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FO: Boudica socks

Did the last few rows today. Lunchtime knitting is replaced with lunchtime writing in November and I really wanted these done before NaNoWriMo starts. The fabric is very dense, and I love how the horizontal braids turned out. Yarn: Wooly Wonka superwash BFL sock yarn Pattern: MimKnits Boudica Socks Duration:

Sock race

I am hurrying to finish the Boudica socks before the novelling madness starts on November 1st. One is complete, the second is at the gusset increases. I have learned a LOT from this pattern: * Starting toe-up by knitting a flap and picking up stitches * Correct way to do m1b and

Socks and a destashing sale

The Boudica socks braid has a cable on every round which is slowing me down, this week I bottled out and got a size 0 circular. Five active needles plus a cable needle was twelve points to jab myself and it wasn't pretty. I love the colour of

Myers House yarn store

I wouldn't normally put a yarn store trip in a blog post, but this one rocked. It has been a bad week and Hubby had stuff to do on Saturday so I drove out to Myers House on my own. The store feels like a library, except you

Boudica socks and a Turkish spindle

Started the first Boudica sock, ripped it out and restarted, having figured out the correct way to do the increases. I've never done a sock by starting with a flap and picking up stitches before. It was tempting to just rip it out and do a Sherman toe

FO: Seraphim shawl

Seraphim's done! Did the cast off with a needle 2 sizes up since I tend to cast off tightly. I tried this on when I got it off the needle, and I thought it was small. Then I stuck it in water and it got huge! It spread

Snapshot - September 2007

Reading: Finished a fascinating book over the long weekend: Another day in the frontal lobe by Katrina Firlik, a neurosurgeon. The Weather Warden series by Rachel Caine is my other current read. Finished Ill Wind, started (but not finished) Heat Stroke, and got most of the way through Chill Factor.

Seraphim: Nearing the finish line

18 rows to go on the Seraphim shawl! I am a lace chart convert now, especially since I can see how it matches up to the knitting. Still have to check which symbol is ssk and which is k2tog, but apart from that I'm sold. It's

Bitten by the lace bug

Thanks for your encouraging comments about my lacewreck, I have recovered but there's a lifeline going in every fourth row till the end. I love my lifeline! Started the third chart and the third skein of yarn, don't think I'll be needing the fourth.

Lacewreck

More of a fender bender than a total wreck, but disappointing nonetheless. I had 40 rows to go on my Seraphim shawl when I made a mistake. The fix looked almost passable, and I thought I could live with it, but it didn't look right. When I tried

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