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Monthly Archives: May 2008

BFF

Just for the record: I finished another pair of socks.

It’s Cookie A.’s BFF socks in Schachenmayr Nomotta Regia 4-ply colour No. 5242. Those have been on my ToDo-list since I first saw the pattern, and like all Cookie A. patterns I’ve done so far, they were a most pleasant knit. But having finished them, I […]

Camouflage? Me?

This was a birthday gift from my sister - she said it was “just me” because of the camouflage colours. I wonder what may have planted that thought in her head. I also wonder what the bottle of Irish Mist that accompanied the sock yarn will do to my sock knitting…;-)

Anonymous Sockknitting

And another entry for the May sockdown on Ravelry:

Lighthouse Gansey Socks by Anne Henson, published in the Winter 2007 issue of Knitty. The yarn is Lana Grossa Meilenweit Cotton Stretch in col. 8006.

Apparently…

… the only thing that gets finished around here currently is socks.

This is a pair of Fawkes socks I knit for May sockdown. The pattern was written by the late Gigi Silva and at the moment is available as a download on Ravelry.

Threadbare

This, my hearties, is my coatee - the uniform jacket I am supposed to wear on parade and for battle. I don’t want to complain, but I’ve been dragging it around Europe for years now and

as you can see, it’s threadbare, patched and almost coming apart at the seams. It’s about time the good King […]