Monday, September 19, 2005

Small pleasures

It's chilly tonight. I'm wearing my new socks. :)

posted by Christina @ 9/19/2005 05:23:00 pm 0 comments

Sunday, September 18, 2005

Lots of ideas...

Well, since I'm rather poor and have been bitten very hard by the knitting bug, I decided I'm going to knit a few christmas presents. You may note from the sidebar that there's a Harry Potter theme...let me explain. I was planning on the Ravenclaw scarf for my friend before I started the socks, but then my weird flatmate gave me Griffyndor coloured yarn from a scarf that she failed to make. My young cousins are huge Harry Potter fans, and as they are strange children who don't wear scarves or gloves but like wearing slippers and thick socks, that socks would be a good answer since I should be able to get both pairs out of the two balls of yarn. Neat. The Star Wars scarf is my first delve into intarsia knitting but if I can pull it off, my friend Matt will love me forever.

I will post pictures of the finished denim socks once I can unpack decently enough to locate my camera and card reader.

posted by Christina @ 9/18/2005 03:56:00 pm 0 comments

Saturday, September 10, 2005

I think it's going to be fraternal twins...

Sock 2 is coming 1000% better than Sock 1. I know that this is to be expected, as I am only just learning. But it still makes me a bit annoyed that they won't technically match. I'm just over 4 inches down the leg and it's just...better...than the other one. I think a lot of it may have to do with they way each of them were cast on. I used a more traditional method for Sock 2 and it's proving to be a tighter, more secure cuff. The other sock fans out a bit at the top. Well, I can be sure that the next pair of socks I make will be much better as a pair than these will be.

posted by Christina @ 9/10/2005 06:43:00 am 0 comments

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

The Birth of a Sock



The Birth of a Sock Posted by Picasa

Well it took from Saturday night till tonight. I finished it about an hour ago, but have been arguing with the computer as to the best way to get the pics online. I think that's a fair compromise, but you can't see any of the detail. I thought this Picasa->Hello->Blogger thing would be easier, but it doesn't like posting multiple pictures. Still, it's free webspace so it's hard to argue.

posted by Christina @ 9/07/2005 04:42:00 pm 0 comments

Tuesday, September 06, 2005


My Picture Posted by Picasa

posted by Christina @ 9/06/2005 03:22:00 pm 0 comments

Monday, September 05, 2005

First post...

Well, it is my wish to keep up a knitting blog. This is, however, subject to my life's ups and downs. We shall see.

posted by Christina @ 9/05/2005 04:11:00 pm 0 comments