Monthly Archives: March 2008

Sometimes I find a few spare moments and a quiet corner to indulge in some knitting. A friend introduced me to the joys of knitting socks last year – they are small and quick to make, thus extremely portable, more likely to be finished rather than ending up on the unfinished projects pile and gratifyingly wonderful to wear 😀

I have a very low boredom threshold and socks are just perfect for me, allowing me to indulge in my favourite type of textural knitting techniques without years of repetition to finish a project. (I do have a celtic cable jumper that has been on the go for about 7 years). I’ve never been interested in colour based patterns, but love texture and lace patterns. This is my third pair of socks using Violet Green‘s wonderful wool (this one is the gorgeously soft Supermerino/Bamboo/Silk) and my first toe-up pattern using a staggered Fern design with narrow cables (modified from the Rapunzel pattern) made on 3.75mm DPNs, so a very quick knit indeed.  See what you think:

Finished Bamboo Silk socks

I’ve never managed to get the hang of leaving things alone when they are done, so this site is a constant cycle of development and (it is to be hoped) improvement. Having just introduced this blog, the next task is to get my new gallery pages up to show off all my commission work. The problem is that I just can’t seem to decide how best to organise the pictures at the moment, so I keep arranging and rearranging them. I’ll get there one day 😀

Well, I’ve finally found a moment to get the blog up and running, so you can look forward to regular bursts of verbal outpourings 😉

I just about managed to get my February newsletter out on Friday night, before it became March and not aided by my PC deciding to crash for no apparent reason before I had saved it. Fortunately, most of the content was sufficiently fresh in my mind to enable me to rewrite it without too much delay, but that is part of the reason that the newsletter is a little briefer (and possibly more terse) than usual.

I’ve just returned from a manic weekend, which involved a round trip via Glastonbury, Birmingham and London. I drove through some 15 counties by my reckoning, 14 of them today, so I am exhausted. A most enjoyable weekend, though, as it involved seeing good friends, the entire family, some shopping (a bit of business) and two Sunday lunches.