Overflowing knitting basket vs overflowing overdraft…
My knitting basket has issues. I listened to the Franklin Habit post on an early edition of Cast On the other day. He talks about your ‘stash’ growing and coming alive in your house and I think I definately believe that a similar thing is happening in my house.I have three storage places for my [...]
Socks socks socks
I now have one finished Cascade 220 green sock, one half finished Opal tiger sock and one half finished Trekking blue stripe sock.The tiger sock is fantastic – I want to knit that one and only that one but the blue socks are a birthday present for my dad (Thursday next week is the deadline) [...]
Pink Sock day
Yesterday was the day of pink socks. I finally finished sock numero uno and by the evening had forged ahead to sock number two!This is a really HUGE deal for me – it’s my first pair of socks I have knitted for ME. It’s also the first pair of socks I have knitted fully on [...]
Self Control – I do have it!
I actually entered a yarn shop today and only came out with a magazine and 1 ball of wool (pauses for shocked gasps of breath).I did check my forehead for a temperature but no, I must just have started the year off in a more reserved way!It was a particularly lovely magazine though – Interweave [...]
Knitting Podcasts
Okay, one more post for today then I shall bother you no more I promise (unless it’s to post the pics I promised that is!).Another part of my New Years activity so far this year has been catching up with my podcasts. I subscribe to MANY and I mean MANY! I have a podcast problem. [...]
Happy New Year
Well, the rush and stress of Christmas passed and left our household with a quiet almost odd lack of Christmas-ness. I am usually THE Christmas person, I start singing Christmas songs around September, the house is decorated and the tree is up by December the 1st and I do everything I can to get my [...]
