Blast from the Past

Squee! I have finally received my Bergere de France catalog, the French one. I actually received it yesterday. I had ordered it a while ago, but as it hadn’t arrived, I thought it didn’t go through, because I live in the UK. But it arrived! They did send it as if I was living in [...]

Madli

I have started working again on a lacy stole I began last month. I took a break to start and finish the Seaweed socks that should be off this week to their final destination. That is, if my husband remembers to get a birthday card…
I blogged yesterday about my eczema and how it was preventing [...]

Socks 2010 – Part 2

I have finished the mini Seaweeds! They only took a few hours to make and are really cute. They’re not perfect, far from it, but for a first time adapting an adult size sock into a baby size one, I think I’ve done pretty well.
Baby sized Seaweeds socks!

The picture is not the best, but the [...]

Shopping Spree

When I started knitting again, I had been on a knitting break of about 5 years. And I was in another country. What I knew in the past was now almost irrelevant. The easy part was to (re-)learn to read knitting patterns in English. There are so many great knitting websites around here that it [...]

Socks 2010 – Part 1

My Seaweed socks are finished! I can’t believe it took me less than a month from start to finish. This feat has been achieved thanks to my Little One whose sleeps patterns have become much more regular. I now have at least 1 hour every evening solely devoted to knitting! GREAT! Nothing like knitting to [...]