Gardening Socks

Not a great deal of knitting related things going on here over the last couple of days as we have had a Birthday in the family. I have of course been sock knitting though, that seems to be able to happen whatever. These socks are for my favorite Aunt, my Mothers sister. She is one [...]

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If at first you don’t succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.

Leo RostenUS (Polish-born) author (1908 – )

I spun the Shetland into a fairly fine laceweight.
40 grams gave me about 225m or 246 yds.Now, I did do a swatch but it really didn’t look right. I didn’t even take any pictures so as not to remind myself. This is pretty fine, [...]

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Mega Boots Socks

After posting yesterday as to whether there would be enough yarn to finish the ‘Giant’ socks, my curiosity got the better of me and I just had to see. So instead of other knitting last night I worked on them. Did I have enough?
What was I worrying about? I had a whole 4.5 [...]

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Ooooo…..!

This arrived in the post Saturday
I ordered my copy from The Book DepositoryI also ordered a copy of Favourite Socks but, after waiting a week, they told me they were out of stock. But that’s another story. (I’ve ordered a copy from elsewhere – can’t wait!)
I’m not going to go on about this book, there [...]

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Man (or woman) shall not live by bread alone.

Yesterday during my dip into blogland I noticed that quite a few people are talking about the No Knead Bread recipe that was published in the New York Times. There are a lot of references to it but yaiAnn documents her baking of it absolutely brilliantly here.I couldn’t resist trying some myself. I [...]

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One small step for a knitter, one giant……

Sock !!
After a promising start followed by a slow middle, I’ve finally finished the first of the Red Mega Boots socks for ‘Him’. This sock is huge! It’s not that he has particularly large feet, about a size 6 UK (which is quite small really) but his feet are very wide so he usually has [...]

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Organization

Why is it so hard to be organized when you really need to be and not when you don’t? At the weekend things seemed to be far more organised even if they didn’t need to be. I really got quite a lot done. First I went to town to change something with [...]

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Must be the sunshine

It must be the sunshine or something but I seem to be on a bit of a roll with posting lately. Yesterday afternoon, after trips to the market, bookshop; for a new science book and the dentist, (how many times! Youngest‘ turn this time) I went into the greenhouse and gave it its customary [...]

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Spring?

Maybe.. the rhubarb thinks so..It is such a beautiful day outside today (now I’ve done it, it’ll be raining again by tomorrow) that I just had to go out and take a photo of the rhubarb. Remember how it was a little while ago?
This has always been a great plant. It came with [...]

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Gentlemans Socks

Another pair of socks…In today’s sunshine you would never know we had the most awful storm last night, the wind was frightening, everywhere is flooded. To get into the town we had to drive through water half way up my wheels and they’re not small tyres! At one point I was a little [...]

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