True Blue

Apparently I have a thing for blue… not that this is much of a surprise (looking at my project page or my wardrobe…). Today, my FO is blue, my WIP is blue, and the UFO I’m avoiding, also blue. But since I am avoiding the last, I’ll do my review of Sock Innovation instead. First [...]

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Overwrought

Seems to be the appropriate title for me over the last few months, but instead I’ll apply it to this FO, which is pretty fan-fricking-tastic in my humble opinion, I think I’ll have to knit a few more of these.  As a side note this was my Canada Day project, Canadian pattern source (okay, Swedish [...]

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Birthday S(tash) E(enhancing) (e)X(perience)

So yes, one year older…which means… what else, more yarn! Saturday I went on one last Toronto Yarn Crawl with M and G, and we introduced my god-mother to the wonders of the modern yarn store. We started with Indian Buffet on Queen and then headed out to Romni (because, it has to be seen [...]

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Socks, Socks, Socks

Everywhere socks! So I’ve just finished knitting the first of L’s Birthday socks (is it just me or are toe decreases one of the knitting black holes…). It looks rather good, actually (yeah). I’ll do the duplicate stitching later today (which is what they grey bits of yarn are helping to mark (they indicate the [...]

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I have FO…

the first in a long while. I just really love this picture… Ace of Spades Mitts Pattern: Alice’s Queen of Hearts Gloves Yarn: Knit Picks Telemark in Cardinal and Black (one skein each 103yds/50gr) Needles: Knit Picks nickle plated dpns, size 2.5mm For: Christmas pressie Size: one size fits… well I guess most women Notes: [...]

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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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