Molly and the Frog

What a beautiful bank holiday weekend! It's so lovely to have some time off and I am determined to finish the first Bayerische sock. Trying to stay away from the Posh Yarn sale today but the lovely colours up there keep calling me back.
And on a non-knitting note - Molly found a frog in the garden yesterday and bothered it until it croaked off into the pond - at least it's safe there!

Bayerische and Lime

Bayerische WIP #1
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Here is a pic of the current project. Bayerische socks by Euny Jang. They are really fiddly but good because you have to concentrate on them and that takes my mind off all the other crap going on at the moment.

Popped into a new (ish) yarn shop in Kingly Court on the weekend called "all the fun of the fair". Really small but lovely with the cutest knitted cupcakes! Bought two skeins of Opal sock yarn - I like to support!

Everyday a new mag seems to pop through the door so I am busy planning my winter projects :) Loving the "Tilted Duster" and "Luna" dress from Interweave Knits.

Also taking delivery tomorrow of my new Apple Macbook tomorrow - too excited! I actually had a dream about it last night :)

Moonbeam

So here is the finished Moonbeam for baby Eloise. It's so tiny - I hope it will fit her - she's probably grown so much since I last saw her.

I'm now trawling the books and mags I have trying to find a simple tank/camisole to knit up the coral coloured Lucia I have here in the stash.

Any ideas welcome!

Charleston

Just to prove that I am actually working on Charleston here she is in all her glory! I have to wind the remaining skeins now - boring job!

Back to reality

So I am back! What a fabulous holiday we had. The weather was as wonderful as you would expect from Greece in July. Really hot but with that sea breeze that stops it becoming too humid.

Here's the view from our balcony







And the beach:






I also managed to get some projects finished while I was there (well one actually finished).



Forest Canopy Shawl in Posh Yarn Emily

Quick to knit and in the Stormy Sea colour way will be great for the winter as a scarf. I did cause a bit of a kerfuffle around the pool though when I got my needles out. It seems people are intrigued by someone under the age of sixty knitting! I got to educate a few people on the "hipness" of knitting!

Also started and finished one of these Embossed Leaves socks in Vixen Lucia.

Problem was that the first sock took alot more yarn than 50g. Maybe my gauge was completly off. I finished the first sock in any case just to see the pattern emerge.

Next up I am finally going to finish Sadie and the Charleston. But not until after I've been to the shops. Procrastinate? Moi?!

Somewhere in a field in Somerset

So we are back from Glastonbury. It was wet, it was muddy, it smelt bad but it was brilliant!! I had such a fantastic time - watched and listened to lots of great music - much more so than if it had been sunny all weekend.
It is good though to be home in the dry and to be clean.
4 more working days until Greece! Bring it on...

"Working from home"

I am working from home today as I had to take my fluffy puss Molly to the vets to be shaved! All I can think about though is how much knitting I could have got done today if pesky work didn't get in the way! Pics of the new improved shaved Molly to come!

Stash

I catalogued my stash yesterday. What an epic task! I didn't realise quite how much yarn I actually had. Nothing really that I can make much but socks out of though which is a shame as I think I am coming out the other side of my sock obsession.

I have plans to make this with some purple Debbie Bliss Cathay in Purple. Will it work out??

Blue Jay-walkers in progress

Blue Jay-walkers in progress
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Finally finished the Oak Ribbed socks - see Ravelry for the FO picture- and started some blue Jaywalkers in Socka Fortissima Cotton. Not sure I like this wool but it is washable at 40 degrees and I am certain they will be very nice when finished. The colour in this pic hasn't come out completely right - they are "whiter" than this (if that makes sense).

Manna from Heaven

Look what just landed on my desk.....Posh Yarn Lucia in Coral colourway..... Yum yum.

The oak ribbed socks are still not finished .....

Nearly done

The oak ribbed socks are nearly done - really they are... just one more nights worth of knitting and I will be there!

Stairs of justice

So back from France but without much of the sock completed due to a tumble down this flight of stairs. A death trap! I have taken the skin off the palm of my left hand so holding needles is a bit awkward and painful if they slip. Will I ever finish these very simple socks?

Allons enfants.....

Ah la belle France!
We are off tomorrow to Burgandy for the wedding of a good friend. Well technically they are already married as marriage in France is a complicated business - you have to live there for weeks and have a blood test etc etc so the happy couple already married in Dublin last week.

We are staying here and they are marrying here. Simply beautiful. I've never really been to France for any real amount of time. A brief weekend staying with friends in Paris years ago when we were all at university and a couple of French exchanges at school so I'm looking forward to dusting off my francais.

We're travelling by Eurostar to Paris and then another train down which is all very knitting friendly - hours to knit and no issue with needles. YAY!

Oak Ribbed Sock #1

Oak Ribbed Sock #1
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One down one to go! Here is the first Oak Ribbed sock. It looks quite garish just staring up at you from the page but when you put it on the colours really work. I was struck by SSS (second sock syndrome) and was comtemplating not finishing the second but it was such an easy knit it seemed churlish not to finish the pair.

Completely unrelated

This is completely unrelated to knitting but still very dear to my heart. Glastonbury festival line up has been announced here:
http://www.xfm.co.uk/article.asp?id=365561

More Sensational Socks.....

..arrived yesterday on my desk. It looks complicated and needs further investigation but I am revelling in having a new book to work from.

The Oak Ribbed socks are coming along very slowly. I've been somewhat distracted by this book. It's fabulous but it's really eating into my knitting time....

Monkey socks finished

Monkey socks finished
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Here are finished Monkey socks from Cookie A. They worked up really quickly and the yarn was perfect...

Conwy finished

Conwy finished 1
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Conwy socks are finished for Kev. They fit him perfectly and I am a little jealous. It's only the delivery of More Sensational Socks by Charlene Schurch which is keeping me going!

Anna socks finished

Anna socks finished
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Finally Anna socks are finished and the pics are taken.
These were really nice to knit and I really like the way the yarn has pooled into stripes. Bring on Glastonbury to wear them!

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