Crafty Little Rat

  Hello! I’ve been busy knitting and watching Netflix and not a lot else these past few weeks. Work has been busy and real life busy too that home time means switch off time. Since I last posted I’ve finished 4 things! I have to be so much better about blogging This month’s mystery Socks – Reverso. I didn’t particularly like knitting these – I loved the way the hand dyed yarn striped, although a lot of that is lost when they’re right side out (Left sock) and the patterning was lost around the heel and toe. There was a LOT of purling after the heel turn. At this point I had to turn the sock inside out again and purl across the bottom of the foot – there was no way I could keep my patterning right on the instep looking at the purl side. Never the less it was in my queue and free, and sometimes you just can’t tell until you’ve knit them. They fit well, look nice but boy am I glad they are DONE!   Next up is Across The beach The above Pre-Blocking gives a far better idea of the co

  Today I managed to make the most of the little light we had to take some update pictures! It’s been a bit of a spring clean-y day around here. I’ve got rid of a huge pile of too big for me clothes today and had a general spruce up around the living room. I’ve also changed the URL of the blog to http://craftylittlerat.blogspot.com – previously it was craftylilrat, the little part wasn’t available in full when I registered. Maybe now I won’t keep typing in my blog address wrong! I’m knitting away on my March Socks pretty much exclusively Pattern is Reverso from Knitty and the yarn is a hand dyed one called Night Jewels from my LYS Miju. From this side with the purls facing out it’s not that obvious but it striped up pretty accurately!   I’ve also fallen off the cold sheep wagon a little. 18 months ago I made my nephew a blanket for his first birthday out of Natura cotton, well he now has a little sister and I wanted to do the same for her. Spotting this in my LYS I just could

  Happy St David’s Day from sunny (for once!) Wales. It’s still a bit chilly here, but apparently the first of March heralds the start of spring. I did manage to complete some things in February, though not as much as I would have liked and frankly I’m glad to see the back of the flipping month. February’s pair of Socks – Dalekanium in some sock will with a long lost label. For this pattern I had to modify the stitch count dramatically – I ended up just using the slip stitch pattern really over 60 stitches and a toe up heel flap and gusset. First successful eye of partridge heel as well. I also did a short row toe as well. I also finished another section of the Christmas Tree skirt. Still really loving the pattern and the yarn (Stylecraft Chunky held double). It’s a nice amount of knitting to do in a month. I think it’s too much to sit down and do all at once, but this way it never feels like a slog to complete just the one section. I’m a bit worried I may have to do cable surge