My own stash

I've just added a pile of yarn to my Ravelry stash, having completely forgotten I have it! So my own stash is beginning to look a bit more respectable. I'm going to use up the Stylecraft DK Wool on felted items, as it's a bit too rough for the children's jumper I'd planned. It means I can work my way through the felted patterns I've collected over the past year. I'm not sure it'll felt too well but I can give it a try.

In the meantime, I've finished the bag I was knitting for Lab Rescue, it's just waiting to be felted. It's called Amanda's Squatty Sidekick and I've knitted it in Twilleys of Stamford's Freedom Spirit, a lovely easily felted yarn that I was saving up for a bag for myself.

I've also made a start on the Brea Bag, using the Stylecraft DK in cinnamon, a lovely warm deep orangey/brown.

A gob-smackingly enormous yarn stash

http://mochimochiland.com/weblog/2007/07/the-worlds-biggest-stash/

Socks and sick notes

I've been to the doctor and am on antibiotics. She gave me a sick note for another week(!) but I do very much hope I won't have to stay off that long. This cold / flu / upper respiratory tract infection has lasted two full weeks now...
I've finally finished the Tofutsies Tidal Wave socks for the Lab Rescue fundraiser. I do hope I'm a bit quicker knitting more stuff for them!


Not the best photo in the world but 'twill do for now. I think I could do with some sock blanks / stretchers / whateveryacallem!

SP Question 12

I'm sure most of us have a proudest moment when it comes to knitting. A project or technique that you've tackled and completed beautifully. What is your proudest knitting moment??
Hmmm... A difficult one, this. I was going to say the Shetland baby shawl that I knitted before my daughter was born in 1982. Heavily pregnant, I knelt on the floor to block it! I should have a photo somewhere but I need a scanner...
Or it could be the complicated picture sweater I made for my cousin's son (who very recently graduated in Law in the Cayman Islands!) in 1989. It was an underwater picture with tropical fish, underwater flora, sunken treasure and a diver swimming down the sleeve.
Or perhaps it was the first shawl I ever knitted, for my niece's christening in 1975 (one day I'll get all these photos on here).
And on the flip side? What is the one thing that you can't get right? What is that one project that you've never been able to complete? Or that you did complete but then hid away instantly because it was too embarrassing?
I've never quite got the hang of crocheting. I would like to have the time to try it out properly sometime.
I have a big Aran cardi that I started in 2004 when I first moved here which I'll probably never complete. A smaller version I knitted for my grandson didn't wear well - it was cheap acrylic yarn - so I'm even less keen to spend a lot of time on it. Besides, I've aclimatised to the cold by now!
Last winter I used some cheap acrylic to knit a scarf for my grandson (he was in dire need and I couldn't afford any nice yarn) which very quickly stretched beyond belief and which has now been assigned to the bin!

Socks and Rebus

Knitting these socks makes me think of Rebus, as there was a special showing of some of the episodes with Ken Stott last week as part of the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Season. These are my favourite kinds of tv dramas so we're in for about 6 weeks of it with different authors! Rebus is coming very close to my all-time favourite Morse, because it features the city where I lived for 25 years and which, rather strangely, still feels like home. I love working out where each of the locations are. I've always loved Ken Stott as an actor too and think he's just perfect for Rebus. John Hannah never did cut the mustard in that role!