Author: Knitter
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Knitting and Crochet Blog Week Day 1 – The House Cup
So, here we are with Day 1 of the Fourth Annual Knitting and Crochet Blog Week (search for 4KCBWDAY1 to find the other participants). Welcome, if you haven’t been here before. The challenge today is to declare your house and explain what sort of knitter/crocheter you are. The four houses are Bee, Monkey, Manatee and…
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Pre-Blog-Week round-up
Tomorrow sees the start of Knitting and Crochet Blog week but, before that gets under way, there are a few items to blog. Remember the Woolly Wormhead hat workshop I went on a while back? Well, I finished the hat. It’s a beret with three spirals on it. The spirals rather pull the beret out…
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Sitting in the sunshine
Our new house gets so much light. Having lived in a gloomy modern reinterpretation of a cottage for nearly four years (although in all other respects it was an excellent place to live), I am really rather enjoying sitting by the French windows and feeling the sun move gradually across the sky. While waiting for…
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Blog Week announced
Eskimimi has announced the dates of the annual knitting and crochet blog week: I’m looking forward to it. Should be able to manage a few posts again.
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Springtime
It must be spring: I have the urge to crochet. No idea why, but most of the things I have crocheted have been started around February or March. I missed my usual post on the blog on my day-off routine yesterday. Sorry. I was busy. My boy said to me, on being presented with the…
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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…
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Decisions
The best thing about finishing knitting a pair of socks… …is deciding what pair to cast on next. I am about to cover the living room in yarn and pattern books. I’ll let you know what happens.
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Finally finished footwear
This pair of socks has seen me through a house move and the first month of a new job. I’m very pleased to complete them and move onto something new. The pattern had just enough interest to keep me going. After the fourth time through knitting the main chart I can almost figure it out…
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Slippery
A while back, I knitted some slippers. They are cunningly made from a handful of mitred squares, but they were too big and too floppy. They didn’t stay on my feet, so were a bit rubbish in terms of their intended function. I decided to keep them in case I ever figured out what to…
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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…