gathering it all together
The first Twisted sock is completed and I have taken some spectacularly poor photographs of it in today’s dismal light.
I completed this sock twice…
There’s a secret swap going on in the Ravelry group UK Random Acts of Kindness – and I have signed up to it because it has been a long time since I participated in a swap…
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…
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 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 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 …
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 …