Mystery Socks

A mystery no more! You may remember that Kirsten of Through the Loops worked up a mystery sock pattern for last fall for Socktoberfest – and here it is nearly June. I kept up with the clues, at least on the first sock, right up through week three, despite a very busy Autumn, and then [...]

Belvedere

I attempted an indoor shoot of my new socks yesterday in the afternoon light, but someone decided to be a camera hog: This was actually quite an unusual turn of events. Middy is usually quite prissy & standoffish when I pull out the camera, but since I was using stealth mode (aka the camera remote) [...]

Rivendell

Tessa is my Sis. More technically she is Tad’s sister, my sister-in-law. But, she is the closest thing I’ve got to a sister and if I did have one, our relationship is very like I would imagine (or hope) a sisterly relationship would be. Sis is by far my biggest knitting fan. She regularly brags [...]

Kaylee Socks!

It’s Socktoberfest! How about some socks? My Kaylee’s are finished, and thus also my very first handspun, handknitted project (and it’s been a long time coming)! I know that this is just a tiny knit, and that there are amazingly talented people spinning and knitting positively gorgeous things with their handspun all the time*, but [...]

Socktoberfest – Part I – Kaylee

Never really being a sock knitter until just recently, I have no sock yarn in my stash – with the exception of a leftover ball which may someday become the mate to this one (I don’t know though, I really didn’t enjoy knitting with this particular yarn, it was very string-y, not soft), and the [...]