knits

It's been raining the whole day today! I woke up listening to rain, and have been looking at it really the complete day; there's been no pause whatsoever.

Luckily our backyard jungle seems to enjoy it.

I've also been working on my ankle socks, comfortably indoors.

See, I made it!

Knitted from acrylic but pretty nice yarn, with 5mm needles, exactly according to the instructions (and of course without gauge swatching - it ended up bigger than the original).

I also knitted the side in a lighter colour, and added some basic cabling.

This is my newest cast-on project; a red scarf knitted to honor women who've died from heart disease.

The garden's starting to look really nice - I'm thinking that we'll get fresh salad and spinach in a weeks time, if the weather holds warm and the snails stay away.

On Saturday, the long awaited knitting group gathered again.  I don't have the transport to the other meetings around the city during the week, so I'm always very much looking forward to this one.

It was lovely, and despite the bank holiday very popular. We were hiding at the Dublin Castle green area again (the cafe was closed) 

Somehow it happens, that on Sundays we drift to the huge American bookstore at the nearby retail park. This time the plan was only to go test whether there's a wifi connection available at Starbucks: apparently that's something they advertise a lot.

Well, they didn't have it, so we just had frappucinos and a piece of cheesecake.

I made it, my first real pair of socks is ready and in use. The new owner seems happy enough to have recieved them (well, he saw me working on them hard), but to be honest they are not the best-made socks I've seen.

I chose the wrong cast-on, made the heelpflap bit weird, and picked up way too many sticthes - and decrased far too slowly to fix that mistake. Did I mention I had too big needles? Or well, maybe not, the airy effect is nice, but the new sockowner is concerned they'll break right away. They might, who knows.

A word (or a picture) of warning to all you out there who won't swatch. Remember my hat I was knitting a week back? Here it is knitted up. Nice, huh? 

I thought it just might be a big too big for anyone, so I simply frogged it.

Now I'm thinking should I try to knit the hat again, or just to use the yarn for something else.

The hat was really fun to make; I actually got a serious knitting need last monday and practically finished it in a few hours. 

I decided I need to Flash my stash too, even if it would be too late. So here it goes!

Since I've been knitting only since last autumn, I guess this is quite ok... and I DO knit from it! 

After a long, long while, I got my hands on a book that really facinated me so much, that I could hardly lay it off my hands during the working day. So, indeed I didn't, but finished this book in 3 days.