I just tried on the blocked Fountain Hat and, you know, I think it may not be so very large at all. It really does not suit me – though it is difficult to tell with my hair in the mess that it is currently in… I’ll let you know after Mr L gets around …
Monthly archives: March 2008
Impetus
I knitted on through the REM live gig on R2 last night and am now into the third pattern rep (just) The funny thing is that I am still not disenchanted. I actually want to make progress rather than give up. I have decided that the important thing with these socks will be to keep …
Quick stepping
While I couldn’t exactly call this The Sock From Hell, I can already tell that this will be no love affair ‘twixt it and I. I also could not call this tedium per se, but the sheer slowness of progress is set to drive me barmy. I am only up to R11 of the second …
Slow, slow, slip, slip, slow
Latest project: Slippery Socks in Stroud Socrates (Arizona) from Violet Green. The yarn is fantastic and I have been saving it for the right project. Slippery Socks seem to fit the bill. I cast on last night, still rejecting Mr plumbum’s socks on a “poor light stopped play” basis. Hah! So what do I do? …
The Dreaming Peacocks FO
To recap – my fountain hat was knitting up to too loose a gauge, on too large a needle, and I also could not follow the pattern on the circular needles. Constantly tinking back was spoiling the yarn. So I ripped it and cast on to 2 straights of the correct size. It knitted up …
Currently Reading
The library van manages to furnish me with some interesting reading these days. The fiction shelves leave much to be desired, but the creative soul is well catered for by the Orkney Libraries service. This time around I have been delighted by a couple of books that I picked up in fairly arbitrary fashion, and …