I’ve made some new shoes! These have had a bit of a journey in the making, with a gap of about five months in the middle of it when I did absolutely nothing to them! Several things; feeling torn as…
Tag: socks
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…
Thoughts on a slow wardrobe…
This morning, I noticed a hole in one of my socks. Now, your average non-sock-knitter wouldn’t give it a second thought, just toss them out, toddle off and spend a handful of bucks on a bunch of new ones. But…
Some foot fabulousness; hand-knit by Mum
My mother gave me a special gift for my birthday recently, two works of art designed to adorn the foot-al region of my person: a pair of her famous Turkish socks. Well, famous in our own family, anyway… traditionally she…
Fabulous stuff made by Mum and Dad…
My Mum and Dad are enormously creative and talented. They have made heaps and heaps of beautiful things…a visit to their house reveals one lovely work after another. I took some pictures of just a few during our last visit……
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…
