necessary car [...]
Also tagged knittingHaving introduced you to all my sock yarn, I let you in to a little, private cupboard of my life (specifically, the yarn cupboard). Now I’m going to take it to the next level and show you some of the socks I currently know, some I wish I knew better, and some I’m hoping, someday, [...]
Also tagged knittingIn an effort to shake off some blues I picked up somewhere, I decided to have a play with my stash. But I didn’t get any further than my sock stash. My sock yarns, let me show you them…
Doesn’t look like that much, does it? And it nearly all fits in one box! (Except for [...]
Also tagged knittingM and I have a combined washer/dryer. Some days, I love it to pieces. When it’s pouring rain outside and I need to do washing, I love being able to turn it on and walk away, knowing that in a few hours, I’ll have toasty-dry-fresh clean washing. I don’t use the dryer all that often, [...]
Also tagged knitting, shitPresenting: The Desert Monkeys.
When I got this yarn from eBay, I surprised myself. I’m not really one for the orange-russet palate, and I don’t really like light blue with anything even vaguely warmish. And I’m not really into cashmere for socks, as decadent as it is (actually, that’s probably it: I’m probably [...]
So, the other night, I posted about the vibrant, glorious success of the Desert Monkey socks. Remember? Do you need a minute to go back and read that post, so we can all recall how happy I was with the whole thing?
So I cast on the second sock. Had the toe completely worked, and had [...]
This is the best sock I’ve ever knitted. Nothing about them went wrong. The toe is smooth and snug, the pattern gorgeous, and the bind-off elastic and springy. They’re magnificent. I couldn’t take a picture of them on my feet that would do justice to how excellent these puppies are, so you get a rumpled, [...]
Also tagged Desert Monkeys, knitting