My poor victim contacted me this morning, as did her potential victim. The socks are in the mail. I’m still a terminal case, but I feel happier about it now that the system is working as it should. But then, I’m Roman Catholic, so you know, I like things to stick to their proper structure.
Category: Passions
All my posts about things-about-which-I-am-passionate-other-than-writing: you’ll find posts here on parenting, knitting, cooking, frugality, the environment, gardening and whatever else catches my eye this week.
Sock Wars – Deadly Weapons Done!
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!
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
Cyberman Continues
Ok, this is a sweater for an 18-month-old (mine) boy and features the Cyberman picture I created (below). I did the front quite quickly. I’m kind of busking the measurements on the raglan sleeves and neckline, but I’m trying to remember to write down what I’ve done. The back went really well. I worked the… Continue reading Cyberman Continues
Sock Wars — Somebody Stop Me
Oh Lordy, I LOVE this idea . I am not an accomplished sock knitter, nor am I lacking in projects, but I like a community challenge, and this one would guarantee me a pair of hand-knitted socks at the end!