The socks, they are finished… OK, so it turns out I’m not dead until the socks arrive, so I kept knitting, hoping to take someone else out before I died, and look: I have. And they are not, as you might notice, stripey or in the least colourful. There were a few *ahem” hiccoughs in… Continue reading Sock Wars – Deadly Weapons Done!
Author: JulieD
Thoughtful
This blogpost made me laugh out loud. Then I kept reading and it made me go “Hmm. That’s a brilliantly simple idea.”
Dead
Waaahh! I received an email this morning telling me that a pair of deadly socks are winging their way towards me even now. I was up until after midnight last night finishing Sock1 and casting on for the second. Oh, if only I had remembered to start on Friday…Nah, I still would have been dead.… Continue reading Dead
I FORGOT!
Sweet fancy Moses, that’s what I get for having lots of time. I fill it with other stuff. My days got really busy and I have only just realised that The War is on! Not only have I not cast on, I haven’t dyed the wool. Doh! Maybe we’ll go with cream socks after all.… Continue reading I FORGOT!
Yarnsanity
Did I mention the word “insanity” in my profile? Yes? Oh good. To date I have wound some of my skein of Sock Wars KnitPicks Bare into a small ball, knitted it, frogged it and measured it: about 30″ makes a round of 44 stitches. I reckon the Sock Of Doom will be about this… Continue reading Yarnsanity
Sock Wars Mobilization
Ooo, Ooo, I got my package from KnitPicks today: Bare DK for dyeing and two sets of their new Options interchangeable circular needles. I hadn’t noticed in the pictures that the cables and accessories are a fabulous purple colour. I was predisposed to love them before I ever tried them. I haven’t knitted with them… Continue reading Sock Wars Mobilization
Trekking XXL Handwarmers
Trekking XXL Handwarmers Originally uploaded by jwordsmith. As promised, a picture of my handwarmers. Tell me those people who dyed this aren’t artists. I’m knitting mitt covers for them now, because I know I’m going to want to wear them past the coolth of autumn (which has yet to reach us). I’m happy with them.… Continue reading Trekking XXL Handwarmers
Sock Wars and Trekking Mitts
OK, so the Cyberman Sweater is seriously in the frogpond. That’s what you get for winging the pattern for a style of sweater you’ve never knitted before. Not to worry. I broke out the Stitches software and have a pattern I think will work. At least I know my prototype was cute, if small. It… Continue reading Sock Wars and Trekking Mitts
Lit-Bashing
Just tried to read the Atlantic Monthly fiction issue. What pretentious claptrap: the kind of stuff only read by people who talk about having read “the latest Mailler.”Give me the short fiction in Women’s Weekly any day. At least we know in the first paragraph who this is about and why we should care; “Who… Continue reading Lit-Bashing
Bored With The Internet?
bored_with_the_internet Originally uploaded by jwordsmith. Does this feel familiar?