Spiral Socks

Sometimes i really do think that these spiral socks are never going to finish, they seem to be taking an age but if i dont knit them they will take an age.
The pattern is becoming simpler to follow and the sock is nearly finished .
The sock was finally finished after another weekend holiday which is were i do get most of my work done.

I love the socks and may keep them for myself the wool is now one of my all time greats such a lovely feel and knits up so beautifully. 

The only problem is that on the heel turn you do end up with a sizeable hole on each corner that needs to be sewn up. 

Birthday jumper

For emmas birthday i decided to make her a jumper from a vintage pattern i brought in a bundle.
The wool im using is lambs pride worsted weight wool in black and red brown that i got from ebay.
This wool from america is one of my all time favourite and it is extremely difficult to source in the uk as you have to pay for shipping from the states.
The pattern is simple and quite easy to follow and the jumper is comming along nicely.

honeycombe blanket

I have nearly been knitting my honeycomb blanket for a year and yesterday i had only managed to knit 16 hexipuffs i realise that if i don't knit any the quilt will not get any bigger.
so yesterday i decided that i had to knit some and managed to knit 9 before i got really bored.
The difficult thing is that they do seem to take a massive amount of time for such small things like 45 to and hour to make one which is why i think i get so bored of making them.
Also however i have changed how i am making the blanket but attaching each hexipuff together as i go so i don't have sew 300 together at the end.

The knitter submissions winter 2013

I have started a commission again for the knitter magazine, i love winter and find it much easier to design knits for winter
We have some fantastic news i have been commissioned to take some patterns for the knitter i cant show you any pics yet until the patterns have been published but it wont be long.

New Year knits.

As i have decided to finish all knitting projects that i have started before like the honeycomb blanket and the matching fair isle socks as well as my large patchwork blanket.
As ive been working hard i only have these three projects to finish when i have finished the orange jumper the spiral socks and the lace weight.
Why i have to finish all of my large projects is that i have to make my best friends birthday jumper before march tenth as well as make three babies worth of blankets and booties as she is having triplets.

The jumper is going well but taking a long time to finish and the pattern needs large amounts of adjustment due to the different wool and needle size that im using.

viking hat.

As many of you know my brother is a fanatical fancy dress enthusiast, he asked me to make him a viking helmet with beard for a fancy dress party.
Looking on the internet i saw many different styles of of this type of hat and in a flash of genius i decided to make the hat out of lopi alafosslopi from iceland that i got on holiday from the isle of white.
because of the pattern i decided to make the hat from the crown down so i could had a braid at the end as well as a bobble cuff.
As you also know im am not amazing at novelty items but im going to make a good go and try to make it as realistic as possible.

The knit is not going as well as i hoped i got the size wrong and the hat was massive way to big for any mans head. 

lace shawl

The lace shawl is still continuing on , its taking a very long time to knit but i am going to change the cast off as i dont want it to be frilly like in the pattern.
just yesterday i reached the mark of having to increase from 512 to 1024 stitches meaning i will have to buy another ball of wool to finish the project.
I am now working on my own pattern because i decided to make the shawl out of lace weight,( im not fond of dk or aran weight shawls as the pattern suggested i think they look bulky)i knew that when in the pattern you would cast off i would still have to go on further ive allready added 40 more rows but believe i may have to add another 40 more to finish the piece.
Having just knitted the last 4 rows i have totally run out of yarn i think im going to need one or even 2 more balls of the lace weight noro wool.