Showing posts with label Knitting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Knitting. Show all posts

Sunday, 18 November 2007

Everyday is like Sunday..



Today is horrible, weather-wise, but we need to go out to Sainsbury's to buy supplies for the next few days. Gah. I'm not massively keen on Sundays at the moment, I always leave my school work til today and then usually only do it begrudingly because I have to. Usually I look like this on a Sunday:




Anyway, yesterday I literally did nothing, as the last week has been horrendous for various reasons. I have managed to get Em's stuff finished in time for when Mum comes down for Xmas stuff in a couple of weeks. It didn't help that Benn was in bed all day with a stupid hangover, but at least I got a load of crochet done.


Despite saying I was off socks, after knitting three pairs of the same pattern, I bought this:



It's Ruby Slippers by Jon at Easy Knits. I picked it up at the Stitch and Bitch day in London last week. I also got a free pattern and knitting gingerbread man, which was fab! So these *are* going to be socks, but with a bit of a lace twist, which is exciting. I'm also working on what I'm calling the Cookie Monster scarf, which will be amazing when it's finished.
But first, I have to go buy juice and plan my Year 10 Media Studies lesson...

Saturday, 17 November 2007

Hello!

OK, so I got fed up of using LiveJournal and none of my friends on there are really knitters.. they just don't understand.

I decided to set up this knitting blog, as I am currently a) a teacher in my first year of teaching, b) a freelance knitting writer and c) incredibly stressed/forgetful. So I thought this might be a good idea, in order to keep track of what I'm doing!

I'm tentatively starting to design stuff, but it's very early days, very basic stuff. I live in Brighton, with my boyfriend and the Hamster of Doom, Douglas.

I've just finished my sister's Christmas present and am desperate to start my Easy Knits Sombrero socks in 'Ruby Slippers'... How exciting!!