Yarn Mistrys

Warning: Picture heavy post!
This week has been pretty busy and exhausting, hence the lack of posts.

I started off the week in the office and then ended up on the road for the latter half of it. A convention in London for people in the Information Security was cool.. Ollie and I went [...]

Lots of people were talking about the first Sensational Knitted Socks when I first ventured into the knitting my own socks arena.

I only decided to knit socks because it felt like the next step to take in my knitting agenda. I’d moved from crochet on to knitting and that was straight into something that [...]

.. muppet. Who also suffers from stalkerish obsession.

It started in December 2006. I found on someones blogroll, an entry for Yarn Harlot.

I read the last few entries and I laughed. I cam back and read some of her next entries and I laughed again.
This laughing and enjoying triggered some kind of obsession [...]

I decided that the projects that I have on the needles aren’t really all that exciting… , fun, creative, are great, but just not for me at the moment…

I’ve been buying patterns instead of plodding along, and have found that I want to re-assign part of my stash from the project that I originally bought [...]

I was right!

I said I would finish Cairi’s Sweetheart Socks before the long weekend was over… and I have!

Another Project to add to the list of finished items… I’m really, really pleased with these. Like I said before, the pattern is so, so easy to follow because it’s so clearly written. [...]

... Cairi has set up a ZephrStyle KAL and started work on a Green Gable…

As it was turning out a little too big for her, I volunteered to take it off her hands in exchange for the same amount of yarn that she purchased to make it.

It turned up this morning in the post!!

Apologies for [...]

Socks seem to be the easiest thing to pick up and work one and then put down. Having finished Ollie’s socks, I decided that I needed to work on either one of the Cookie A patterns which I purchased, or Bronte’s Cairi’s Sweetheart Socks pattern.

I chose the later and had a moment of crisis [...]

This is some fantastic news..! For me anyway.. oh and for Ollie…

I finished the Carola Socks last night and Ollie put them on straight away… he’s still wearing them! Now that is a fantastic compliment…

Here are the piccies:

and the other foot:

Yarn: Angel Yarns Sock Yarn in Minx
Pattern: From a [...]

... I walked into work yesterday, after lunch having been in a meeting and then down the pub and one of the ladies said:

‘I have something in the boot of my car that you might be interested in. Remind me to show you later.’

Now, I’m not one to get all unnecessarily excited about things, [...]