Confession: I’m a bit of a retrograde purist when it comes to socks. I like ‘em plain… your good ol’ vanilla stockinette kind of plain. Ribbed sometimes, maybe with a bit of stitch detail or some stripes… but certainly not fussy or too busy. And – horrors! – never lacy; lace socks in a northern [...]
The humble sock is probably my favourite thing to knit – they are simple, useful and relatively quick to make. Socks are portable; you only need to haul one skein around. You can make them with subtle yarns or outlandish ones. They can be as complicated or as simple as you like. This sock is [...]
This morning, Himself woke me at oh-my-god:30 to go upcountry with him to a farm auction. Now, I like a good auction… but I’d looked at the photo previews of this one, and not being the one in the family with the blacksmithing hobby, it held very little interest for me. I had no intentions [...]
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