Category Archives: Knitting Adventures

A Serious Question

I want to know who invented row by row knitting instructions for clothes? Did this person never hear of measurements (preferably in centimeters pretty please!).

I really would like to know who this person is, I want to go find her/him and give him/her a piece of my mind!

But now, the stubborn me is in command, I shall finish this cardigan and pretty soon too. Even if it will kill me!

To help me achieve this, I will concentrate on little things that amuse me:

Aren't they cute?

Aren't they cute?

Maybe, if I find out who the above mentioned person is, I will send him/her one of those cute snails. Yes, it is one  of those measuring tapes he/she obviously didn’t encounter.

You think this will do the trick?

Happy knitting everybody!


Cookie Made Me Do It!

Hmmmm,,, Apple cake

Hmmmm,,, Apple cake

Yes, she did!

She sent me a link to the recipe of this most delicious looking apple cake in response to my request for ideas in my apple picking post.

Thank you Cookie, the cake is indeed as delicious as it looks, even before we let it stands for a day as per the Smitten Kitchen advise.

So delicious!

So delicious!

And I still knit. I had a little issue with my 2009 TTL Mystery Socks.

After I finished the cuffs last week, I thought they are a bit loose but couldn’t make up my mind. So this week I knitted a whole leg before I tried it on and decided it is indeed too loose. I thought what I need to do is go down a needle size and not decrease the number of stitches. I decided to leave the leg and the other cuff intact and start a third sock on smaller needles and this sock really looks and fits much better.

So now I am almost at the end of the second sock on the smaller needle after I ripped both the leg and the cuff I knitted before. photos soon.


TTL Mystery Sock 2009 – Introduction

As I am in dire need of sweaters, cardigans or in more general terms, really warm clothes, I was not sure I will join Kirsten’s Mystery Sock ’09 fun, but after I found in my stash  the Tanis Peacock yarn:

Hmmm,,, the colours,,,, some of them are hiding in this photo...

Hmmm,,, the colours,,,, some of them are hiding in this photo...

that meets the requirement of semi solid sock yarn, and after I swatched last night and got the required gauge, and afer seeing the first clue last nigh, I decided I am in.

Are any of you knitting this sock with us too?

Oh and about that photo, when you rewind a yarn cake pulling the yarn from the center, you get to a stage where the old cake is really thin but it’s still standing, did you ever notice it? It really amazes me every time I am lucky enough to see it,  so today I decided to try and take a photo of it, not very successfully as you can surely see.

And while downloading the yarn photos from the camera I found this photo of Saki and couldn’t resist showing it too:

Aint Saki just adorable?

Ain't he just adorable?

And  now if you will excuse me, I have a clue x 2 to knit.