Back in March my DH bought me (amongst other lovely knitty gifts) 6 skeins of Jaeger Extra Fine Merino DK in a shade called “Cocoa” - a lovely chocolatey brown. He immediately went into a slump about it declaring “I made a mistake, the colour’s horrible, 70’s sludge brown…and I didn’t buy enough for you to make anything ….”

I, on the other hand, thought the colour was wonderful and immediately decided it needed to be a v-neck slip-over/vest/tank-top (whatever word you use to describe a sleeveless jumper/pullover)…so I started looking for a pattern I liked. I was unable to find anything immediately and so the yarn got stashed but everytime I see a tank-top pattern I dig it out again to see if it would work….I was on the point of designing something myself (never designed a pattern but willing to give it a go) when I saw this post on Roo’s blog.

The pattern is Ms Marigold available to purchase at Zephyr Style

This is it - it’s perfect! So, I hope Roo doesn’t mind me being a copy-cat (they do say that it’s the greatest form of flattery) but I immediately bought the pattern and cast on yesterday evening. This is how far I got by the time I went to bed last night

and here is a close up showing the lovely way the stitches form up - think this is due to the twist in the yarn which is quite pronounced

I am really loving knitting this - it’s one of the most enjoyable knits I’ve had for ages. The yarn is gorgeous, it is so soft and slips through your hands. The pattern seems perfect for it and I managed to do the increases leaning left and right to for this wonderfully neat shoulder section

Doesn’t show brilliantly in that pic - I’ll post a close up later. Overall I am really pleased with it so far, hope my joy continues and I end up with a lovely tank-top to wear to work later in the year over a blouse!

I’ve also signed up to another swap (I just can’t help myself) this one is the Hogwarts Sock Kit Swap 3, and I’m not even a Harry Potter fan (I have never read any of the books although I have been to the films accompanying my Potter fan hubby) However from what I’ve read about rounds 1 & 2 on peoples blogs it sounds like a fun swap and whatever I end up making I can gift to one of the Potter mad people I’m surrounded by.

I filled in the sign up form so I hope I’m in, I was “sorted” into Gryffindor

Get Sorted By The Hogwarts Sorting Hat!

which is good because if I’m to receive a sock kit to make something I’m going to gift I’d want it to be Gryffindor.

MS3 was completed some time ago but haven’t had time to block it or blog it - just pinned it out on the floor of the spare room as I am off to a wedding tomorrow and I am thinking of wearing MS3 …mind you the weather has perversely for a Bank Holiday weekend turned hot and sunny so I probably wont need a shawl.

Here I am blocking it

and here is a close up of the “wing”

Finally, non knitting activity in my house mainly involves my new chickens so here they are -

this is Morwenna a white bantam leghorn

this is Demelza a red mottled leghorn

Demelza made a bid for freedom on Thursday night, I was putting them to bed for the evening and I am trying to get them used to being handled by people but she slipped through my hands and ran off into the undergrowth in my garden…which is mainly brambles through which I had to crawl to get her as it was getting dark and I didn’t want her out there with my cat and the foxes…..

and this is Tegen a blue bantam leghorn

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Once again another weekend in the Wendys Woolies household where our feet didn’t touch the ground and we spent a total of about 2 hours in our own home!

Starting on Friday I headed over to my mum’s near Oxford and we then went into Oxford to get the bus to Victoria Station in London. From Victoria we got the train to Crystal Palace to attend the Norwich Union Grand Prix Athletics meeting at the Crystal Palace stadium.

We had been a little worried in the last couple of weeks that we were going to have to sit in the rain watching the athletics but the British summer seems to have finally arrived this weekend and so we were sat in wonderful sunshine all evening.

The athletics was really good -

This is GB sprinter Craig Pickering getting ready for the 100 metres (our seats were right in line with the 100m start line)

this is Jo Pavey after she ran the 3000m

this is the sprinters lining up for the final of the Men’s 100m

This is Chris Tomlinson jumping his way to victory in the Long Jump with a jump of 8.16

Unfortunately this evening didn’t end the best way, it was Jason Gardener’s final race meeting and the final event of the evening was the Mens 4×100 relay. Jason ran a wonderful 1st leg and then Craig Pickering and Marlon Devenish managed to drop the baton on the change over between 2nd and 3rd legs!

Still, the night finished with Jason doing a lap of honour in an opentop car and then a firework display

Saturday we had a lovely lunch with some good friends, my friend Julia is turning 40 on Thursday so invited some friends and family to spend an afternoon with her at the Swan at Streatley, a lovely hotel on the River Thames.

I’ve known Julia most of my life - we used to go to Sunday school together from the age of about 5 and all through our childhoods myself, Julia and Julia’s sister Alison were inseperable…they were my substitute sisters as I don’t have any sisters of my own. Julia is about 18 months older than me and Alison is a year younger than me so we’re all very close.

The beautiful summer weather felt like it had been laid on especially, we started with Pimms on the lawn by the river,

(Yes I know that’s a pint, we don’t seem to have any good photos of actual Pimms being consumed!)

A wonderful lunch in the restaurant overlooking the river

first the main course

followed by dessert

and then birthday cake

luckily we managed to prevent Julia’s hubby from flinging the cake at her in the manner of the Phantom Flan Flinger…..the cake was decorated with a photo of the birthday girl aged about 3 or 4 years old and the revelation actually reduced her to tears she was so touched

After lunch (actually about 4pm by the time we got up from the table!) we took our drinks out to the terrace

and had a stroll along the river bank

We finally left at about 6.30 having had an absolutely fantastic day - good food, good weather and good friends, what more could you ask for?

With all this social activity I didn’t get to see Clue 5 - and the theme reveal - for the Mystery Stole until late on Saturday evening. I printed it out at my mum’s and then sat with J and my brother watching Hot Fuzz on DVD whilst I started on Clue 5.

I got to the end of the first chart on Saturday evening, then yesterday we were driving back from my mums and, having been away all weekend, I had some washing and ironing to do yesterday so not much more progress during the day.

Sunday evening was the final chapter of my busy weekend and it wasn’t an anticlimax - I got to meet up with one of my blog friends, Roo who writes her blog at RooKnits.

Roo lives in the Midlands but was coming down to my neck of the woods for a training course so we went to pick her up at High Wycombe train station

We drove to the nearby village where Roo is attending the course and spent an evening in the local pub with her. We had a lovely evening and it was so nice to meet someone in person whom I’ve been chatting with online for a while.

Roo was my partner in the Sockret Pal swap, she wasn’t my original spoiler but they welched and she was swapped in to spoil me and did a wonderful job….coincidentally at the same time as the Sockret Pal swap we both took part in an Afghan Square swap and she was one of the partners who sent me a square in that!

However, when I got home from meeting Roo I did manage to complete the final few rows of MS3 clue 5 and here it is

The theme has been revealed as Swan Lake and this final section is to be a “wing”, the pattern is a feather lace

I love this idea of a non-symmetrical stole with a wing-shaped curving end and can’t wait to see how this finishes!

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I spent some time this weekend fixing up the new design on my blog (do you like it?) and tidying up some of the pages.

I’ve added some additional items on the UK/US translation page (crochet hooks and terms) as several people had requested these and I updated my 2007 Finished Objects page. Whilst I was doing this last I realised that I had neglected to blog about the final result of two of my projects and so here they are.

The completed and blocked Melon Pattern Shawl and Clapotis.

The Melon Pattern shawl was knit as a wedding gift and the giftee was really pleased with it so that’s good! Here it is in the garden before it was gifted -

and here are some close-ups

I really love how this turned out and I still have three skeins of this yarn left so I’m planning to knit a shawl for myself.

The Clapotis was knit with the yarn I dyed with Kool-Aid  here is the yarn skeined

wound into a ball

knit up into Clapotis

and blocked

with a close-up

I love the way this turned out and I’m so excited that I took a skein of undyed yarn and turned it into this!!!

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I spent this afternoon watching the Tour de France and knitting up clue 3 of the Mystery Stole - Simpson was helping me

here he’s watching the excitement as Linus Gerdemann went on his break up the Col de Colombiere

(not as exciting as it would have been watching British rider Bradley Wiggins on his 190km break yesterday…except I was at work grumble, grumble, grumble)

Combining two of my loves - knitting and cycling - fantastic.

Here is the outcome of my efforts

I’m really enjoying this KAL and getting the clues each week is very exciting. Knitting something when you don’t know what the finished product will look like is really good fun.

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To be totally honest, I dont remember…..it’s like asking “When did you learn to read?” it’s one of those things that I’ve been doing so long that I don’t remember anymore when I first learnt.

I do remember sitting with my Nan when I was about 6 or 7 and her showing me both knitting and crochet (I could never get the hang of crochet back then!), I imagine that even before then I had probably used a knitting doll to do “French Knitting” or what I would call an i-cord these days

When I was growing up knitting was just one of a hundred crafts that I tried my hand at though. I was fascinated by learning new crafts, I would go to craft fairs with my mum where we would see corn-dollies, or macrame, or needlepoint and we’d look at them, consider buying things and then my mum would say “You could make that” so we’d go back home and get a book from the library, buy some materials and I would “make that”.

Over the years I tried everything - macrame, knitting, painting, scraperboard, calligraphy, corn-dollies….my Christmas and Birthday presents would invariably include “something to make”. I remember receiving a Spears Weaving Loom, a soap making kit, a kit to make cameo jewellery, a Red Indian (sorry not very PC these days) Bead loom (to make headbands and belts) and on one occasion I vividly remember receiving this for my birthday -

It was my sewing basket for years and has faded quite a lot! I definitely got this when I was about 6, I know I was at Infant School as we used to have birthday “show and tell” at infant school where you were allowed to bring into school your favourite 2 or 3 birthday presents. On this birthday I remember I took this sewing basket (which I seem to remember came filled with sewing articles) and a book “Down the Bright Stream” by BB. At the time I was probably knitting as well as sewing.

As I got older I started to get more interested in knitting to actually produce clothes for myself. When I was in my teens with only a limited clothes allowance from my parents I used to make a lot of my own clothes either sewn on my mums sewing machine or knitted by myself. At the age of 16 or 17 my “best outfit” consisted a black wool pencil skirt and white blouse with batwing sleeves and a huge square “sailor” collar and this cardigan which I knit in black

OK so that outfit clearly dates me as being a teenager slap bang in the Eighties!!! This may have been one of the first large garments that I knit for myself although I remember much earlier - aged 11 or 12 - the fashion was for jumpers with pictures on the front (remember that!). I really wanted a jumper which had the Willow Pattern (as in china) on the front and my mum duly got the pattern and started knitting. For some reason she gave up on it and I ended up finishing it. I have a very clear memory of standing in our LYS with my mum buying something and the ladies in the shop mentioning my jumper, mum proudly told them I’d knitted a lot of it myself and then I had to stand there whilst the ladies in the shop exclaimed over how neat my stitching was!

The oldest knitted item which I still have would probably have to be this

I can date this exactly as I was knitting it when I started at University in 1997. The day my parents dropped me off at the house in which I’d rented a room there was nobody else there. They stayed with me for a while but then had to get home themselves so left me alone in the house. A few weeks earlier my parents had been on holiday in the Lake District and my mum had seen someone selling hand-spun, hand-dyed wool and bought a huge quantity of rainbow coloured mohair for me. I had this with me along with a pattern and so being in a house alone I settled down in the lounge with the knitting needles….which is where my housemates found me when they arrived back.

Imagine yourself as an 18 year old away from home at University set for fun arriving at the house you were going to be living in to find a girl you didn’t know but were going to have to share a house with sitting …knitting! They told me later they were seriously worried about who they’d been lumbered with!

Knitting and sewing have always been part of my life, at various times they have dropped into the background or been more important but they’re always there somewhere in the fabric of my life. As a child it was all about learning something new, as a teenager it was practical - making clothes cheaper than I could buy them, and now as an adult it’s again the creative process and learning new techniques. This would explain why I have so many UFO’s, I love trying something new whether it be a new yarn, a new technique or a new garment type but once I’ve learnt it I lose interest and so the item doesn’t get finished as I want to learn the next new thing….

Last year it was socks, they were my new thing and I wanted to try everything - toe-up, toe-down, lace, cabled, felted - this year it seems like it’s lace

…I’ve always knit lace to a certain extent. Over the past 10 years I’ve knit about 10 baby shawls for friends new babies, now I’m branching out into mohair, silk, beads…..So, when did you learn to knit? What was the first thing you knit? Bring it on!!

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Seems like ages since I’ve blogged - so many other things happening…..anyway here’s what’s been happening on the knitting front

First, more progress on the Mystery Stole - clue 2 was out last Friday and I knitted it up over the weekend

I do like the way this is turning out although I’m a little annoyed that though the materials list originally posted stated 1200 yards of yarn apparantly that was then amended to 800 which I didn’t know. So I could have used the cobweb mohair I first wanted to use after all….never mind, if it turns out well perhaps I’ll knit another….or I find another lace project for the mohair…

Here’s a close up of the motif in the centre of the point of the stole with the beads

Next up is Nigel the Nautiloid - he started out like this

then grew to this

and finally he looks like this

very silly I think you’ll agree? The pattern is from knitty.com, knit on 2.75mm Brittany Birch dpns using odds and ends of wool from one of the huge bags I inherited from my Grandma. He’s a possible for an amigurumi/stuffie swap I signed up for at swap-bot. There are several themes you have to work to and one which my partner said she liked was “Festival of the Sea” which he fits nicely.

I’m working on a crochet amigurumi mermaid as well so depending how that turns out I’ll choose which to send.

Finally, I just cast on another lace project, this is a scarf for my mum’s birthday. Pattern is from Victorian Lace Today, yarn is 2ply silk/cashmere from Posh Yarn in Kelpie, knit on 4.5mm bamboo Addi circular.

The scarf is knit with two end borders and a long middle section. This is the first border which you knit across so the points on the left will form the end of the scarf and the edge on the right will have stitches picked up to start knitting up the main section of the scarf.

My mum wears a lot of hand-painted silk and lacey scarves with jackets and tops so I think she’ll like this. Her birthday is the 25th July so I should get finished - she and my dad just started out on the Coast to Coast walk today and will finish on the 26th July. The walk is 190 miles across the North of England walking from St Bees Head on the West coast to Robin Hood’s Bay on the East. I should point out that my family are all hill walkers and we spent all our holidays as children walking in Yorkshire or Wales or the Lake District (and still a lot of holidays now!) Mum and Dad walk at least once a week locally and visit the Lake District a couple of times a year and have done several long distance walks - Hadrians Wall a  few years ago and the Cumbria Way with J and I about 4 years ago.

We’re going to meet them in Robin Hoods Bay on the 26th so we’re getting a weekend away then.

That’s about all I have time for right now - lots more things I should blog about so will post again very soon

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I have started not one but two, yes two, lace projects this past week. I decided at the very last moment to sign up for the Mystery Stole 3, the first clue was posted on Friday and I joined up on Thursday.

For anyone who doesn’t know about the Mystery Stole this is a knitalong where a new “clue” is issued once a week. Each clue is the next chart instalment so you start knitting with no idea of what the finished stole will look like. Each time the designer picks a theme for the stole and one of the “games” is to try to guess the theme as each section is unveiled.

I had been looking at this knitalong a couple of weeks ago so knew the materials included lace weight yarn and beads. I had in my mind the remaining 3 skeins of cobweb mohair from Natural Dye Studio from the 5 I bought some time ago, 2 of them having become the melon pattern shawl I knit as a wedding gift a few weeks ago. I knew I had some seed beads in a metallic pink/purple that would go perfectly with that yarn. However, when I read the materials list fully I realised that the yarn requirement was for 1200 yards and each skein of cobweb mohair is only 200 yards so I only have 600 yards….hmm rethink.

Well, I bought 7 skeins of lace weight yarn from Posh Yarn last week so some of that could be used……I had 3 skeins of 2ply Cumulus (that’s the blue in the middle) so I could get some beads to go with that….

…except the Mystery Stole instructions say that the theme would be best served by knitting with white or black or grey yarn……so back to the stash…

….where I found 3 balls of Patons Fairytale 2ply in white remaining from the last baby shawl I knit. I also had a bag of clear seed beads so I was away. This is the progress at the end of the first half of clue 1 (which was 2 charts) which I had completed by late afternoon on Friday

Obviously unblocked but this looks like it’s going to be a pointed end to a stole - I have knit the remainder of clue 1 now but no photo yet as it’s been raining and dull all weekend (which is why so much knitting has been done).

Whilst waiting for the MS3 clue I decided on Thursday night that I could not resist the call of the Posh Yarn I’d bought and so I cast on to knit a triangular shawl from Victorian Lace Today. I cast on at 9pm on Thursday and knit through House & Shark so 2 hours later I had this

and here is a close up of the pattern - which is the Cherry Leaf pattern

the yarn is Eva 2ply from Posh Yarn in “Houri”. I looked up the meaning of Houri, in Islam it apparantly is a beautiful maiden who awaits the devout Muslim in paradise (please feel free to correct me any muslim readers out there!!!) They are described in the Qur’an as “purified wives” or “spotless virgins”. Apparantly the most appropriate English translation of the Islamic term Hur’in would be “Companions pure, most beautiful of eye” - I hope that my shawl lives up to the name.

It is certainly sensual being silk and cashmere and so light it slips through your fingers. As the weekend was so miserable I got loads done on this shawl and it is now up to 14 repeats so only one more to go before the edging starts!

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First the outgoing parcels -

I signed up for another Magic Yarn Ball swap on swap-bot and have been putting together some goodies for my partner, here they all are ready for wrapping

She is not a knitter and told me she would not be using whatever yarn I wound so just use “something cheap”. Now, as I don’t have anything “cheap” and as I didn’t like the idea of sending something that wouldn’t be used I decided to use ribbon. She is a crafter/scrapbooker and so I think she will use the ribbons, I tied them all together and then wound all the little goodies up like this

and finally wrapped the whole ball up in this gorgeous tea-towel

hope to post this off later this week…….it has a long way to travel and so even though the send date is not till the 15th July I wanted to get it done early.

Next parcel is the final reveal parcel for SP10, now my swap partner doesn’t know who I am yet but will do by the time she received the parcel so even if she sees this before it arrives she won’t know it’s for her and as soon as she does know it’s for her when she gets it then she’ll know who I am anyway……does that make any sense? Anway, basically, it doesn’t matter that I’m posting the details does it?

Here are the goodies

…she isn’t in England so I thought I’d send some English goodies - tea, sweeties, chocolates all from my country.

SP10 has been great fun - I’ve really enjoyed putting together parcels from my giftee and my gifter has been fabulous….which brings me to

Incoming Parcels

My SP10 gifter sent me a gift certificate for Angel Yarns for the last parcel and it’s taken me this long to decide what to spend it on but today my parcel arrived and it contained this -

“this” being Jaeger Extra Fine Merino Aran in Blue Haze, 13 balls of it actually. Angel Yarns had this on sale and I also had a credit from a previous order which, together with my VIP discount meant I had to pay very little to get them!

They are destined to become either Rogue,

Eris

both of these patterns are from www.girlfromauntie.com and I bought them ages ago

or A Cardigan for Arwen from Interweave Knits Winter 2006

I haven’t decided definitely which one it will be as yet….but thanks to my SP10 pal for giving me the means to buy the yarn for whichever one jumps from the needles….

My second incoming today was this

isn’t it beautiful? The gorgeous laceweight yarn I snagged from Posh Yarn this week - from the left 2 skeins of Eva 2ply laceweight 55% silk/45% cashmere in Houri, 3 skeins of Sophia 2ply laceweight pure cashmere in Cumulus and 2 skeins of Eva in Kelpie. The Kelpie was on sale as it is apparantly faulty, having some red on it but it is really hard to see and once knitted into something lacey will disappear completely.

I can’t wait to knit some wonderful, soft, lacey shawls and stoles with these….after my cobweb mohair shawl was such a success (the recipient thought it was wonderful which was the main thing!) I really want to try some more lace but with smooth yarns.

Finally - some actual knitting has been going on. You may remember by Kool Aid dyed yarn which I showed you some time ago? Well, I’ve now wound it into a ball -

and I finally decided what to do with it…thanks to all the suggestions, many of which were for scarves and shawls which is what I’ve gone with, here is -

Clapotis! I think the stocking stitch shows the colours off and I love the drop stitch. I’m making it narrower than set in the pattern (about half the width) and this should give me enough yarn to get a good length. I’m also thinking of adding buttons along one side to allow it to be turned into a shrug. More pictures as I progress.

The stitch markers were a pressie from my SP10 pal in my first parcel so that’s a nice full circle there…..

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….Jasmine!!!

Yes - finally after more than a year she is finished…..so the details (if you’re interested)

Pattern - Jasmine from Rowan 39

Yarn - Rowan 4ply Cotton

Needles - 3mm needles & 3mm crochet hook

Cast on - Spring 2006

Completed - 22nd June 2007

Thanks to everyone who offered advice/help with the crochet edging, DH’s cousin was staying with us last Wednesday & Thursday and she crochets so she gave me some help as well and I did this -

I don’t know if it’s exactly what the pattern called for but I like it. I finished her on Friday evening and was so pleased as we had friends coming over on Saturday to go out for lunch. I pressed her and chose my outfit to complement her perfectly and we set out into the sunshine together. I was planning to have DH take lots of lovely photos of us in the sunshine by the river in Marlow…..then the biggest thunderstorm in memory struck and we all had to run for home …..so here are some photos taken in our garden and lounge

I was so pleased with my crochet skills that I went off looking for something else to crochet and I have discovered Amigurumi and I’m hooked (ha! no pun intended!!!!). I have bags of small oddments of yarn that I inherited from my grandmother, she used to knit toys and small items for church fetes and Amigurumis seem like a perfect way to use up these oddments - and they are just so darn cute!!!

So, here’s my first ever Amigurumi - “Usagi” (Rabbit in Japanese)

He started out as these little pieces -

The head and body I just made two spheres with increases and decreases, the ears were based on the Best Bunny pattern on the Lion Brand website. The arms were just a spiral of 6 double crochets (that’s single crochets in US). He was made with Sirdar Snuggly Chunky in cream from my stash and a 5mm crochet hook.

I’m pretty proud of him…..and he’s been checking out our house (note the new carpet on the stairs - I’m so excited about it)

What else have I been doing? Well, as you can see from the gorgeous new carpet we’ve been doing some work in the house - the stairs, landing and two spare rooms now have new carpet as well as the lovely new paint job we gave them at Easter and there are curtains on the window at the top of the stairs for the first time in the 6 years we’ve lived here! Wow, after 6 years it’s almost starting to look like a home……

I’ve also been knitting a tea-cosy, this was inspired by my visit to The Natural Dye Studio - Amanda had knit this and I fell in love with it

the yarn is Misti Alpaca DK 4 ply which I got some time ago in a swap together with a Mohair loop from Natural Dye Studio whish has been in my stash for ages - and it has about 300 beads. I’ve got a bit further but batteries have run out on the camera so I’ll have to post finished photos later this week, meantime here’s a close up of the beads

I forgot to mention when I posted about the workshop that I couldn’t resist buying some goodies whilst I was in Suffolk - as well as the tea-cosy pattern and the beads I bought some silk and a pattern for a crochet scarf -

and I bought two lots of sock wool and some beautiful soft chunky mohair

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…if you still want to enter the prize draw then there’s a few more days to do so. The draw will now be open until Sunday 10th June (as I had forgotten we are away for the weekend!) so tell your friends/colleagues/family and come donate to a wonderful cause.

There are also only a few days to go on my wedding gift knitting. The couple in question are getting married in Italy on 16th June but will be flying out on Thursday 14th so I need to have the gifts finished on Tuesday night so I can give them on Wednesday…..hmmm

So, the shawl is finished

it’s had a soak

and is currently blocking in the spare room upstairs -

I’m really please with how it’s turned out and hope the recipient will love it too!

Details

Yarn - Cobweb Mohair from The Natural Dye Studio

Needles - 4.5mm aluminium circular and 4.5mm Birch dpns

Pattern - Melon Pattern shawl from Victorian Lace Today

Cast on: 25th May 2007

Cast off: late Wednesday 6th June 2007

As for the socks for the groom - one down one to go

These are South African flag socks adapted from the Gentlemans Winter Sock in Knitting Vintage Socks.

Yarn - Black & Red is 4ply Sock Yarn (80% Botany Wool 20% Acrylic) from Angel Yarns, Green & Yellow is Lornas Lace Shepherd Sock in Coral Green & Sunshine respectively and the Blue is Roway 4ply Botany in Royal Blue.

Needles - 2.5mm bamboo dpns

Cast on - 3rd June 2007

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