Author: Knitter
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Sniper Shot
I’m not quite sure how, but somewhere in the last 11 days I managed to finish my socks for Sock Sniper. They have now gone to the post office to begin their travelling overseas. The yarn is Smoothie Sock from Artist’s Palette yarns – one of my favourite yarn bases. The semi-solids are particularly lovely.…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Ravellenic Games
I’ve declared my projects for the Ravellenic Games. 14 squares on my sock yarn blanket/scarf – competing in the Modular Relay The Anthracite Cowl – competing in Cowl Jump, Lace Longjump and Synchronised Stash-busting Go Team GB! I’ll post a before-photo of the scarf for proof of progress. Must get on with winding the silk…
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Yarn Along again
This week I’ve had a horrible bout of tonsillitis that left me off work and too sick to knit. As I started to recover, I wanted to knit something very simple so I started this scarf – the Doughnut Scarf. The yarns are all Colinette, from my trip to their factory shop last summer. The…
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End of term
Things have been getting very busy here as we head towards the end of term. My boss has been away a lot (and is in fact leaving soon, but that is another story), so it is my phone that seems to be taking up the slack and ringing off the hook. Of course, it is…
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Yarn along
I’ve discovered the yarn along on the blog Small Things, so I thought I’d join in this week. Here is my picture of what I am reading and knitting. The socks are still the stage 1 socks from Tour de Sock, although you can see some progress from the last post. I’m now up to…
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Back to work
I left you nearly a month ago with the revelation of having discovered mattress stitch and going off to sew together the sweater for my son’s birthday. I haven’t really been sewing seams all that time, although it did take about four days worth of knitting time. Here is the result: And here he is…