Lately I’ve been hitting my ravelry queue even more than usual - planning, dreaming, matching stash yarns to projects - all the things I love to do while I’m chomping at the bit to start something new but not allowing myself to do so due to having the WIP list from hell and trying to […]
Have I ever mentioned how much I loathe knitting on two circulars? I know many folks love it, but as for me, I always feel like I am wrestling an octopus. Everything is flopping around, turning in the wrong direction, developing ladders and generally being a nuisance. I’m far more comfortable to start knitting in […]
For the last days the weather has really been getting to me. In Germany, November is basically clothed in gray - it’s wet, cold, and with the days getting shorter and shorter, it’s also depressingly dark. And suddenly silly old me, whose style of interior decoration usually is more Morticia Addams than Martha Stewart, finds […]
Taking a flashlight picture of yourself…:-)
Nevertheless, the Rogue hoodie is coming along nicely, and as I closed the shoulder seams today, I simply had to try it on and take a picture.
… seems to be one of life’s golden rules which is really difficult for me to understand. Just an example: I want to plant a cherry tree this weekend. I went to the nursery yesterday, found a nice tree and tucked it in for the night immediately on coming home, ready to be planted today. […]
The last days have been so busy that I hardly found any me-time at all. I did, however, manage to squeeze in some light knitting and finished my Pumpkin Vine Socks, which are this month’s contribution to the Sockdown Knitalong.
The Jury is still out on whether I will ever wear them, but I think I […]
I’m currently sick and fed up with socks, so I was looking for something different to knit when I remembered the Lotus Blossom Shawl which I started last November only to put it into hibernation directly after finishing (and loving) the gauge swatch. I’ve been working on it (this time for real) for the last […]
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 […]
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…;-)
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.