Waaah!

I have just lost a pair of socks.

Yarny goodness (gracious me!)

The other day I mentioned that I had something to write about in that day’s mail. Finally I have time to do so. I took part in a Swap-Bot swap recently – to swap a  Yarn Ball with two other players. The general idea is to  make a small ball of many lengths of assorted …

Purple Needle Eater at 50%

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 …

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 …