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box of socks, March edition

21/03/2019 6:49 pm \ 6 Comments \

I barely have time to scratch myself lately.. but did manage to produce my quota of socks for March, yay!!

I used a mystery ball of wool from A Homespun House, in a colourway named Peppermint Tea… now, I ask you, is this colour in ANY WAY AT ALL suggestive of peppermint tea?  Like is there even the smallest hint in there somewhere… anywhere?!!!  INEXPLICABLE!!  I’m pretty sure this is going to be the very last ball of mystery wool I ever buy… anyway, naming head-scratchiness aside, I do rather love this neon lollypink colourway; it is very vividly pretty and and it’s going to be a fun one in winter.   I jazzed up an otherwise plain sock with three rows of little fair isle hearts at the top; for these I used a few leftovers from my Advent-ure jumper, from the woolly advent calendar I bought from Dingo Dyeworks, here.

The sock pattern is my usual; from  a 60s Patons pamphlet, and here is my super advanced and complicated pattern for the hearts.  I cast on 60 stitches for my socks, and the pattern is a 10-stitch repeat, therefore each row is repeated six times across each row.

Because they are socks, and I don’t want to risk a toe getting caught in the fair isle yarn at the back when putting them on and pulling through a giant horrible loop of yarn – quelle horreur!!  I wove the alternate colour in at the back for every single stitch.   Which does make for a nice, neat and very tidy inside!

The current state of the box of socks …

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box of socks, February edition

28/02/2019 11:00 pm \ 6 Comments \

Squeaking in just under the wire, my socks for February…  I only just finished them this arvo; quickly took a few pictures and hastened to write this post, toute de suite!  Man; I’ve got to stop setting ridiculous deadlines for myself, like trying to fit in little projects like this around a wedding dress.  A pair of socks each month? really?? what was I thinking!  the wedding dress has been taking up AAAAAALLLLLLL my time… I’m really enjoying it all so much! and am very very excited to share it here once it’s finished… I’m so proud of it and think it’s looking beautiful, even half done!  Just this week I’ve reached a point where I have to do another fitting with Kelly before I can do any more and she has been too busy to pop over; thus giving me a few days to do other stuff.  Thus, the February socks got finished! and I also managed to squeeze in a new little sundress for myself too, hehe…

the photos above? well I snapped a nice clean sterile picture of the socks, all very neat and tidy and with no Sophie, but then she trotted over to say hi and obviously is stealing the show.  ‘Ello, you booful big floooffy cushion you!  “Ooose a booful girl now?  What a natural!

but the socks!!  My brain is all over the shop, sorry, but honestly there’s not much to say… the sophisticated mottled grey with occasional rusty splodges was the 25th and last, mystery skein I received in my Dingo Dyeworks advent calendar; the large box to be opened on Christmas Day.  And I had little bit of rusty coloured wool leftover from my rag-doll Sally’s hair; Morris Empire Superwash merino 4ply, in colour 441, Rust Twist; to be exact.  At first I was little lacklustre on the grey, held the rust against it and liked the combo, decided on stripes.  I thought it’d make them more interesting; and it does, just a little! but I admit not by much, haha!  The “leg” of the sock is two rows of the grey per one row of rust.

The pattern is my standard sock pattern, from Mum’s Patons pamphlet from the 60s, the same one I’ve used for literally ALL my other hand knitted socks.

Now I just have a few more blog posts to write on some other things I’ve snuck in lately, the sundress, and another thing, and then it’s back to the wedding dress!  Eeeek!  Such a whirlwind!

the box of socks!

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box of socks, January edition

31/01/2019 6:17 pm \ 15 Comments \

It’s completely bizarre to be donning a pair of socks on a stifling hot day of 35C, which indeedy yes it is today, but I absolutely must! since I promised myself I’d knit a pair of socks for each month of this year, it’s the last day of January and I don’t want to be late!

And so.  I ordered a mystery ball of wool from A Homespun House; from the monthly lucky dip club for November.  I very much liked the idea of this; because the mystery ball of hand-dyed wool also came with a handmade, and most probably, extremely cute, mystery progress-keeper from sucre sucre miniatures, aaaand… well I just felt like treating myself to a mysterious little package.  So I did!  I placed my order, and impatiently and excitedly awaited the arrival of my wool.

The skein was marked “Edeberry”.   Was it was meant to read Elderberry?  *shrug* I mean, not that a name makes any difference to the rose really; because the colours are delicious; a subtle and sophisticated moody range of smoky purples, pinks and coffee colours, with a bit of ocean blue and grass green thrown in for good measure.  And that little troll-progress-keeper?  Soooo cute, oui?… He’s my new knitting buddy,  and he’s called Ramon.

I used my fave, same little old pattern, from a 60’s Patons pamphlet; a nice simple, plain and eminently serviceable pattern.  I like that all the interest is all in the lovely dusky coffee-pink colours..  and this same dusky coffee-pink loveliness will be surely appreciated come the sharply cold grey days of winter…

My box of socks for the year so far!

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cha-cha pink stooff

11/08/2017 1:04 pm \ 25 Comments \

Hello!

Our recent holiday was a pretty multi-locationed one, covering a lot of ground and involving buses, trains, ferries, sea planes, also including a few long loooong waits in airports thanks to flights getting annoyingly delayed by fog, and two long looong ferry trips of a WHOLE day each.  And because I am the eternal optimist about Getting Stuff Done, even whilst away, I had tossed into my luggage some sock wool and needles, just in case.  And thank goodness I did ‘cos consequently I finished two new projects. As they say in Canada, O yaaa! #AirFistPunch

Item ONE! … or should that be items one and two?

A pair of sockeroonies… photographed against the majetic forests of Hanson Island in beautiful British Columbia, Canada…   I’m poking my feet outside the tent we camped in, on our absolutely wonderful canoeing trip…

Yarn; Morris Empire Merino 4ply in col 449, delightfully called Cha-Cha Pink; and the small bit of Sheen Green colour way is leftover from my hand warmers.  I used my go to sock pattern, from a 1960’s Patons pamphlet that I’ve inherited from my grandmother.

also here in the stunningly beautiful houseboat we stayed in, on the Khutzamateen River.  I think I’d juuuust finished them here and popped them on for a photo opp immediately!

Item TWO! or should that be… items three and four?!

A pair of adorbs little hand warmers…  photographed against the majestic back alleyways of Vancouver in beautiful British Columbia, Canada.  Pose is thanks to a grapefruit mimosa and the influence of a group of hilarious Vancouver ladies with whom I spent an awesomely fun few hours… thanks so much to Melanie, Sue, Sveta, Barbara and Louisa for a fabulous morning!

from left: Sue, some random tourist, Louisa, Barbara, Sveta, and Melanie  and yes, those ARE indeed the aforementioned grapefruit mimosas, ahem…

this pic and the one below both courtesy of Melanie… thanks so much Melanie!!

me with my loupe sister, Melanie… we’re both wearing our magnifying glass “loupes” made by Melanie’s talented husband Osamu Kobayashi… I’m proud to say I was Osamu’s very first customer!  I wear my loupe every day and it’s absolutely brilliant for reading menus, labels in Spotlight or in the supermarket when I can’t be bothered hauling my spectacles out of my bag….BRILLIANT, I SAY

and I’m wearing my cha cha pink glovelets, natch! Right here they’re hot off the needles by about maybe an hour, tops !

Anyway… the deets, I’d taken two balls of the cha-cha pink and of course there was plenty of leftovers, and I thought there’s sure to be enough to do something… And fortunately there was plenty!

I just made them up as I went along, pretty simple; and I’ve written a little pattern which I am happy to share.  Please feel free to use, I just ask as always that if you do then please do credit me and link back to me here  🙂

Simple hand warmers:

Note: one size, fits most ladies

Materials:

approx  120m (135 yd) of 4ply (fingering weight) yarn… I used Morris Empire superwash merino 4ply wool  … this pattern uses only about two thirds of a 50g ball

set of 4-5 double pointed needles 2.5mm (US 1) or whatever gives the correct tension as stated below.

Tension (gauge): 31 st and 45 rows to 10cm

Cast on 60 st and distribute stitches evenly onto 3 needles, continue working in the round…
K2 P2, repeat for 10 rows/rounds
Switch to K stitch,continue knitting for a further 22 rows/rounds, turn
sl 1, P59 st… turn.
sl 1, K59 turn
Rep previous 2 rows for a following 20 rows, turn
sl 1, K59 then join work again in the round and continue knitting for a further 12 rows/rounds
Commence K2 P2 rib, continue for 35 rows/rounds.
Cast off loosely

Repeat second hand warmer the same way.

And I’m wearing them today too… wanna see how I “styled” them?  I know what you’re thinking… those things don’t go with her outfit AT ALL.  No, they don’t.  They really really don’t.  But I’m wearing them anyway, hehe. #SayNoToGoodTaste #GoodTasteIsEvil

Details, above:

Blouse; Sudley by Megan Nielsen patterns, in mustard silk crepe, details here
Skirt; Axel by Megan Nielsen paterns, in terracotta pleather, details here
Cardigan; Miette by Andi Satterlund, in Debbie Bliss Donegal luxury tweed in colour Gold, details here
Leggings; self-drafted, in over dyed cotton jersey, details here
Socks (not seen): knitted by me, details here
Boots; Roberto del Carlo, from Zomp shoes

Details, at top:

Tee; self-drafted in striped jersey knit
Skirt; Jade by Paprika patterns, in charcoal cotton jersey
Tights; self-drafted, in black stretch, details here
Shoes; Merrell

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Beluga knitted gloves

11/05/2013 10:04 am \ 35 Comments \

I have knitted some gloves!
I used an pattern from the same knitting booklet I use for my hand-knitted socks; the Patons Knitting Book C11, a little pamphlet dating from the early 60’s.  The only change I made was to knit each glove entirely in the round, including the thumb and each of the fingers so there are no seams to stitch up in the end.  Bonus!

For my gloves, I used a 100% Australian Merino wool, which is beautifully soft and snuggly against the skin.  Australia has the finest merino wool in the world, producing nearly 80% of the world’s fine apparel wool (reference)  This is the Morris & Sons Empire Superwash 4ply, available here.  It is the same wool I have used for most of my hand-knitted socks.
My husband took these photos, because there is an inherent difficulty with photographing your own hands, even when operating a delayed response remote control!  Some posing experiments were conducted to determine how to most effectively show off the new gloves.  It was kinda hilarious.  I hope some of these outtakes amuse  🙂

Details:
Gloves; pattern from the Patons Knitting Book C11, and using Morris Empire Superwash 4ply in col Beluga (430)

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Scarlet Twist socks

04/07/2011 6:36 am \ 20 Comments \

So, having got over my aversion to taking my own photo… ta da!  I’m back, but who knows what hideousness and violations against the fashion world are being committed, just off-camera, hmm?  We’ll never know… actually, I am quite stylishly clad today, but you’ll just have to take my word for it.  Because the purpose of this post is to reveal my new, and possibly last for a while, sockies.  Last, you may ask?  am I sick of knitting socks? well, no, I still have enthusiasm for sock-knitting and I still have some sock wool left.  But I think I have quite enough socks now :), even Craig is helping himself to my sock drawer occasionally, and I am thinking of making other things from my remaining sock wool… just exactly what is to be revealed sometime in the future…
Do you like my new companion? (Sienna is taking a break from modelling too…)  I have included pussycats in my sock pictures before, here, and here, and once a sort-of animal got in on the act here, but this is a first for this green-eyed diva…  she is very fluffy and very placid, and has just been treated to a good vigorous brush, so was in the mood for sitting happily and plumply, if briefly, at my feet; that beautiful glossy grey coat setting off my socks to perfection.

Details:
Socks; knitted in Morris Empire Superwash Merino 4 ply in Scarlet Twist (col 453) with Beluga (col 430) heels and toes, based on the pattern for Ladies Sockettes in Patons Knitting Book C11, a circa 1960’s publication

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Bluestone socks, and a new pet

18/04/2011 7:16 am \ 8 Comments \

Normally if one of my children brought home yet another new pet I would gently but firmly manoeuvre said pet back to where it came from.  Our house already passes for a menagerie.  However our new house guest is quite welcome, as he is economical on food, undemanding as far as expensive veterinary visits and vaccinations go, and will not add wear and tear to the garden and furniture.
I don’t know what this little guy’s name is, or whether he even has been given one yet.  He just turned up on our sideboard one day.  Unknown origins or parentage notwithstanding, he is already creeping into my affections with his gentle quizzical little face and sweet nature, not to mention the cheerful colour of his low maintenance coat.
Above, he is asking quietly and politely if we can go walkies now.
Below I am complying with his request.  Isn’t he sweet?
In other new things, I have knitted some new socks… but I concede that that is small bickies compared to a new pet.

Socks; adapted from the pattern for Ladies Sockettes, from Patons Knitting Book C11, a 1960’s publication, using Morris Empire Superwash Merino 4 ply in Bluestone (col 408) and with Beluga (col 430) heels and toes.

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Deep Scarlet socks

07/04/2011 6:53 am \ 7 Comments \

A pair of sockies hasn’t been seen here on the blog for a while, although actually I finished these right at the beginning of March, and then got mired down in the me-made March maelstrom and sort of forgot about them… I know, how could one forget abut twenty hours of knitting, hmmm?  Definitely signs of old age creeping in…
These are knitted using some more of the Morris sock yarn Sam bought for me in Melbourne when he was there on his volleyball tour.  I only have about three balls of this type of yarn left.
The weather is cooling off slightly, yay!  enough that my feet were OK with being encased in socks for a photoshoot.  Hehe, our weather girl announced cheerily last night that as we’re expecting a high of only 24C (75F) we should all dress warmly for today, which made us laugh.  Of course this is not really a cold day at all, but compared to the summer we’ve just had it does feel a bit on the freezing side, hilariously.  Given that only two days ago we had 35C (95F).  And joy, last night it rained, the first rain we’ve had in 67 days.  I was pretty excited to put on a cardigan this morning.  Oh, cardigans, how much I love thee, and have missed thee… and I thoroughly enjoyed walking the dog in the rain this morning.  Truly, no kidding.  Just a little bit of rain has brought a freshness to the air, an environmental sigh of relief if you will.  You can almost hear the gardens cheering.  Even Sienna got excited and sprung along with an extra zing in her step.

Details:
Socks; knitted in Morris Empire Superwash Merino 4ply in Deep Scarlet (col 412) with Beluga (col 430) heels and toes, based on the pattern for Ladies Sockettes in Patons Knitting Book C11, a circa 1960’s publication

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