Well, there I was, all puffed up with pride and gloating over my TWO new pairs of socks. TWO UFOs ticked off. Then what happens? The Spring Knitty is what happens and…
Author archives: Scattered Thinker
Holey Moley
The task of taking up the floorboards in the train room began yesterday. Today we finished the job off. There was swearing. Loud swearing. The dogs flew into their various hidey holes. I went to investigate. There was a large hole in the plasterboard wall, under the window and above the radiator. This caused, apparently, …
Still rolling…
Still rolling here, more or less. The second pair of socks for UFO-bashing has reached the second toe despite having to give time to more pressing matters yesterday. Hopefully I’ll have them grafted some time today and then return to the patchwork shawl, with my fully functioning glasses to hand. We are carpeting a large …
There is a vacancy…
There is a vacancy at my desk today, and it is me. I am completely shattered. So tired that I cannot even begin to think where to start. Maybe I won’t. Perhaps I’ll just give up on today. In the mail: more sock yarn scraps, these from hilltopkatie. Thanks very much, Katie. One of the …
We may be on a roll…
Interesting times. Flushed by my success in UFO-bashing the Thorfinn socks, I picked up the next project for the lists. The Colors Squared Shawl turned out to be further on than I thought it was. I had all the main pieces finished. All that remained to do was to sew them into place, knit the …
Mama’s got new socks
Oh, the sheer excitement of it. I completed a pair of socks that have been on the needles since Dec 2007! I had half a sock at the beginning of the week and now I have a whole pair, all ready to wear. I’m doing the Happy Dance (new sock variation.) They do not match, …