Saturday 1 September 2007
YAYYYY!!!! I beat the steek!!!
Wednesday 29 August 2007
Mmmmm Back Cherries
Mmmmmm lovely shades of black , light and dark plum.... my latest hank of squishy therapy from Gemini Knits. I just love this colourway its nice to have the last bit of summer. Not sure what it's going to become maybe a pair of modified monkeys.
Etsy is such a great way to find exciting yarns... and it's the little extras I love... plus the yarn isn't mass produced.... It's nice to support fellow forumites in their business ventures too :-)
Yummy scrummy... good enough to eat!
Wednesday 22 August 2007
StEEK-a-longing!!!
The pattern.
Well I signed up for the Angel Yarns knitting forum's steek-along.
Here is my little swatch I have prepared for steeking.
Steek is such a scary word!!!!!.... basically it mean taking the scissors to your knitting!!!. I think we are going to cut down the vertical lines on the front view.
Mega thanks to DianeM for organising it.... there's lots of lovely Fair Isle patterns I would love to do but I'm scared of the dreaded 'S' word!
I know I would never have the courage to go it alone on this one.
It's my first Fair Isle in the round and it was mega fun to do.... and it was great having the right side facing all the time..... I always used to get mixed up on the purl row.
I keep on stroking it, its my newest pet :-D... still can't believe I'm going to cut it up!!!!!
Sunday 19 August 2007
A Middle Earth Birthday for me!
They actually arrived yesterday but I was busy with booooring housework.
First one is Choccy Orange... it's the most gorgeous rich chocolate brown with just a hint of orange... good enough to eat, I'm in the Angel Yarns forum Slim-a-Long.. so choc is sort of off the menu at the moment... when I want a choccy fix I can just have a choccy squish! :-)
and Magnificent Oz... scrummy Jade Green, there are subtle variations of light and dark Jade in this one, the photo really doesn't do it justice.
I also got a surprise birthday gift from Cazza, lovely stitch markers!!! they are so pretty again the piccy doesn't do them justice, the stones are all have different marbling and shine so much!, yet another unexpected gift!, I have made some great friends by joining the forum... it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy :-D
I'm so looking forward to using my new yarns, I'm hoping the dye wizard is going to magic up a few more of these, there seems to be a real shortage of good solid and semis in sock yarn, I must be hard to please, either the yarn isn't very soft or the colours are not as rich as I would like. I'm intending to extend my solids stash really soon!
( sends Cazza thought waves... rich reds and royal blues)
Friday 17 August 2007
More Squishy Birthday prezzies
Postie was late today... was cleaning my bedroom window... (like you do, I was working not nosing) so managed to open the door as he was coming up the path :-D
I got two lovely squishy's ... first of all a lovely squishy from my friend Jo
2 balls of gorgeous Jojoland Melody choccy and a cute Winnie the Pooh card... there was two bars of choccy but one disappeared with my afternoon coffee break.
I just love the pastel colours... I have such a soft spot for Jojoland yarns and I didn't have any in my stash.
I have seen socks knitted with it on the forum.. it makes delish socks.. but I may turn it into fingerless mitts or a mobeius scarf then they will be on display :-D
Designs are whizzing around in my brain... socks , scarf, mitts I really can't decide. One thing is for certain they need a pattern that will really do the yarn justice.
Thanks so so much for a prezzie that is totally perfect in every way Jo xx
Next is from my mother in law.. still can't believe she's nearly 80 and she's been browsing t'interweb. A Regia Creative Knits Journal some dpns and 4 balls of Cygnet Wool Rich 4ply in Mauve and a Charcoal colour. Hubby has his eyes on the Charcoal for some new socks.... hmmm maybe if he's good and doesn't whinge about my yarn spending.
The Regia Journal has some patchwork sock patterns where you knit mitered patches and join them together.. you use a 60 or 80cm circ, I have been practising earlier and it's strangely addictive, and works great with variegated yarns.
I love the Mauve and think I will invest in some Pale Pink or Cream and do some Fair Isle Socks from More SKS . I've been itching to try some.
Still waiting for my Middle Earth Yarns and stuff from Get Knitted so postie is still not safe... poor guy!
Thursday 16 August 2007
Squishy Birthday to me!
Friday 10 August 2007
Summer Peaches finished!
I'm really pleased with how they knitted up... I actually wrote the pattern down correctly. The pattern is in a VERY rough draft..... so messy and full of shorthand, I just hope I can dechiper what I've written down!
Here's the photo I'm going to post with the pattern.... was feeling artistic and took the sock on an oak tree in the sunshine at a camp site at York,
I'm a bit annoyed there's only one, but I didn't bring it's mate camping.
Pattern coming real soon ...... so watch this space!
My latest haul!
Also Captain Jack by Middle Earth Yarns.... ARRRR the moment I saw it I just HAD to own it..( norty wizzy for making such scrummy pirate yarn)
It's Merino/Silk and is sooo soft...I also got a cute little stitch marker:-D
I'm not sure which to cast on first.... but I'm swaying towards Prism..I need a bright socky fix :_D
Thursday 26 July 2007
Green and Purples!
Yarn is my Middle Earth Yarns June sock club yarn... the pattern is by Cazza269. They didn't have a name so I've nicknamed them Green and Purples which is similar to a well known brand of choccy I love.... well yummy socks need a yummy name!
Here's a view on my feet
I love the funky contrasting heels and toes... they are done in Socrates 100% Merino in shade Violet as I was worried about having enough yarn ... and really didn't want to frog right past the heel if I ran out before the toe.
I'm a teeny bit annoyed as I had a fair amount left... but one of these days I've promised myself I will start a Memory Blanket using a different square of each sock yarn I've ever used. Maybe I should get on with it as the oddments are adding up.!
Tuesday 24 July 2007
First 'Summer Peaches' sock finished
The cable is a Double Snake which I had to adapt for knitting in the round.
Here's a pic of it on my foot.. excuse the white ankle!
Slipper sock or trainer liner... the choice will be up to you :-D
I have written everything down I did on the first one... so I will use this to proof knit the second one.. and all being well will post the pattern on here. :-D... so watch this space!
Saturday 21 July 2007
New Sock Design... Summer Peaches
Doesn't it just say walks in the country!
Perfect purples
Its called Sloe Gin and a gooorgous plum/purple colour which fades from dark to light.... I just love this yarn, I'm a huuuge fan of purples.. its BFL and sooooo soft and also came with free stitchmarkers made by the dye Wizards own fair hands which are soo little and cute!
Heres a better piccy of them.. it also shows off the different purples well
Well worth getting woken up for!
Friday 20 July 2007
Oooo how exciting it's just like Secret Santa all over again!!!
Oh wow good post day.... AGAIN!!!!
The bluey mix is Tangerine Ocean.. and that's an alpaca/merino mix.... not sure what it wants to be when it grows up..... but there's plenty time yet.
Pattern for first sock pattern by 'me' going to be delayed folks
Out comes my spare dpns and some spare yarn.. and I worked out by altering the way I did the decreases and yo's for the lace panels... how so much better it looked.... the little lace butterflies seemed to be more centred in the stocking stitch squares. It just looked looooads better!!!!.. and better than that the pattern flowed better. I'm just a lot mad with myself that I waited unitl the second sock to work that out!!
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Catherine who's 10 seems to love them.. and they fit her... so I will make her a present of them :-)
I will still post a piccy when they are finished , but it will be more for learn by your mistakes Fairy.
But the good news is I'm going to redo the socks in the modified pattern then post it.... so its still coming... it's just delayed.
Saturday 14 July 2007
Yay! First ' by Fairynuff ' sock finished
Friday 13 July 2007
Socky WIP's
The first one is my own sock pattern still under construction.... its knitted in Opal Uni shade Turquoise on 2.5mm dpns.... I'm rather pleased with it so far. I love the way that you can incoporate texture and lace into a pattern... inspiration from Cookie A's Monkey socks here... so its sort of a check pattern with the stocking stitch blocks have lace detail.
First lace
Pattern is from Fiber Trends.. its the Flower Basket Shawl and its done in Cygnet Wool Rich 4ply.. quite inexpensive and also frogs rather well!! It's photographed on my skully knitting bag... ARRRR swoon Captn Jack.
I can feel the addictive properties of lace knitting drawing me in allready. At first I hated lace and seemed to spend all my time frogging... then suddenly the pattern just sort of clicked!!... Eureka moment
oooohhhh mega yarn P*rn!!
thought Id brighten the place up with few piccies!!!!!!
Squee my first post!!!!
I just love knitting socks and now have enough pairs to keep me going even if my washing machine broke for a month.
I also love buying sock yarn.... hey who am I kidding I just love yarn... but sock yarn is my weakness.
I'm looking forward to sharing my WIP's , and FO's ( hopefully no UFO's) and will throw a bit of yarn p*rn in too.... the result of my love of S.E.X..
I also love designing socks too.. have a couple of pairs in the pipeline and will hopefully post the patterns for free on here.... gosh I hope you like them!!!
Bye for now!
Fairynuff xx