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March 7, 2023 · 2:14 pm

Project Update

I have been working on some of my projects.

Gingerbread House (Top Left) – I have almost finished one section of the roof and then its just the other roof section. I am only working on this at my stitching group, so it’s months from completion.
Cinnamon Stars (Top right) – I have worked on this for a few hours this week. While watching the movie version of Brideshead Revisited and a new SBS series Vigil. I was watching Vonna’s floss tube yesterday and she mentioned that she only ever uses size 22 needles (regardless of the linen count), so I thought I would give that a go.
I have joined A Bee in the Bonnet’s Golden Honey Sock club, so the yarn (bottom left) is for the first pattern. I have since made it into a ball and started knitting the swatch.
More progress on covering the joins of Miss A’s quilt. It’s physical hard to man-handle the quilt through the machine.

There will be no new projects until some of these are finished.

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January 5, 2023 · 3:16 pm

Finished Socks

I started these socks back in April 2022 (I got waylaid by Miss P’s blanket), had a false start and then tried again and now I have finally finished them.

Here’s my original post, I stuck with the pattern and used the Yarn Harlot’s toe pattern (the 4-3-2-1 pattern).

While waiting for more yarn to arrive for P’s blanket I have switched back to my Covid project, I am on to the dress now.

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December 14, 2022 · 5:27 pm

New Project Bag

I made a drawstring bag for my sock projects. The design is from Urban Threads. I stabilised it with calico, but I should have used something more sturdy as there is a bit of puckering.

I used instructions from Martha Stewart to make the bag.

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May 3, 2022 · 2:35 pm

Souvenir Sock Yarn

I went to Dunsborough for the weekend. It was fabulous – very relaxing.

While there, I bought souvenir yarn (yes that is a thing) from Text and Co – this fantastic store that sells books and yarn (heaven).

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April 7, 2022 · 2:22 pm

Sock Plans

I have started a new sock using Fortissima Mexica in colour 908. I am using 2.75 mm zings.

I have started with a 2 by 2 twisted rib, which I really like, however I cast on 76 stitches (seems too many, but that was what my swatch suggested) and I want to use crosshatch lace, which is a multiple of 6. So I need to drop to 72 stitches. I can rip out what I have done and start again.

Rnd 1: *K3, K2tog, YO, K1; rep from *.

Rnd 2: *K2, K2tog, YO, K2; rep from *.

Rnd 3: *K1, K2tog, YO, K3; rep from *.

Rnd 4: *K2tog, YO, K4; rep from *.

Rnd 5: *K1, YO, ssk, K3; rep from *.

Rnd 6: *K2, YO, ssk, K2; rep from *.

Rnd 7: *K3, YO, ssk, K1; rep from *.

Rnd 8: *K4, YO, ssk; rep from *.

This is what I have from The Sock Knitter’s Handbook by Beth Parrott and Charlene Schurch.

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February 4, 2022 · 2:09 pm

Finished Object – Socks

I finished my Christmas socks! They’re short socks for wearing in summer (it was 39 degrees yesterday!).

The yarn is from Daffodil Road – in the Poinsettia colour-way.

I used my usual needles (Knit Pro Zings – I really like these needles)

The sock is just a rib, heel flap and gusset and a foot. I used Kate Atherley’s toe construction.

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January 17, 2022 · 6:01 pm

Update – Mid Jan 2022

From Left to Right – Log Moderne Blanket, Christmas Sock, Halloween Cat Cross Stitch

I have been working on a few of my projects. Miss P’s blanket is progressing (slowly), I switched to Knit Pro Zing needles and it has been much nicer.

I am on to the second sock of my Christmas socks, turned the heel, so now it’s just the gusset, the foot and the toe (I am maybe a third of the way through)

And finally my Halloween Cat cross stitch is very close to being finished – I just need to finish off the last cat and do the back stitching (there’s not much of that – whiskers and mouth).

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January 10, 2022 · 9:05 pm

Christmas Sock

I have finished one Christmas sock, which I started sometime in December (didn’t write down the date I started).

It’s a short sock, just a cuff and foot and I tried to make the cuff a bit more interesting using a twisted stitch.

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December 27, 2021 · 1:07 pm

Update

From Left to right – Halloween Cat Cross Stitch, Log Cabin Moderne Blanket, Christmas Sock

We went to Rottnest for a few days, and I took a little cross stitch away with me

14 count Aida done in the hand. And it reinvigorated my love of cross stitch, so I have been working on my Halloween Cat (by Satsuma Street).

Miss P turns 18 in early 2023, so I have started her blanket. It’s the same as Miss A’s but in purple shades.

The last is my Christmas sock, which is going to be short – for wearing in summer. It was 44 degrees yesterday (that’s 112.2 for you Fahrenheit people), so you can see why I need short socks. The yarn is Poinsettia from Daffodil Road Yarn. I bought it last year, but I imagine they do something similar every year.

I have tried to do an interesting rib – I used Gaughan’s Twisted Stitch Source Book and did a K2P2 rib, but the K2 has a right twist every second round. I think it is very effective.

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November 23, 2021 · 6:08 pm