Well then. Fell off the blogging planet for a little while there, while simultaneously in the real world experiencing SO MUCH fibre and crafting-relating amazingness that now I’m in front of the computer I hardly know where to start. Hello though! How’re you? Good start to 2019 so far? Sooo – let’s kick off with…
Kat’s advent scarf – pattern and project
We-ell, ‘pattern’. This is the easiest project imaginable, and the only tricky bit is also the most fun bit where you get to work out your colour palette. But let me dial it back a bit. Do you have a bunch of half-skeins or third-skeins left over from socks? That amount of yarn where there’s…
Brand new socks for a brand new year (Once upon a sock edition)
Although technically I finally finished these last year (actually, on New Year’s Eve). It took me a solid six weeks to get around to kitchenering the under-toe of the second sock, too, which could be a new record. But here they are, a fully-finished pair of Afternoon Tea socks! Very possibly my prettiest socks to…
Once upon a sock December 18 – sock yarn for not-socks, and a 2018 round-up
Ahh, my last OUAS post of 2018, and shockingly I don’t have any sock progress to show you! Never mind, though, as what I do have is updates on other projects which use sock yarn (those count, right?), plus a little round-up of what has been my sockiest knitting year to date. First things first…
It’s beginning to look a lot like… you know…
Well, maybe it’s a little bit too soon for that (even though Christmas ads have been on the telly since the beginning of November). But, while I am not feeling festive quite yet, I am definitely open to the fact that Christmas is coming. And this year my run-up to the big day is going…
Once upon a sock in November 2018 – yikes!
Yikes for more than one reason, too. Firstly, how on earth is it November already? Secondly, I’ve not blogged for a while and I have MISSED you guys! And thirdly I don’t have all that much sock progress to show you, though I do have some little bits and pieces of sock-related news. First off,…
Once upon a sock in Sep 18 – socks and friends and the Great London Yarn Crawl
Hello! It is the first Thursday of the month again – this time I wasn’t quite so surprised, but it’s still come around ridiculously fast, no? As you’ll have picked up by now, today’s the day of the month where a bunch of us post about glorious, marvellous, never-get-bored-of-them hand-knitted socks. You can knit one…
Launching swirls, continuing cables, and actually swatching for socks
It’s pattern launch day! My favourite day of the month (when did this become a monthly thing? wow). My Swirls and Stripes sock pattern has now gone live over on Ravelry – if you buy it in the next week you’ll get 20% off the usual price thanks to a sweet launch discount, too! As…
Finished project – Swirls and Stripes socks
Do you remember a few months ago I had no socks on the needles, so started playing with mini-gradient sets based on leftovers in my sock stash instead? These socks are the end result! ETA: pattern is now live on Ravelry! I had ambitions to create some lacy or patterned (not colourwork) striped socks using…
Once upon a sock in Aug 18 – Fibre East and ankle socks
Well hello there, first-Thursday-in-August, you sprung up entirely out of nowhere didn’t you? I saw Paula and Steph posting this morning and genuinely thought they’d got the date wrong, until I actually looked at a calendar. ANYWAY, here I am too! Remember last month when I didn’t have any new socks on the needles? You…
Retro Dream socks – pattern launch!
The pattern is live, guys, the pattern is live! Hooray! So much work has gone into this and I am so proud of it. I hope that, if you try it out, you love it almost as much as I do. You can buy the pattern direct from Ravelry here (psst, there’s a discount if…
Finished project – Retro dream socks
ETA: Pattern’s now live! In anticipation of the pattern launch in the next two weeks (IT’S COMING GUYS, I ACTUALLY CAN’T WAIT) I thought it was about time that I shared some pics and thoughts about a pair of socks which genuinely would not let me sleep. These socks were inspired by colour, which I…
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