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Perfectly Matching Ends - Casting On And Casting Off Again 23 Aug 2013 | 02:37 am
Some days in the office I feel as if I am working in Siberia. I'm sure it's a common phenomena, but where I work the Air-Con Wars are particularly fiercely fought with the powers that be craving perma...
Finished Socks And Some Travel Knitting 21 Aug 2013 | 10:30 pm
By the time I returned home from work yesterday I was very much ready to get on with some knitting. This was because I knew I only had something like 6 short row toe rows to complete before I could ki...
Yarn Re-aquainted 19 Aug 2013 | 11:01 pm
After I had thought that all was lost and that I should never be able to finish the mystery pair of socks which I began over a year ago, look what I should find (in a box clearly labelled 4-ply sock y...
Forgotten Knits And The Sock Walk Of Shame 17 Aug 2013 | 04:23 pm
A few days ago I discovered the following exhibit in my sock drawer. It is a single sock of the stockinette variety, knit in multicoloured yarn. I can tell that I must have knit this sock as it exhib...
WIP: The Turning Point 13 Aug 2013 | 10:10 pm
Whenever I knit a pair of socks I find that the ‘turning point’ of each sock is the heel. The heel is the hump day of the sock. It is the Wednesday afternoon point of knitting that, once complete, mea...
Socks And Seascapes 10 Aug 2013 | 04:29 pm
Mr Awesome and I have had a week off work. Time to just relax and spend time together away from the stresses of jobs and feeling that we aren't having enough time just for us. We hadn't planned anythi...
FO: The Wedding Shawl - Blocked and Finished 4 Aug 2013 | 03:55 pm
Every end has been woven in, the shawl has been left for a gentle bath in some lukewarm water and some citrus Soak hand wash and then pinned out - each swallowtail edge point drawn to length an left t...
Wedding Shawl - Off The Needles 3 Aug 2013 | 10:49 pm
The last few rows of the Wedding Shawl have been knit and every stitch bound off. I have added a few hundred beads and changed the pattern slightly to use alternative increases and decreases and to lo...
Mr Awesome's New Hat & New Pattern: The Awesome Hat 27 Jul 2013 | 10:00 pm
I think we have finally found hat Nirvana This winter just passed I promised Mr Awesome that I would knit him the perfect hat after we passed through a very harsh winter where his ears were permanent...
Silly Yarn! 26 Jul 2013 | 09:16 pm
I have bought some silly yarn. Silly in the sense that it is rather frivolous and not something I would usually knit with, but it almost marked the end of a bad few days when things seemed to be looki...
