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Socks (photo added)Because I am somewhat incapacitated at the moment (broken ankle) my crafting is limited for the next few weeks to what I can do sitting down. Even soapmaking is out for now because I can't weight bear or stand without crutches, so it isn't safe to be dealing with all that caustic soda because I can't move out of the way if it spills.So I am planning to make everyone I can think of a pair of socks or a pair of fingerless mittens. I suppose I could make them for anyone here who wants them too, am I allowed to say that? Don't know that i'm quite ready to put a display ad on the boutique section yet. n |
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Pink socks are started.
Stripey wool is very motivating, you think I'll just knit as far as the next colour, and before you know it you've done another inch or two. These are in K2P2 rib and then stocking stitch for speed (of knitting, not of the wearer!) I wanted a scrunchy looking top to them, hence the chunkier rib. 
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| n |
It's 18:00 now.
This is what I did today. 
Hope to finish it tonight. n |
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| Leonie2 |
Oh wow, that's really good, I like the way the wool makes the coloured pattern for you 
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| Kathy |
My goodness n, you need to break your leg more often!  
It's lovely.
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| n |
Have just knitted another whole pattern repeat, ie three fat pink stripes up to the next blue spotty stripe, but won't get them done tonight, too sleepy. I'll finish the first one tomorrow, and start the second, and then make mittens with the leftovers.
I might weigh them. They are shorter than my usual ones by about 2 and a half inches which is a lot of yarn to save, on two socks. If they weigh less than 50g for the pair then I should get two pairs from the 100g ball. I know it sounds obsessive but the wool is £6.50 a ball, so two pairs would be much better than one. n |
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| Haize |
That stripy effect is really cool! I've not seen wool like that, only mottled multicoloured stuff, with only about 1/2inch of each colour. | ||
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If you look on my blog there are some like that too.
Regia changes every 2 rows, Opal is more random and comes in lots of different colours. This one is called Meilenweit Magico. I got it from www.twistfibrecraft.co.uk although I went to the shop to get it (for Kathy and me it's our local!). I will be back there next week or the week after if you would like me to get some for you. Not sure about colours, but I know they had a blue version too. Let me know. n |
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| paula |
very nice !!!!
wish i could knit, one of those things i could never master 
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| n |
You could!
Honestly. Watch out, Jesse said she couldn't sew and I had her making her first patchwork quilt within weeks. Jesse, photo needed here to justify this claim! n |
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| Lizzie |
That's fabulous wool n - I've used Regia and Opal before (OH has many pairs of stripey socks now  ) but I love that pink.
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| Leonie2 |
Yes Paula, don't ever say you wish you could but you couldn't, not when n's around!
This is a result after just a few weeks of saying, and honestly believing, that I couldn't sew and definitely couldn't make a patchwork quilt. Even surprised myself I did
And n, J loves the quilt, it goes everywhere with her. She'd love to take it outside but I've said no. But in the house she's always got it wherever she's playing, using it as a rug and then she insists on having it to sleep with at night too. It's nice to see it being loved.
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| Becki |
I love that wool
I am absoloutly hopeless at Knitting
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| alison |
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| GREENWIZARD |
they look lovely .....i like pink
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