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Challenging
I have documented my compulsion to JOIN IN before. I like to join in. I like Knit-a-longs, I like mystery knits, I like themes and I like a challenges (or QUESTS as I have recently been calling them).I...
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Sibell
Introducing my brand new pattern: SibellThey are cuff down socks with a lace and twisted rib pattern. You can buy the pattern here or the Ravelry page is here. I've been working on these for a while, I...
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Van Gogh Sock 2 - Progress!
I've started my second Van Gogh sock! (This is the second of eight I had intended to finish by the end of this year, now extended to next year.) This is the Cafe Terrace 5431 colour, I can't tell you...
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It's not easy being green (again)
I've been trying not knit green socks. This is difficult because my favourite thing is knitting green socks. Sometimes I don't have a choice - publishers SEND me green sock yarn and I HAVE to knit...
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Holiday Hat No. 1
I went to Shetland. It was amazing. I had such a lovely time with lovely people and lovely wool, I can't even begin to tell how good it was!It's such a beautiful place, with it's treeless views and an...
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Una and her especially pretty heels
The Una sock pattern is now available: They were part of the Biscotte & Cie club, the inspiration came from Neil Gaimans fabulous novel Stardust. The character Una gives a glass snowdrop to her son...
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Tombolo Tombolo
When I was in Shetland I visited St Ninian's Isle:It's a tied island, connected by a tombolo - a thin strip of land created by wave refraction. It's very beautiful and very cool display of scientific...
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Halloween & Hats
Carving pumpkins is always harder than you think it's going to be! I'M JOINING IN AGAIN, because that's what I do. This time it's the Woolly WormheadMystery Hat, I've knitted some of her hats before,...
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Carlottina Socks
The Carlottina sock pattern that I designed for the Magpielly Sock Club is now available: The pattern has a cables and texture and an afterthought heel, this pattern is ribbed so it hugs the leg for a...
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Rosaleen Cowl
The Rosaleen Cowl pattern has been added to the Winter One collection.The pattern has instructions for 2 sizes, the small one (in the picture) can be knitted with 175 yards of DK weight yarn. It's a...
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I need a tree
I love Christmas and I love Christmas trees. I just haven't got one. I had a Christmas tree once but I lent it someone a few years ago when we were going abroad for Christmas and I'm not sure it came...
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Talia Socks
I designed a pattern for the Winter issue of Pom Pom magazine, Talia socks:photo©Juju Vail I love everything about Pom Pom, I love their ideas, the patterns, the articles, the design, the paper they...
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Join the CLUB!
This is a bag of socks.That is all the socks from this years When Granny Weatherwax Knits Socks Club. Lovely hand-dyed yarn knitted in to 12 pairs of squishy socks. It's been a great year, I think my...
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Echeveria
Happy New Year!I am working on plans and resolutions post but in the meantime I thought I'd tell you about the mystery sock I designed for the Sock Knitters Anonymous group on Ravelry. The theme this...
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Resolved
I'm really good at making resolutions. REALLY good. I'm not as good at actually doing the things I resolve to do. I'm going to make some for 2013 anyway, they're quite realistic, I hope I achieve them....
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Darkus
The mystery socks I designed for Tangled Yarn have been revealed! The yarn is from Juno Fibre Arts and it's very lovely, I was really inspired by the colour and I wanted to design something dark and...
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Sockupied - Totem Socks
(I'm just going to sneak back in and pretend I haven't neglected the blog lately) The new issue of Sockupied came out recently, I had a pattern published in it which I'll tell you about later in the...
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One hat, many heads...
I was going to blog every week day in April. Then I went to Wales for a little holiday and there was no access to internet and no phone signal. So I'm going to blog every week day left in April from...
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Calla Socks
I've got a pattern in the latest issue of Pom Pom Quarterly - one of my favourite publications.I love the way this magazine is put together; the design and the styling, I love the yarn they gave me and...
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Cover
I was going to title this post 'Don't judge a book by it's cover' or another play on words/cover related pun.But sometimes you just need to say what it is.This is it. The Cover. Of my book.Pre-orders...
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