Completed Mona socks Clematis (with the dead tree in the background) Bluebells and strawberry plants underneath the cherry tree

I have cast on another pair of socks. No, the Sake socks aren’t done. Last night, I finished the gusset decs on the first Sake sock and decided to try it on. Guess what? It doesn’t fit! I can’t get it to go past my ankle. So, either my youngest sister will want them and [...]

Today, the post’ll have to be in list form because, well, I like lists and I don’t really have much to say. 1) Thira is done. Took less than a week to knit. No pics yet because the weather is being uncooperative. 2) Cast on new project: Kernel scarf (knitty pattern) from the Manos Silk [...]

These have been done for awhile now, but I haven’t had a chance to blog because omg Busy. First there was IVDC (in Blackpool), then the following weekend was O’s birthday party. ‘Twas awesome, almost the whole dance team came! Had a bit of a *flail* moment when I realized how many would actually be [...]

I’ve reached the halfway point in my crochet blanket! Yay! Now onto the knitting content. Just realized I hadn’t blogged about the first socks I knit this month, so this’ll be a double FO post. Both of these are a part of the Knit.Sock.Love KAL I’m in. The green socks are the Marilinda pattern knit [...]

The pattern is live! *happy dance* These mittens were made to match the Sade hat. Rolled “brim” cuffs, twisted stitches, the same twisted decrease patterning… The only thing missing is the seed stitch. I didn’t see that as being very comfortable on hands. The left mitten decreases towards the right, the right towards the left [...]

This is us doing the Viennese Waltz last Saturday at the Sheffield Social. And thanks to my camera having its settings wonky (I was messing around with it and didn’t put it back to normal before I had to go dance), a lot of the pictures came out blurry. But, occasionally, the blurriness created cool [...]

Ever wake up knowing exactly what you want to knit? That’s what happened with this hat (and the co-ordinating mittens which will be released once the testers are done). The night before I’d planned out exactly what I was going to cast on next (Annis from knitty actually; I did finally cast that on last [...]

I’ve just finished the mittens I talked about last week. Tried them on now that they had thumbs (pre-blocking) and they’re still snug. As long as I don’t have long nails, I’m fine with them. So now they’ve had a bath and hopefully once dry they’ll have stretched enough to be comfortable. On the whole, [...]

So, apparently I’ve got freakishly large hands. I’ll back up a bit: I’m knitting this really pretty colorwork mitten (Andalus by Heather Desserud). I picked a gorgeous orange and yellow so that I could wear the mittens with my Haruni shawlette. I waited three months for the yarn to arrive. I finally get my yarn [...]