The Most Snazzy of Socks
My Yaacov socks were finished a couple of weeks ago – they really are the most snazzy socks I have ever witnessed š I gave you all the techie details in my last post about them here ->> Anti Summer Knitting Slump SocksĀ so I won’t bore and I’ll get on with the beauty parade … […]
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Anti Summer Knitting Slump Socks
As you may have already guessed – I’ve had SKS (Summer Knitting Slump) really bad! Knitting, blogging, even buying yarn all seemed another chore I had to fit in. I even considered stopping blogging ! I think I had been pushing too hard at reducing my WIPs and getting through my queue without stopping to […]
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Whirlwind Update
An exciting, eventful month! Now to catch up with blogging it all….. I had a holiday in Skiathos, Greece (hot, sunny, lovely beach holiday), My lovely sister Carol and her husband Steve stayed in my house and “cat sat” for me while we whooped it up in Skiathos (I had to make sure my tiny […]
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Struggling With Those Sleeves
Time to put on my *Shameface* and confess my slow progress with my Autumn Rose Sweater š³ Can you remember way back to the end of December? I blogged about Autumn Rose here -> Something to Test My SkillsĀ She’s this beautiful fairisle sweater I was going great guns – quickly whizzing up the body […]
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Kitten Mittens
āLeave all your other projects and make those, Susan!ā said Jenny. āI want to see a finished one.ā āAwwwww!!! So CUTE!ā said everyone else at Guilty Knitters (Even the non-cat lovers!!) So what could possibly be so cute and engaging that I would abandon my lovely Autumn RoseĀ Sweater and work on them exclusively? It was […]
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Something To Test My Skills
Clearly I should do something really difficult now as I keep getting blasĆ© and screwing up on the easy patterns. What better than the scary, never attempted before challenge of the fabulous Autumn Rose Sweater? I bought the kit at Ally Pally at the same time as I bought the Nimu yarns for Stripe Study […]
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Spending Too Much at Ally Pally
Oh Gosh – I’ve not blogged for a LONG time Ā – Sorry! Multitude of inadequate excuses include: Very busy at work (All going rather well though!)… Work trip to Budapest, Hungary to do some presentations to the teams out there on what I’m doing (Very successful work trip, fabulous city and OMG – The Boscolo […]
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