Knitting

Finished the yoke in 11 days, and it looks fantastic, I love how the neckline stitches are curled in to make a collar seam.  Picking up stitches around the yoke was less arduous than I expected.  You practice the picking up method with the centre back join.  I cheated and

Started my Eris cardigan last week, I haven't started a sweater-sized project since the Eternal Sweater for Hubby in 1994.  Short rows with cabling is an interesting experience!  You knit two sides of a U shaped yoke (with a torturous pick up in the middle) then pick up

Finished the Maizy Monkey socks last week: Pattern: My own (picot hem, half-linen stitch heel flap, panels of Monkey lace, ribbing at the sides) Yarn: Crystal Palace Maizy in Stormy Purple from Chris Needlecraft Duration: 28th April to 21 May 2008 Wore these on Thursday, they stretched out once they

My dining room windowsill is the catwalk for knitted objects.  Just outside the window is a line of conifers, then a forsythia bush being eaten by a honeysuckle, like a slow-motion cage match.  The forsythia is not winning the fight.  This is my pair of finished Immigrant socks, and one

Picked up a couple of balls of Crystal Palace Maizy because I was curious.  It is 82% corn fibre and 18% elastic nylon.  The label says you can machine wash the socks without turning them into popcorn, but I will test this for you.  All part of the service! Maizy

Clementine's Baltic Socks betrayed me.  I was knitting with Tempted yarn, did the cuff and heel, tried it on, and it's too tight over my ankle.  Ripped it back, wound up the yarn, and it's sulking in the yarn box on time-out.  I have

I've been having a hard time with the Pirate mittens.  My motivation's in the ditch and it feels like I'm chewing through a haystack in a pair of false teeth.  So I took a colour knitting lesson at Knitty Couture.  I was planning to