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Sneaking in under the wire, one last finished project for 2013: Completely plain top-down socks for me in Sparkleduck‘s self-striping yarn in the “Cloth Cat” colourway. Bagpuss socks to cheer me up on...
View ArticleWeekend crafting, 1-2 February
This week I made a bag. It’s not just any old bag, though. This is a special bottle-carrying bag. Our local council don’t do kerbside collection of glass bottles for recycling, so T takes any bottles...
View ArticleThese socks were made for walking
Despite having less sock-knitting time than I used to because I’m walking part of my way home from work in the evenings instead of just getting the bus, I managed to finish my Regia 6-ply walking socks...
View ArticleMaking something different
I’ve spent the last two days taking part in a participatory video workshop as part of a project aimed at reducing stigma around mental health issues run by a local charity with funding from Time to...
View ArticleThis blogger went to Scotland, and all she posted was this lousy sock picture
Hello everyone! I didn’t mean to stay away from the blog for quite so long; I was on holiday for a week, celebrating my 40th birthday with two parties held at yarn shops and a trip to Scotland, but...
View ArticleMore socks
I swear that most of my knitting time is spent on things that aren’t socks; I am currently on the second sleeves of two cardigans and have knitted three of the four clues of Åsa Tricosa‘s mystery shawl...
View ArticleSlow socks
It seems to have been quite a while since I last posted here, though I have been knitting away. (I haven’t touched my spinning wheel since the end of the Tour de Fleece, though – must rectify that...
View ArticleHoliday knitting
Yes, I know my holiday was two months ago, but then I stopped knitting for a month because of my elbow*, so I have only just finished my holiday knitting projects. Stefanie Bold’s Berlin socks, in the...
View ArticleFO: Leyburn
Getting back into the swing of actually finishing things, after a slow start to the year, my latest socks: The pattern is Leyburn, though I modified it to knit top-down as I’m not a fan of toe-up socks...
View ArticleSocks and geeks
I haven’t been knitting on the bus to work lately; I’ve gone back to walking half the journey and am finding myself tending to read for the other half, so in nearly two months I’d only managed to knit...
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