Thursday, November 22, 2007

Monkeys, and the benefits of evil twin-ness...

Thanks to everyone who commented on the last post - I'm still feeling slightly smug about the shawl...


But on with the next thing, and the amount of time I have to knit on the train is making itself felt in the speed I can knit smaller items. I made a hat on Sunday night and the Monday morning train (can't show you yet); and then started a pair of Monkey socks halfway down to London on Monday. Progress each evening:


Monday:




Tuesday:




Wednesday (about 6 rows to go - will explore grafting on a train this morning, but have some waste yarn with me in case that's an insane idea!):



I'm loving this yarn - and may have best part of a pair of Christmas socks for my aunt by the end of the week, if I continue to get a seat in the evening...

Evil twin-ness - I've been meaning to post this for a couple of weeks. Jan and I have a standing joke about this - it seems that we both discover things at about the same pace, and have the habit of turning up when we meet with a pair of socks at the same stage of completion in the same yarn, or ordering the same needles from the same shop in the same week... When I had my week off at the end of October, I went down to Brighton, and Jan gave me a very beautiful pair of ear-rings as a good-luck-in-the-new-job present. The day before, I'd ordered a pendant/brooch from luckygirltrading. When it arrived....



Scary, eh?

4 comments:

E-J said...

Well, you can feel smug about the sock too, because it's gorgeous. If I were to post "progress" shots of my latest sock, they would show something that gets longer one day, then shorter the next, then longer again, then really REALLY short, then longer ... It would be tedious.

Annie said...

That tea shawl is absolutely gorgeous - you should be very very proud.

Rosie said...

Stunning socks and uncanny match.

E-J said...

I thought I'd left a comment about your nephew, but clearly didn't. Aww da lubly ickle babby (sorry, but that's what motherhood has done to me). Congrats Aunty Liz!