Category: Finished Objects

  • That’s a wrap

    A wrap? Well, actually, no – not a literal wrap but rather some socks, a strange square item and a blanket. It’s all about finishing projects this year. I’ve been aiming for one a month and I’m up to date. April came in a few days late, but the camouflage lace socks are done and…

  • Two finished items

    Two finished items

    Last week on my day off I spent most of the day sourcing items for the boy’s world book day costume: he went as Asterix. Here’s the hat. I had to buy a hot glue gun to make the wings. Now that is an awesome new toy. Later in the day, I sat down with…

  • Writing letters

    This month I will be mostly writing letters.  February seems to be the month for committing to writing a real old-fashioned letter every day. There’s Lettermo, which I have joined up with. There is also InCoWriMo. That is, of course, International Correspondence Writing Month. Tagline: One a day, every day, February. I’m following both the…

  • Finished, yet not

    The swirl is finished, at least the knitting part of it. The joy of the final cast off after two years in progress was a lovely feeling. I spent a good hour with pins and blocking wires yesterday evening and now the spare room smells of wet wool, and is likely to do so for…

  • 2014 FO and WIP round-up

    I think most of these links will only work if you have a Ravelry account. If you knit and don’t have an account, I highly recommend it. What did I finish in 2014? Handwarmers for my sister – finished on January 2nd (a late Christmas present Stranded Advent Scarf – finished on January 23rd Socks…

  • Not even a year

    *breezes nonchalantly back into the room as if it has only been five minutes* The Ysolda knitalong from January you say? It went quite well. There were five clues, each with two options, so you could end up with one of 32 different shawls. Here’s mine, ravelled here, and being worn pretty much every day…

  • New Year New Stash

    Why, yes, it has been a long time since the last post. Thank you for asking. First things first: the winner of the skein of sock yarn from the last post… There were three comments qualifying for yarn. I couldn’t decide between them on merit, since they were all good reasons. I went to a…

  • And the winner is…

    Seems a long time since Sock Sniper started, and indeed it is 2 months. Things got quite tense in the last weeks. I had no idea where my third pair of socks to finish were coming from and it was weeks before they arrived. By that point we were down to the final three: me…

  • The state of the yarn

    Looking in my knitting photos folder for September, it looks like it has been a busy month. I left you awaiting the release of the patterns for Sock Sniper. They were duly released and I fired my first shot across the Atlantic, taking a rookie sniper from Massachusetts out of the game.  Not my fastest…

  • 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…