April 2008 Archives

Today I met up with a friend who brought me a lovely present

A bag for my sock projects

and she was wearing this  

Saffy - a Kim Hargreaves design from Denim People

Another project for the to-do list. It is getting ever longer!

David and I went to see Rick Wakeman at The Corn Exchange here in Newbury last night. I of course took my socks with me and now have the following

Doctorfish from the first opal rainforest collection. This is a collection whcih explores the exotic birds, beasts and butterflies of the rainforest.

Tomorrow I will be posting my goals for May. I think maybe I should give myself a knitterly treat at the end of May if I accomplish them!

For now I am off to bed with my new book.

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One of my goals each month will be to knit the squares for the Debbie Abraham's Mystery Blanket.

I am enjoying the project although I got off to a slow start as I was nervous of making mistakes! Anyway I got going at the beginning of March and now think it is absolutely brilliant.

This is the first-ever Mystery Blanket Club but there will be a Mystery Blanket Club 2 which will commence at the beginning of 2009. I am on the priority list for Mystery Blanket 2, which will be a totally different theme, yarn, colours and everything else from the current one, and it will also be an exclusive one-off design, never to be repeated.

This evening I was lucky enough to attend a Champagne Reception for The Bruce Trust. An unaccompanied Male Voice Harmony, 7-in-a-bar, were performing their repertoire which included songs from the Beatles and the Beach Boys as well as great comedy numbers, songs from the theatre and some beautiful ballads.

A lovely way to end a very busy week but then how pleased was I to come home and discover Kim has officially launched her new book Nectar. My order has been placed and I am really looking forward to the book arriving - tomorrow would be wonderful but that may be asking a bit too much. I am sure it will be with me early next week.

I will reserve judgement until I get the book but am the moment I think

Breeze

will be first on the needles followed "quickly" by

Tender

I have yarn for both in 2 colours so I have to make that decision!

This week-end I am hoping to do a little planning with my knitting. Last year I began the year by saying I would knit a pair of socks a month and I stuck to it.
A few knitters that I know set themselves goals for the month and I plan to do this for May and will see how I get on. To start with they will be small goals but hopefully once I get in to it my goals will grow!

I would also like to give my blog a freshen up but that is a goal I will not achieve quickly left to me as my IT skills are still developing!

Tomorrow we are due some warmer weather so I am hoping I can get some decent photo's of Blithe which I would like to have finished by Tuesday evening - a goal!

Happy Knitting

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Ok here are a few of my single socks

Believe it or not there is a method to my madness and they will all have their friends before long.

My Garden

Well I think these are just beautiful.

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Kim's summer book is coming soon NECTAR. The word is it will be with us Friday and could have some patterns from her spring collection - 0ut of the Shadows. This would be great for the spring / summer knitting as there are several of the designs in this collection that I like.

Especially

Breeze

and I have some denim in my stash.

Blithe is coming along. The front and back are finished and I am almost done with one of the capped sleeved.

As well as a bigger project I always have socks on the go and at the moment there are a few socks on the go. Last year I set myself a challenge to knit a pair of socks a month. I managed the challenge and gave them all to David for his Christmas. So 2008 sees the challenge all over again but I must say I would like to knit more than 12 pairs this year. David's birthday is at the end of February and so I knitted a couple of pairs for his birthday. One of them was using yarn from the Opal Rainforest collection - ladybird. Following these socks I had a request for another pair. I could only get some more ladybird sock yarn in 6 ply and so here they are

Ladybird Socks

A while back I promised a photo of Maggie. I did get to wear her to the races but forgot to take a photo so here she is at the Garden Centre busy knitting

on another sock!

Kaffe Fassett sock yarn

Whilst the husband enjoyed his

toasted tea cake

Happy Knitting

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On the needles at the moment is one of Kim Hargreave's designs.

It is Blithe from the Shades of Pale collection. I am knitting it in the opaque shade as photographed on the model.

I do have photo's on the camera, they just need to make their way on to the computer!

Happy Knitting
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