René

“Knitting this yarn put me in another time and place, but one that I can’t quite identify. The colour of the yarn is subtle, almost dusky in a way. The gloss is reminiscent of … what… Rayon? It’s almost indefinable, but there is a whiff of Granny’s dressing table about it. Something in my experience, long ago. A memory so distant that I can’t reach out far enough to grab it. Something 1930’s or 1940’s about it. Something that was old, even when I was very young.”

A simple lace scarf…Named for René Lalique… Cast on: Dec 26, 2008… Cast off: 1st January 2009. 2009’s first FO!

SO-called FO

That’s one off the checklist of UFOs for dealing with. I love the textures in this. I have one ball left over and have listed at at Demiurge as available for swaps.

By accident, not design

The blue handspun hat is an FO. I wasn’t particularly careful about the transition to DPNs, and I should have been – because of the stranding on the Sl3’s. Add to this the fact that ball 1 was very different in weight to ball 2, and we end up with a most peculiar hat… The …

That’s very odd…

I have recently been knitting mitts – fingerless mittens, handwarmers, wristies – whatever it is you want to call them. I have always known them as mitts, as opposed to mittens which are closed in at the fingers and have a thumb section… but I digress I had some spare yarn kicking around and elected …

Double Displacement

…meet the Displacement Mitts (still a few ends to tidy up) and…The Blind Panic Hat… or maybe the Double Displacement Hat…

A Finished Object!

The Grreen ‘n Grrowlly version of the #1 Husband socks, in Hipknits cashmere. Not washed and blocked yet.