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I found this multi-coloured yarn on sale, and thought I'd buy a couple of skeins for a small project. Now that my aches and pains are back to a more normal level, following the intensive bouts of acupuncture I went through in September, I am tentatively doing a bit of knitting - tis the season after all ( Read more... )

Yesterday I found this piece of almost done work from last winter. It was lying by my yarn stash, and I decided to finish it and give the fingerless gloves to S on her 15th birthday on September 1st.


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I'm home with a stomach infection of some kind today, and bored to tears. I've been knitting, and will probably knit some more. I made a loose sleeve thing - it's a close fitting tube for my arm made from thick woolen yarn, 65% regular wool and 35% alpaca (which is wool from a llama I think), and the pattern is a double rib pattern (knit 2, purl 2 ( Read more... )