Time to catch up on how life has been treating me over the last couple of months? French red tape has made settling in very difficult. Normal processes seem to take forever and to require sizeable dossiers of paperwork. We do now finally have a French telephone SIM card, a French car, an electricity supply …
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Sometimes I surprise myself
Thorfinn is a sock recipe that I conjured up for myself. It was intended as ferry knitting and has been on the needles for a very long time indeed. It went to town a couple of times, but not very often.
I grafted the toe just on the stroke of midnight. Now all I have to do is to knit the second one and I’ll have one more ball of wool for the blankie…
Stranger than fiction
The Sock and I decided that life is too short to spend hours confined on a ferry and in killing time kicking heels around in town. We stayed home and did a little mutual growth exercise instead…
Catching up
Spinning Spinning was Chez Woolgatherer today. We had the Moist Chocolate Cake and some (not)Mars Bar Crispies for the gluten-free choice. I managed to spin quite a decent amount of my roving before my hand cramped up, and I was pleased with that. There will be something to ply soon! I also did a show …
Stash upgrade
I have sinned and fallen off the stash wagon in a big, big way. Here’s some sock sinning to drool over…
Dream in Colo(u)r
New stash from Socktopus.
“Scrummy yarn. All I wanted/needed really was the Eucalan that came with it today. I just kind of slipped off the margins of the wagon…”