Category: WIP

  • Update on the Tour de Sock

    I posted last at the end of May and, since then, my needles have been busy with socks. It is the annual Tour de Sock competition: six stages of socks, usually of increasing difficulty. The socks are released at intervals of ten days and it is something of a speed knitting competition. Knitting quickly is…

  • Miles of yarn

    In my last post at the end of Blog Week, I mentioned that one of my plans for the next year is to end up with less yarn in the stash. In order to do that, I need a baseline to work from. I spent an afternoon with my Ravelry stash, bringing it up to…

  • Knitting and Crochet Blog Week Day 4 – Colour Review

    So, today in Knitting and Crochet Blog Week is all about colour (search 4KCBWDAY4 to find more colourful posts). What are your favourite colours for knitted or crocheted projects. Have a think about what colours you seem to favour when yarn shopping and crafting. My favourite colours generally are blue, green and purple. A lot…

  • Decisions made

    This was the scene when I got out my stash to look it over and decide what to knit next. Mr H came into the room, took one look at this lot and disappeared upstairs muttering about an early night. There are 364 sock patterns in my Ravelry library, so it took quite a while…

  • Finished and unfinished objects

    The previous post, while full of news, was somewhat lacking in pictures. Let’s see if we can change that. Here are the socks that I finished for Mr H. These are full of firsts: the first socks I’ve knitted for him, and in fact the first socks intended to be worn by a man. They…

  • In brief

    It has been a busy couple of months. Here are the highlights, because I guess it is better to write briefly than not at all. I finished my old job just after a very hectic Christmas We’ve moved house There was trouble with the kitchen floor (but I’d really rather not talk about it in…

  • Two by two, hands of blue

    Apologies to any Firefly fans who are now slightly freaking out from reading the title of the post, but really, what else could I call it, given that I have been making these? These are the Vintage Buttons Gloves by Ysolda Teague. Since the photo, I have completed the other three fingers, with 2 yards…

  • Multitasking

    I have reached a personal epiphany this evening. The one regret I have about having taken up knitting is that my reading time has been so severely cut down. I used to have a book habit the way I now have a yarn habit. (Let’s be honest, I still have a book habit, it’s just…

  • On beaded socks

    You remember my lovely beaded socks? The ones from Tour de Sock. These ones: When I first mentioned them, some people were sceptical about how practical they would be. I knit them anyway. I can now tell you that they are practical, as long as your outer footwear in no way covers any of the…

  • Open Sock Surgery

    It’s official: I’m not knitting any socks at the moment. Be aware that this post contains images that knitters may find disturbing. The final sock on my list of socks in progress was one for a friend that I custom-designed/tweaked to her specifications. It is in the most gorgeous purple yarn from Violet Green and…