Moorish Stripe Socks

I finally have a FO, the Moorish stripe socks.
The pattern for these comes from Charlene Schurch’s More Sensational Knitted Socks.  Both the books in this series are great and have so many variations I’m not sure anyone could ever knit all of them, well, it would be possible but still..  Anyway, they made a great [...]

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After a few false starts I’m away.

A while ago I spoke of some Bergere de France, wool and alpaca mix yarn that I had. I wanted to knit the tangled yoke cardigan by Eunny Jang, you know the one. The owners of my LYS are great. Although they had this yarn in many colours, I wanted to knit [...]

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Should have said before

I’ve been knitting the Essential Tank Top by Laura Zukaite from Lace Style.  I didn’t post about it when I first started knitting it because I wasn’t sure if it was my sort of thing and thought perhaps I’d end up ripping it and doing something else with the yarn.  But it seems to have [...]

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A small compensation for the rain.

The weather here is awful. Frequent heavy downpours, cool temperatures and it’s July already. It’s looking very much like it did last year when we had very little summer weather at all.
At least I don’t usually have too much trouble finding something to do indoors! I finished spinning up the Merino multicoloured pencil [...]

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Knitting Calm

With all the gardening ( veg. is all beginning to grow now), end of year lessons (soon it will be our summer break) and paperwork ( why do I always leave the Tax until now?) being done, I was beginning to feel as if my knitting was just one more task in the day to [...]

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