A new skill

During the Tour de France I have been knitting a jumper for my elder daughter.  There is only tonight to go and the Tour will be finished.  I managed to finish the jumper today but I had to learn a new skill in order to finish the jumper.  The skill I have mastered is Italian…

Getting ready

I have my Tour Guide and this is what was in a parcel I received last week.  I am preparing for a month’s television viewing as it is soon to be the start of the Tour de France. The package contained beautiful wool. I am just waiting for the second lot of wool as this…

Different socks

I have done some sock knitting in the past few months and the socks I have knitted have been a bit different to those I usually knit. These are the usual socks I knit which are 4ply and from a multicoloured ball of wool. This time I knitted some 8ply socks for my grandson.  He…

One skein of wool

I recently visited, with my sister-in-law, our local wool shop in Lakes Entrance, Stitches ‘n’ Things. My sister-in-law likes to visit this shop when she comes to visit us.  She invariably buys a fair amount of wool as she doesn’t have such a great selection where she lives. I said I would go along with…

Using more stashed wool.

I have done some more knitting recently, other than socks and wash cloths.  I used up some of my stash of wool to make a cardigan for one of our granddaughters.  I had quite a lot of the creamy white wool and I had some mauve which I used to make up the amount I…

Finishing off a long forgotten project.

I started this project when our youngest granddaughter was a toddler, she is now in Grade 2 at school. It was a pattern I found in a library book and took photocopies of the doll but unfortunately didn’t have the complete instructions so I had to wing it in part.  I think that was why…