The Vanilla Mansock makes progress, albeit slowly. The heel is turned and the gusset is under way. I chose to do an Eye of Partridge heel this time around, other wise this sock is wholly plain vanilla. All the same, I think it may be rather smart when finished – the variegated greys knit up …
Monthly archives: September 2008
Stash Management
The perfect stash storage solution?
Fibrecrafts
I had a phone call this morning. Fibrecrafts said they had received the order but not the CC details. I duly obliged and they said they would dispatch today. I could be dyeing by the weekend! Have done too much keyboards for one day. I’m off to stir risotto. Then it’s Boring Sock time. I’m …
Quackers
Not long after Suzie first came to live with us, we bought her a cuddly toy. I had never given a dog a cuddly toy before and was quite surprised to see how much she loved her fluffy little duckling. She loved it so much that we indulged her with a second cuddly shortly afterwards. …
Monday blues
Mr L is back at his desk today and there is an air of gloom emanating from the office. I have been requested to hang around and keep him company today which rather goes against my plan of knuckling down to some experimentation with paper-making at t’other end of the house. So I shall be …
Turbo charged
We spent a lazy day today. Mr L feels as though he has caught a bug while he was away and is a bit sweaty and leaden-limbed so we did very little. We shredded more paper and cardboard for a third lot of paper logs, played with the dogs, and showed our faces at the …