I have been knitting a bit everyday but haven't posted as my time has been taken up with the garden works. I really must start using my decent camera to take the photos, my telephone is great for some things but it doesn't have the same control and these photos are terrible. I have quite a few projects to post today.
This is the first sock for the
Hogwart's Sock Swap, I'm using Knit Picks Essential Yarn for these socks, my lovely friend in Atlanta forwarded it on to me with some new
DPNs. This is really inexpensive yarn and lovely and soft. I tried very hard to dye some yarn for this swap but I just couldn't match the colours with natural dye. I am using a five stitch repeat on 80 stitches with 2.25mm Susan Bates
dpns. I am especially enjoying knitting in these colours but the match the film colours for
Ravenclaw. I have colourful fabric which, I am going to make a sock knitting bag to send with the socks and stuff. That should brighten things up a bit.
This is my third pair of
Horcrux socks. Not sure why I enjoy knitting it so much. This pair is for me and I am knitting them in my favourite yarn - 50% Alpaca and 50% Merino from
The Natural Dye Studio on 2.5mm
dpns.
These strange things are socks knit from the first yarn I dyed using
Dylon multipurpose dye in Royal Purple. I really don't like the colour. They are very short as there was only 100
grms of
DK in 50% Alpaca and 50%
BFL. I did an after thought heel because I thought I would run out of yarn before I got to the ankle. I think they look like something a witch would wear. My friend Jack rather likes them but she seems to like all my failures and bad ideas.
Lastly I've knit these socks for Heather's birthday. The yarn looked fabulous on the skein but when I began knitting I thought she would not like them at all - she is very particular about colour being an "artist" and decided to keep them for myself. She caught a glimpse of them when she was over on Friday and thought they were wonderful so I suppose I shall have to give them to her after all.
This is the first sock for the Hogwart's Sock Swap, I'm using Knit Picks Essential Yarn for these socks, my lovely friend in Atlanta forwarded it on to me with some new DPNs. This is really inexpensive yarn and lovely and soft. I tried very hard to dye some yarn for this swap but I just couldn't match the colours with natural dye. I am using a five stitch repeat on 80 stitches with 2.25mm Susan Bates dpns. I am especially enjoying knitting in these colours but the match the film colours for Ravenclaw. I have colourful fabric which, I am going to make a sock knitting bag to send with the socks and stuff. That should brighten things up a bit.
This is my third pair of Horcrux socks. Not sure why I enjoy knitting it so much. This pair is for me and I am knitting them in my favourite yarn - 50% Alpaca and 50% Merino from The Natural Dye Studio on 2.5mm dpns.
These strange things are socks knit from the first yarn I dyed using Dylon multipurpose dye in Royal Purple. I really don't like the colour. They are very short as there was only 100grms of DK in 50% Alpaca and 50% BFL. I did an after thought heel because I thought I would run out of yarn before I got to the ankle. I think they look like something a witch would wear. My friend Jack rather likes them but she seems to like all my failures and bad ideas.
Lastly I've knit these socks for Heather's birthday. The yarn looked fabulous on the skein but when I began knitting I thought she would not like them at all - she is very particular about colour being an "artist" and decided to keep them for myself. She caught a glimpse of them when she was over on Friday and thought they were wonderful so I suppose I shall have to give them to her after all.
I LOVE that purple!
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