I can't think of a more inspiring title!
1. Last week was spent doing this.
I hasten to add, this is just one corner of a very full room of yarn.
2. A very kind and lovely person sent me this.
So now I know, I am not a knitter, I am an architect.
I really, really like this book. I can see why some people don't... all the talk of Corgi dogs, Bubble Trails and Dromedary Camels is a little unusual, but it makes perfect sense, and I am now considering my options for the Tour de France KAL with fresh eyes.
3. I had the weekend off. It was my younger son's 17th birthday, and despite the fact that there are only ten days until I have to pack the boxes for Woolfest, I didn't do any work at all.
Instead, I knitted a sock.
I couldn't find my crochet hook (under a Rainbow Heap, no doubt), so I knitted top down, with a 25g ball of candy coloured solid as the accent colour.
I did a short row heel (I still can't quite believe I can do this), and an ordinary Kitchenered toe.
The other yarn?
The main colour?
Well I have been dyeing Adventure Yarns for a while now, and I've sampled them and fallen in love with their almost anarchic disregard for any sense of order, but never knitted a full sock in an Adventure colourway.
So it was about time.
Pretty, innit?
It took less than 25g and I have about 12 m left, so I could have made the leg longer than my standard 50-rows-plus-a-rib.
It's the smaller skein on the bottom right hand side. I need 25g for the other sock but the remaining 50g and the accent yarn will be coming to Woolfest, along with all the others.
Not long now... YIKES!
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