Ah, slippers. I don’t own any but I really could do with some. In fact I should like two pairs – one for use in the van and one for the house, where we have cold stone-flagged floors. I have been a barefoot girl all of my life so this desire for slippers is a …
Tag archives: socks
6KCBWDAY7 | All at sea
Day 7 of Knit Crochet Blog Week and I am all at sea with my knitting 6KCBWDAY7
What comes after an Indian Summer?
Finished items! These are socks from Silk Road Socks. I had planned to knit my way through the entire book, one design per month and one after another. I have just completed my July 2011 socks, so I am a very long way behind. I will however get there in the end! The sooner, the …
FO: Mood
Time to start catching up with some FO posts, I think! My second pair of socks from the Silk Road Socks book. Knitted from an unusually heavy yarn, for me. Mood (sometimes spelled Muud or Moud) is a small town in eastern Iran. The town has a long textile history, and rugs from the area …
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: Mingus by CookieA
I do love a Cookie.A sock, but my, they can take some knitting time! These Mingus socks began life in August 2008… and came to fruition this week. To be fair, I think I did not have my full set of sock knitting skills at the time that I began them. I do recall that …