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…
Tag: Patons knitting book C11
box of socks, February edition
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…
box of socks, January edition
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…
cha-cha pink stooff
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…
Beluga knitted gloves
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…
Scarlet Twist socks
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…
Bluestone socks, and a new pet
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…
Deep Scarlet socks
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…
