I finished up the Catnip Socks this week. It didn’t take very long. They’re a great knit. I delivered the MIL’s Socks that I knit back in February to my mother for her (belated) birthday gift. We rode down on our bicycles. Proof that Mum reads the blog? “I really like the butter-coloured socks you’re […]
It hardly feels like it’s been almost two weeks since I started these. It feels like they’ve been going faster than lightning, but maybe that’s just because I’m doing them both at the same time and the colour is so happyshiny that I don’t necessarily want them to end. Well, I obviously want them to […]
Today Calgary City Council passed the proposed Bike Plan, that will hopefully help get more riders on their bikes, off the sidewalk, and on the streets. While it seemed that three of the aldermen thought it was a waste of time (the alderman for our ward was one of them…disappointing), I was pleased to see […]
I think there’s a reason why Wendy Johnson named this particular pattern “Catnip”. I went looking for the July 2011 sock pattern for the Skinflint Sock Club (no idea if anyone is still following along, but I’m putting the choices up anyhow, at least until I can get back to podcasting). I came across quite […]
It took about three weeks, but Lhiabelle and I finally managed to make it to Calgary’s newest knitting store, The Loop. The Loop is run by Annie, who previously worked (managed?) both Make One Yarn Studio in Bridgeland, and The Knitting Room off Crowchild Trail. Annie’s new digs are a bit smaller than I would […]
Working on the Gush socks (pattern by Yarnissima)…Starting on clue #4. I have to admit that while I was excited to get started, I’ll be happy to see the end of this pair. The yarn is a little *too* “wool-y” for this time of year, and the knit & purl pattern is somewhat fiddly. I’m […]
Amazingly enough, I actually have a couple of quick pictures to show! Yay! I’m surprised, what with a very busy vacation and then schedule crazies at work, but I’ll take my resource photos where I can get ’em. It doesn’t look like much of anything, but that’s because this is a sorta cast-on picture. I’ve […]
One of the ways we like to celebrate birthdays in our household is to take time off. My birthday, in February, was made more interesting by a case of Shingles. Luckily, Robin’s birthday has been eventful in ways that are more entertaining and include 100% less hospital visits. We have had a great week so […]
Don’t forget your towels today folks! A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded […]
…almost literally, in fact, but we’ll get to that in a moment. That, there is part of my year-round self-sock-club. The blue socks are my February MIL’s Socks, the red pair are March’s Shur’tugal, the multicolours are the second pair of April socks (toe-up with an afterthought heel), and the really bright neon green socks […]