I finally got the first Purple Needle Eater off the needles. Lots of firsts in this sock – plenty of new skills learnt. As expected, it is a bit too large. Not so large that Mr plumbum gets his mitts on them, though. 🙂 Very snuggly – will make fine house socks. I may sew …
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A little sock naivete
The sock makes progress. By bath time last night I had the heel turned. It had been a struggle, both mentally and physically. The pattern instructions are laid out in very dense fashion, making them difficult to read, and written in a way that I found moderately hard to follow. Physically working the shaping was …
Ludicrous
A ludicrously late night last night saw us squeezing our one puzzle solution of the day in under the 3am bar, by just five minutes, for a maximum five points. We didn’t even have time to look at the other three of yesterday’s puzzles. Feeling very dull today as a consequence and taking tings very …
Slump
Excuse me while I have a little slump. Yours truly is pretty well fatigued right now. A day’s shopping on the mainland is always fatiguing, but fitting in a hospital trip as well just makes it one mad dash. So much of a dash that I didn’t even have chance to go buy knitting needles …
Progress…
I thought it time I exhibited evidence that the Grreen ‘n Grrowlly socks are making progress, albeit slowly. They are a fine-looking sock. Can you see the difference in tension from the ankle down? Not good. Come hell or high water, I intend to finish these under PS3 Earth. Oh, I CO another project today. …
Making Time
My fibre stash is not decreasing. I need to make more time in which to spin. But how? I was thinking that I need to spin more regularly, rather than having intense spurts that end up hurting my joints. Ideally, I think that I should do an hour a day, every day (or most days, …