The latest addition to our house hold is this wee ninja …
I think Himself is enjoying this!
Now to make another one!
Yarn Related Adventures
I did it! I have finished the Kai Mei socks by Cookie A in Flambe by Needle Food!
I love the way the increases and decreases make the lace panel swoop up from the gusset of the heel!
I love the way the colour remind me of tropical flowers and large fruit juice cocktails!
And they have Edgar’s seal of approval!
(True colour depends on what light you’re sitting in!)
Now for those of you following along on the Twitter feed over on the right of the page, you will know that I am now completing my Fichu. This may take some substantial time!
Autumn
You know it’s finally here when Daylight Savings ends. What didn’t occur to me (for some bizarre reason) is that this means I now walk home in the dark. For the last 2 nights, this also included rain.
It hasn’t been too bad. It just means that I get home and melt into a warm shower. Though, as I said to Himself, that only stops me being cold. I’m still wet! 😛
Over the weekend we celebrated my Dad’s birthday (*waves at Dad*). Our meagre contribution to the feast was to provide Snickerdoodles. For those that have been hanging around this wee blog for a while, you’ll know that I’ve made these before to great success, and therefore the recipe I’m following is indeed foolproof!
Here are the beautifully cooked, golden biscuits as they cooled from the oven!
So much fun! I do love making a mess in the kitchen!
On the knitting front, I’m at the toe of both my retina searing socks, so once I’ve finished them I’ll model a few shots for you to wonder at their magnificence. You may wish to have some form of eye bandage handy at the time 😉
Until next time!
Progress
In order to achieve more I have decided to get up earlier. This worked well yesterday morning. Today was not as successful, but I didn’t need to run this morning for my daily exercise, as I shall be walking home tonight.
I feel like my exercise regime has fallen off the rails a little what with the enforced rest from shin splints, but I’m looking into getting a bicycle so I’ll have a no impact workout when/if I need it in future.
I’ve been knitting up a storm for the past 2 weekends, making myself a fichu from this pattern to use as a scarf for this winter.
I’m using Lorna’s Laces Helen’s Lace in the Humboldt colourway.
This is what winding over a kilometer of yarn into a yarn cake looks like!
I have finished the body of the piece, and am about to begin knitting on the boarder.
Wish me luck!
Socks!
I did it! I finally finished my latest pair of knee high socks! I’m not sure I can adequately describe just how much I love these socks. The variegations of rotting, bruised flesh accented by the clotting blood is I think perfectly shown off in the entrelac stitch pattern, which I learned specifically to pull these off! 😀 I wanted to highlight the short colourway.
Now for some details;
I used Lorna’s Laces Sheperd Sock in Zombie BBQ. Purchased from Yay for Yarn. I ran out most of the way through when I decided late that I needed knee high socks. Thanks to Kiri for organising me some emergency back up yarn to cover my stupidity! This is the reason for the colour variation at the top. Hand dyed yarn will never look exactly the same, even when from the same batch. It’s part of its allure!
The pattern is Entrelac Socks by Eunny Jang, though I skipped the tassels, and on the advice of some comments on Ravelry when I got to the top increased to 8 stitches as I believe they were designed for narrower calves than mine. 😉
Now for the weather to cool down enough for me to wear them!!!
ghoti industries 