Poets day

Yes, it is Friday. Yes, I have a finished object. No, I do not have a post about it. Sorry – I have been busy over the way, updating the Sanday Spinners site (don’t go look, as I haven’t pressed the Publish button yet.) In the process I broke my new card reader and now …

FO: Gördes Socks

The Gördes Socks are my first knit from the Silk Road Socks book by Hunter Hammersen. Gördes is definitely my favourite sock in the book, so I was delighted to find that it was one of the first two designs nominated for the KAL that goes with the book. I don’t yet have any good …

FO: Scarf in Random Stripes

This is my third weaving. Like the first two, I made it on the Knitter’s Loom. I cannot quite believe just how long this piece was on the loom for. It turns out that I warped it up last May! I think that my heart was not in it. The yarn had some from an …

FO: Another Clapotis

I know, they are as common as muck 🙂 All the same, I can’t help but love knitting a Clapotis — I think that this may be my fourth, possibly fifth… Clapotis the First was knitted under-sized, in HipKnits Aran silk.  Clapotis the second was smaller still, and knitted again in pure silk – this …

FO: Norie

The Norie hat called to me most loudly from The Shetland Trader’s recent book release. I didn’t find enough in the book to merit buying it but, luckily for me, the Norie is available as a single purchase. The pattern is written for DK weight, and this is something that I tend not to have …

Finish me Off

Some people have Bad Hair Days — I have Bad Head Days, and today isone of them. FDeeling fragile… I’ll keep it brief. No FOs today – I still have a long queue of blocking to do, and need my new card readerfitting before sharing halfway decent photographs. Gordes reached the halfway mark last night …