Habitat

Hello to my abundant readers ;)

I hope you are all having nice Saturdays. Mine is decent enough; so far today I've been through an incredibly tiring workout and a large mug of coffee. I am soon going to make a gigantic omelette and in the meantime I am playing Wordfeud with my mother and listening to Belle and Sebastian. Nice relaxing Saturday, and in the evening I am going to a friend's birthday party, so it looks like I may have to bake some brownies.

But of course, the reason I'm writing, is that I finished yet another project (I'm on fire, it seems). A few weeks ago I caved in and bought two skeins of madelinetosh dk weight, after a very long time of not buying internet yarn! I quickly decided that one of the skeins must turn into the Habitat hat. I knew that this yarn would translate excellently into cables, and the colour was so pretty I needed to wear it on my head (if that makes sense)..I have needed a green hat for a long time. I'm a green junkie! It's just the nicest colour in the wooooooorld... or at least the nicest colour that goes with my colouring.

So, I made this hat in record speed. It was just so fun to knit! And today, since it is Saturday, I was able to have a photoshoot with myself (I'm not a fun model to shoot, though) outside. Just armlength pictures, and I stupidly hoped for some decent portraits, but sadly I suffer from Permanent Bitchface, so no such luck. ;) Here are the pictures, anyway.







Well, thanks for reading. Keep having nice Saturdays :)

Socks.

I recently finished my Noro knock-off socks, so I thought I might show my reader(s)! I also decided to take better pictures of my newest Jaywalker socks, so there will be a bonus.

The wall in my room is perfect for socks, really. I just have to lie in bed and wave my feet in the air. An activity I quite enjoy, actually.

Anyway.

Anyway.

Anyway...

As I wrote in my last post, I knit these new socks with a yarn from Garnstudio called Drops Delight, and I unfortunately don't think I will buy it again. It is, sadly, too fuzzy, and a bit itchy, too uneven...quite like Noro itself, actually, nudge nudge wink wink.

HowEVER, they are pretty, and they totally enabled my friend to get the yarn and make Noro striped socks herself.

I just hope they will be the kind that felt instead of get holey.

Here they are:



As you can see I got the pooling in the right sock, but I thought the effect was quite nice. In that skein there was also a knot and a join which completely messed up the colourway. Typical...in the end, though, they turned out well, and I'm happy that because I did them toe-up, I used up every last bit of the yarn. Props to me.

And here are my newest Jaywalker socks. I made them before Christmas. The toe has become a bit coloured by my shoes. They're made from my beloved Lorna's Laces - colourways Blackberry and Firefly. I quite like them - Lorna's Laces make the best socks ever!!




And now, since I'm done with my socks for now, I'm working a bit on a super green Wollmeise sweater, but I ordered yarns from the internets for the first time in forever, so I'm eagerly awaiting it. I'm quite excited about the projects, just wait and see!