On the fourth day of December

I had just cast off a pair of socks, and was casting on a hat. Specs: L’s Blue Jay Socks Pattern: Thelonious Designer: Cookie A Size: Large Yarn: Knit Pick’s Kettle Dyed Essentials Yardage: nearly 2 balls Needles: 2mm dpns Cast On: Nov. 24. 08 Bound Off: Dec. 3. 08 Notes: My biggest problem was [...]

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Apparently…

Sock Blockers aren’t just photographic aids. Up until this weekend, that is all I had used mine for – giving socks shape in pictures, then I dediced that the Carolinas needed to be blocked and wow! I have been so wrong. I fully appreaciate the wonder that is blocking lace, but really couldn’t be bothered [...]

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Going to Toronto, going to the Fair

Tuesday we took the kids on a field trip to the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, held on the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition (usually known as the CNE or the Ex – more often in my experience the Ex, strictly speaking the Ex is the late summer fair and midway, but since there are [...]

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Socks: the Perfect Gift

umm… that can’t be right. Aren’t socks the disappointment of every child’s Christmas stocking, ranking right up there with underware and a new tooth-brush? Well, maybe … or maybe just white tube socks… But apparently that isn’t stopping me. I give you 1 (and a half) pairs of gifts socks and plans for others. Lindz’s [...]

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Sock Yarn Doesn’t Count… right?

Because if it doesn’t, I only added one skein of lace weight to my stash yesterday… otherwise…. Saturday night was a Halloween party with friends down Niagara way. I was a pirate and discovered that there are advantages to costume parties with re-enactors, my well used polyester pirate costume was accessorized with C.’s tricorn and [...]

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Third Time’s a Charm

Didn’t work for the socks… didn’t like where the magical mystical tour was going… but I seem to have finally found a pattern that my Fleece Artist Merino Sock 2/6 wants to be when it grows up. I cast on the Diamond Fantasy Shawl (by Sivia Harding) over the weekend, looking for something harder than [...]

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There is too much, let me sum up

1. Spent last week (last Saturday to today) at a cottage up in the Muskokas.  The cottage was lovely, the lake was lovely, but I am so incredibly not a lake person.  Give me a swimming pool (heated) (not to mention my internet address- I will never catch up) and keep the bugs.  I did, [...]

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Sox and Pats

I have finished another pair of socks!  My Noro Kueryon Sock RPMs came off the needles today (yeah!), it is however, far to warm to put them on my feet – but they look great on the sock blockers.  I still have between 1/4 and 1/3 of the ball left.  Overall I was really pleased [...]

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RPM and WPI

I’ve finished the first of my rpm socks. Pattern: rpm Yarn: Noro Kureyon Sock (colour 188) Needles: 2.25mm Size: 63 sts Notes: I really like the pattern, but somehow I keep screwing part of it up… whatever, it looks fine. I was a little worried that I was making them too big, but if anything [...]

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Ssssweet

Finished – My Such a Slytherin socks are now done! They fit great, despite the need to make various alterations because I am gauge challenged. The specs are all in the other post. I still have a goodly amount of the sage leftover (that is from the leftover of three skeins I made a pair [...]

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