January update

I am not quite sure how it got to be past the middle of January. I was so sure that I was going to be a good blogger but I appear to have been anything but. Mind you I have updated Ravelry but that's no excuse for abandoning the blog. One of the problems with blogging in winter is that the light is rarely good enough to take decent pictures. Today it's really dull here so I am not going to be able to take any of the pictures that I wanted to. Grrr.

I do have some things to share though. I am going to try to post a bit more regularly over the next few weeks so will show you what I have been up to. Although I have been distracted by a few things which mean that there has been less knitting than usual. First I have started my Welsh lessons again - I was rather ashamed over Christmas as my eldest nephew was wittering away in Welsh (as you do at the age of 2 and a half) and I could barely follow a word. Time to get on it again.

This is the second distraction:

She belongs to a good friend and we're looking after her for the foreseeable future. She's called Kitten and the name is most apt as no one has told her that she's in fact a rather mature lady. She's taken to her new home rather well and is very enamoured with my stash although luckily mostly to pet gently. She has yet to launch any fully fledged attacks on my yarn basket. Her rather long and glossy coat does mean that all of my projects now include 5% cat hair though.

After loosing my Shroedinger Originals pouch and my yarn, I was still determined to make Wendy's Double Eyelet Rib socks, so I cast on with a skein of Dream in Colour Smooshy.

The colour is Lipstick Lava and I love it. So much so that there's actually another skein of it in my stash as these socks are not for me, they are for my friend Jacqui.

Here are the socks with their pouch. I am being very very careful with this pouch now :)

And here's a close up of the socks. They are really lovely and I think I'll be making myself a pair of them at some point.

Oh, and I forgot to say, these are my first toe up socks and I am very very pleased with the way that they look. The toe worked really well as did the heel. I used the provisional cast on where you crochet the stitches on to the knitting needle. There seem to be quite a few out there - this one seemed to work for me whereas I found some of them a bit fiddly and or too hard to get my head around.

Posted by Amelia at January 20, 2008 10:55 AM