Disaster, Woe, a Success and Some Fun
It’s been a week coloured by knitterly disaster and woe – then it improved… Disaster: I lost a sock. Not just any sock. I lost the completed, beautiful first sock of the pink, orange and purple entrelac socks I was making 😥 This is the last picture I have of my lost baby…. “What happened?”, I hear […]
Crazy Hippy Hexasocks
Ben wanted some colourful “hippy socks” for weekend sitting around. He got more “Hippy” than he bargained for!! These are the Hexagon socks from Knit Outside the Sox, the book I showed you in my Ally Pally Post. This book… There are a dozen patterns in this book I want to make but, true to […]
Cyrene: So Many Compliments – I Must Make Another!
I am so pleased with my Cyrene Jacket, I’m resisting the temptation to just cast on a second one! I finished Cyrene the morning I went to the Ally Pally Knitting and Stitching show. Actually, I finished it the night before…then realized I had seriously messed up casting off the collar so got up extra […]
Ally Pally – Fully Laden
It’s that time of year again – Where I shamefully confess (But inwardly giggle with glee) to utter indulgence at the Alexandra Palace Knitting and Stitching Show 😀 I went Thursday, set an overly generous budget and managed to spend most of it! I was bad… I know some of my readers will have gone […]
Knitting Kittens of Bali
This post my contain sand, suncream and a just a little envy inducing showing off. It may also be clumsily typed and badly spelt because I’m fighting the auto correct on my tablet (not as easy to type as at my computer at my desk!) So what’s going on? Ben and I are on holiday […]
Dealing With My Backlog
Do you keep track of how much you spend on knitting? I do 🙁 I’m not going to reveal the shameful numbers but suffice it to say, my level of “sin” has been around the same each year for the past few years – Except last year… … in 2013 I managed to spend more than twice […]
Ally Pally – Too Many Goodies
I am living up to my membership of the Guilty Knitters as I am officially “guilty” of buying too much (again) at Ally Pally. I really needed a good day out and that’s what I had 🙂 So what did I buy?? You know how I need more Rowan Kidsilk Haze like a hole in the […]
Vivaldi Diagnosis at Ally Pally
After posting about Vivaldi not quite coming together right, I took her to the Guilty Knitters for a second (third,fourth and fifth) opinion. So there I was, in the middle of the shopping center wearing half made pieces of Vivaldi with all the Guilty Knitters pulling, poking and tugging trying to make it fit. “It’s […]
Iconic
My “Completed Knit” Icon post could be very short. The word, “WOW” is enough to sum it up!! This dress is such a pleasure to knit and so bang on trend it hurts. It really is an “Iconic” knit. I love, love love the way that you start at the bottom hem and the rows […]
Quality not Quantity
I took a whole day off work last week, met up with 4 of the Guilty Knitters (Hello to Mel, Judie, Glaucia and Jeni 🙂 ) and had a great day out at the Alexandra Palace Knitting and Stitching Show. (Or Ally Pally to anyone from this corner of the Globe) We battled against signal […]
I still haven't gotten up the nerve to steel yet. I need to do a cup cozy first so that…
It looks terrific! The two stripes really look great together.
Looking good ! x
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Really suits you Susan. Looks great. x