We won't be cold this winter

 

The key to buying keyrings online ..

 ... is that the slly advertisers call a keyring two pieces, the fastening bit and the ring where you hang the keys.  So a box of "36 pieces" is actually only 18 keyrings to normal people i.e. me.  Yes, they did picture the full contents of the box along side it,but who actually counts that?  Anyway, I wanted them for mni socks.  Made on the Knitmaster, 16 sts wide leg of 12 rows, foot of 8 rows, turned heels and toe and grafted.

Another heatwave!

 ... and too hot to knit.

Here's a snowman toilet roll cover I finished earlier.

After the heatwave, after the flood

Too hot to knit, then as soon as the weather cooled down, a burst inlet pipe in the kitchen brought all knitting to a halt for a couple of days.

I have been "playing" with a Reader, Hand & Co machine for a few weeks, on and off (mostly off).  This machine has an extra pattern dsik attached to the side, and twin feed for yarn, extra cam for the needle path. There only seems to be the one setting though It came to me in a very parlous state, totally seized, with the knitting attached.  It took the combined efforts of the gang (bribed by cake) to get it apart and the needles out, then yourse truly attacked it with more than one can of WD40.  Today was re-assembly day.  The gang was again bribed by cake as the full machine is too heavy for me to lift.

Show your knots

 

 Look, Yarn Spinners, it's all very well bringing out a pretty rainbow yarn to celebrate Pride month, but it just isn't funny when you not only have a break in the yarn but also go on to pick up a new length from a different dyebatch AND reverse the sequence of the rainbow.

And don't give me the pathetic excuse that trade standards allow you so many knots in a ball of yarn. Similar stuff happened with another of your sock yarn range.  You may be one of the cheaper yarns,but I do expect it to be usable!  Will I ever buy your yarn again?  What do you think?7

Addendum : Stylecraft did apoloogise and replace the ball of yarn.

New Kit

An idea held over from some time ago.  Now I have a 64 cylinder on the pretty Cymbal,  making afterthought or Shaker Socks from knitted tubes looks more "do-able".

Two parts to this - making kits for sale, and holding a workshop.  Who would have thought the instructions would take so long to type out, test, and edit?  Even the label for the bag (opaque, so has to be descriptive- but brief!).

Royal Purple pots

 It was a coincidence that I was making cosy coasters pots whole watching Trooping the Colour on the Platinum Jubilee, but here you

have them!