Yarn Mistrys

As the title suggests, this is all about socks.

I have been struggling these last few weeks with the projects that I’ve had on the go and nothing has really inspired me So I’ve been trawling the books and the patterns to see if anything catches my eye and in the [...]

... As most of you probably know (from the sidebar), one of my MANY WIP’s is Anupa’s Knee High Socks from Beads, Buttons & Lace

I actually don’t have the book and have been working the pattern from Knit Today….

The pattern is a little odd, in terms that it asks for you to break off the [...]

I’ve been meaning to blog about this for a while, but it’s been so manic around here that I haven’t had time to eat forget anything else.. Unfortunately for me, that isn’t likely to change for a good few weeks…

Ah well..

This most definitely brightened up my boring (work-related boredom, of course) life as [...]

I saw this on Sheep Happens Blog and couldn’t resist taking the quiz myself. Here’s my result:

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Interesting.

This weekend has been pretty chilled after a very stressful week at work… thankfully!

We pottered around on the Saturday, did a bit of food shopping, nothing exciting and then Sunday was a very early start to pick my Sis and then head down to Brighton.

The Dawsons invited Bronte, some of the other mods and I [...]

I’ve been working on these for a long, long time. If I remember rightly, I started these mid year 2006 and finished the first in the pair very quickly. Since then I’ve made a pair for my sis and never quite got round to casting on for the second in this pair.

Well, as [...]

I’ve had a hankering for some proper lace for a long time now. But the problem has been that I can’t really (or shouldn’t) buy anything more for the stash. That’s where it will end up until I can come up with a decent project.

So bearing this in mind, I have not bought any [...]

Finally, Ivy is finished! Yay!

I decided to take my time with the actual sewing up because Ivy deserved all the time and patience that it would take to be perfect.

I finished the neck band mid-week, took a little break and then last night set in one of the sleeves. This morning I set in [...]