Island Living…

Thai curry for tea and a neauty parlour in my own bathroom…

News of knititng, and of work to come.

Socktoberfest 2008

Socktoberfest 2008 was my first Socktoberfest, but it will not be the last. I found it useful to have a supportive community available to help me through those UFOs.

For my first Socktoberfest I set dual goals. I wanted to learn to knit Magic Loop socks, and I needed to complete at least the Vanilla Mansocks and the Grreen and Grrowllies…

This is what knitting is for…

How quick was that? www.mazzmatazz.co.uk – Adipose Check out the Ood, too. I rather like the Face of Boe… …knitted TARDIS, anybody?

Currently Reading

The library van manages to furnish me with some interesting reading these days. The fiction shelves leave much to be desired, but the creative soul is well catered for by the Orkney Libraries service. This time around I have been delighted by a couple of books that I picked up in fairly arbitrary fashion, and …

Knitty: Winter 2007 – Abotanicity

This is total genius. Absolutely amazing. I so want to do it. But I’m much too fat to wear something like this: Knitty: Winter 2007 – Abotanicity Imagine that – knit in one piece. No seams. No ends to darn in. And from sock yarn!