Month: August 2012

  • Sniper season

    Tomorrow is the first of September and that means only one thing, as far as knitting is concerned: open season on sock-knitters. At 2pm UK time, a variety of sock patterns will be released on the Sock Sniper website and I will choose my weapons (yarn and needles) to commence an attack on my target.…

  • Preparing for Autumn

    It is a bleak and windy day. Living on a headland, jutting out into the North Sea, we often get the sort of blustery winds that you expect a mile or so out to sea, when the boat leaves the shelter of the shore. Here there is no shelter, just the sea surrounding us on…

  • Yarnalong

    The beaded socks are coming along nicely. Back on the needles for two at a time down the foot and they should be done this weekend. Something a little different for the reading matter this week. I’ve been reading Linux Format magazine off and on since about 2005 and I’ve been a subscriber for the…

  • Ravellenic Games

    The last few weeks have been mostly about watching the Olympics, which of course means some Olympic Knitting as well, although trademark infringements mean that the Ravalympics have been renamed the Ravellenic Games. The principle remains the same: cast-on during the opening ceremony, cast-off before the end of the closing ceremony. Last time, I was…