Today, despite wearing my thickest hand knitted socks, my toes were cold. This is not unexpected, I have shocking circulation, and my toes and fingers are generally cold. Especially my toes. While complaining about this to my flatmate, I suddenly had a thought. In Favorite Socks (every time I type this I have to go [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 30, 2008
Taking Pleasure in the Little Things
Thursday isn’t my favourite day of the week. It is invariably stressful and annoying, and I dread it all week. The only upside about Thursdays is that they are my Friday. So I have an element of de-mob-happy going on. Mostly, however, they leave me tired; grumpy; and, from time to time, tearful.
As a result other things happen on Thursdays. [...]
October 28, 2008
Question of the Day
Today I am wondering: Why don’t more yarn shops allow you to search for yarns by weight and (although this is less important) colour? I am looking for aran weight green yarn. I don’t care what brand, I don’t even really care what sort of fibre, except that it should be as basic as possible. [...]
October 24, 2008
It Was An Accident!
The downside of being a human is that sometimes you do stupid things. You say the worst possible thing at the worst possible moment. You fall over during your graduation ceremony/wedding/other major event where people are looking at you. You attempt to carry too many things in your arms and drop them. Loudly. Or messily. [...]
October 23, 2008
More Garter Rib Socks
Last night I cast on a new pair of socks. This is actually going to be a duplicate pair. Sort of. I made garter rib socks with my lovely reddy purpley Handmaiden Casbah sock yarn, and I love them. They are so comfortable and they are rather pretty too. As you might remember, I bought [...]
October 19, 2008
Catherine
This afternoon, while watching The Neverending Story, I finished the Catherine socks. I’m very happy with how they’ve turned out. No pictures yet. The camera batteries are still dead, and I am too lazy to do anything about it. I have the Sunday evening blues and as a result, that’s all I have to say [...]
October 13, 2008
Windfall
When I was a little girl I read a lot of quite old fashioned books. Actually, I still do. One of the nice things about quite old fashioned books is the words you find. Either words that simply aren’t used anymore, or have changed in usage or meaning.
For me, windfall is one of these words. Windfall, used [...]
