A day of varied domesticity
Garden: We have 4 enormous tubs, 3 large pots, and a couple of middling sized pots filled with potting mix and/or various vegetable matter. For the big tubs, I raked up a heap of leaf litter and filled them 1/3 with that, 1/3 with chopped lucerne, and 1/3 with organic potting mix. There’s more lucerne...
FO: Feather and fan shawl
I posted this a while ago as a WIP, but forgot to mention I’d finished it. The shawl is the Icelandic feather and fan one from Cheryl Oberle’s “Folk Shawls”, knitted in New Lanark Mills’ aran-weight wool in (IIRC) gritstone. It was left over from an earlier cardigan. The shawl starts in a fairly standard...
2008 knitting round-up
Here’s what I knitted in 2008: 1. Monochrome afghan, 2. Finished, Yoda is, 3. Scrubby, 4. Gah!, 5. Hot water bottle cover for Erica, 6. Baby socks, 7. Big green cowl action shot, 8. Submarine cable socks, 9. Sock in progress, 10. Cowl, 11. Green hat, 12. Vest – complete, 13. Noro striped scarf, 14....
A finished sweater. I mean jumper. Or rather, vest.
Way back at the start of the year I said that this year should be a year of sweaters, or jumpers as we call them in Australia. I’d tried to knit a couple of jumpers before, but something always went wrong. Now with the help of Ravelry I felt a lot more confident, so I...
Too many socks!
I finished the navy striped socks (photo later, once they’re out of the wash). Then for some reason I cast on 3 more pairs. The first were the Froot Loops, which I started on wooden needles so I could knit them on the plane to England. The second were these Ringwood pattern socks from Nancy...
Environmentally friendly yarns
I want to start using more ecologically sound yarns, so I’m researching what’s available. Here’s a list of what I’ve found so far. All these yarns claim to be environmentally friendly and use minimal chemical processing on the yarn; those that are bolded are organic. I’m limiting the list to yarns that I’m interested in...
WIP Wednesday
Apparently one is meant to post one’s knitting works in progress on Wednesdays, so here are mine. Purple waterfall scarf/sleeveless vest Gave up on this and ripped it out. I’ll never wear it because the wool’s a bit too scratchy. Plus it was too wide and chunky and I was getting bored with it. Instead...
Knitting WIPs and stash thoughts
Well, I set this thing up so I would have something to feed into Ravelry so I suppose I’d better begin. If you’re coming here from LiveJournal (or reading this here, since it’s crossposted) I should probably note that I’m widening my “oeconomist” remit to include crafts in general, so in addition to the cooking...
