Update...........

Well now. Yorkshire didn't work out, ended in tears and bitterness, none of my doing. In a nutsehll, back in Dorset, sorting out an off-grid living space for myself, on my own. In the meantime, knitting socks until my stash reappears from Yorkshire, hopefully quite soon!

I'm still here!

I'm still around, still knitting, ofcourse. Private life has undergone major upheavals - marriage over and I've moved up to Yorkshire. I'm afraid blogging has taken a bit of a back seat up until now, but I'm getting back in the blogging groove, and want to get all my blogs and things updated as soon as I can. I'm busy knitting away for stocking an internet shop -possibly Etsy or Folksy, but haven't decided for definite yet, or it might be something independent of them. I've also got a meeting soon with a local knnitwear company to enquire about handknitting for them, will see what transpires with that. Watch this tension square-shaped space lol

More spinning..........

Latest spinnings here :) The purple is Dorset Down, done in a random dye with acid dyes; something small wil be knitted with it, but I love the way it's spun up, better than I thought. I spun most of it when demonstrating at a local fete; many comments elicited by the colour and my matching purple dress lol
the basket of fleece is Cheviot cross; I sorted teh fleece yesterday -a very pleasant way to spend half an hour on the lawn in the sun :) Started spinning that tonight, straight from the fleece and in the grease for the first time. Pleased with that too, so far. Watch these spaces....lol

Knitting in summer......

I'm still knitting, honest...............lol Admittedly, I'm not knitting as much at thsi time of year as I do in the autumn/winter. Sometimes it's just too hot to knit, the wool and needles getting sticky, frustrating when I want to get on with something. The other reason is the garden, combined with lighter evenings taking up more of my time. However, I've just cast on and started a new beret for the autumn; it's the North Star Tam from Arctic Lace by Donna Druchanas;lovely pattern to knit, I'm really enjoying it.

OH has finally got around to repairing my drum carder, so that will be in action later this week, as I've a lot to do for various projects. The other pic is the last pair fo sock off the needles, I need to get some more cast on, it feels strange being sockless lol

Sockpile!

Yet more socks...............

Luckily I have found 3 more people who would like socks knitted for them, so I don;t have to stop! LOL

Snowball scarf

A friend came into the pub last night to find me- she knew knitting group was on. She'd seen a scarf in a wool shop she'd liked, but the woman wouldn't sell it to her (a non-knitter), so she bought the wool and asked me to knit it. It's a fairly new one on the scene, Sirdar Snowball; I've seen it in several shops, and have seen it knitted up. It took a shade over an hour to knit, on size 8mm needles, so I was pleased to sit down and get on with it accompanied by a cup of tea this morning. I'm happy with it, it's turned out nicely - very, very soft, too. The good thing about knitting for others is it gives you the chance to try out yarns and patterns you might not necessarily pick out for yourself to knit.
I hope to get it round to her tonight, and see how surprised she is! Mind you, it's still cold enough here to need it!

Sea foam scarf

Done for me, also for my Poet's Calendar project and the Guild's "elements" challenge. Commercially spun, hand dyed in the ball with acid blue and yellow dyes to give sea green and white foam effect; the pattern is New Shale, to continue the sea theme.
Pleased with this. :)

ETA - won the Guild "Elements" challenge with this :)