So, having got over my aversion to taking my own photo... ta da! I'm back, but who knows what hideousness and violations against the fashion world are being committed, just off-camera, hmm? We'll never know... actually, I am quite stylishly clad today, but you'll just have to take my word for it. Because the purpose of this post is to reveal my new, and possibly last for a while, sockies. Last, you may ask? am I sick of knitting socks? well, no, I still have enthusiasm for sock-knitting and I still have some sock wool left. But I think I have quite enough socks now :), even Craig is helping himself to my sock drawer occasionally, and I am thinking of making other things from my remaining sock wool... just exactly what is to be revealed sometime in the future...Do you like my new companion? (Sienna is taking a break from modelling too...) I have included pussycats in my sock pictures before, here, and here, and once a sort-of animal got in on the act here, but this is a first for this green-eyed diva... she is very fluffy and very placid, and has just been treated to a good vigorous brush, so was in the mood for sitting happily and plumply, if briefly, at my feet; that beautiful glossy grey coat setting off my socks to perfection.
Details:Socks; knitted in Morris Empire Superwash Merino 4 ply in Scarlet Twist (col 453) with Beluga (col 430) heels and toes, based on the pattern for Ladies Sockettes in Patons Knitting Book C11, a circa 1960's publication
Today I bring two flashbacks; two, because I don't have very good photos of either one to warrant an individual post, and because I am trying to whizz through these old projects a little faster than I have been up until now... These items are both things I made for Tim when he was about two.The first is a little navy blue corduroy biker-styled jacket that zipped up the front (biker-styled... for a two year old, lol!), which I toddler-ised by using contrasting red for the collar and trimmings, the pattern from a Topkids magazine. Even though Tim wore it a lot, this is the best photo I have of it...And the second is a little jumper that I knitted using a pattern from a Women's Weekly magazine. Babar is embroidered on the front over the knitting stitches. He wore this a lot... and I have heaps of photos of him wearing this, but these are the only ones even vaguely showing off that embroidery! The lower picture, taken at Lake Mountain in Victoria, is the first time these sandgropers had ever ever seen snow in our lives! We made a little snowman!(translation: sandgropers = Western Australians)
