This year has been incredibly strange and has flown by so fast – I can’t believe it’s already October! While those who observe Halloween are getting ready to carve faces in pumpkins and consume unsafe amounts of chocolate, I’m limbering up for my annual sock knitting binge. In October I start to…
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Soft Socks
It’s November and Christmas is only 53 knitting days away. That means 7 weeks to turn out at least five pairs of socks. I made a start this week, casting on a pair of Angee socks by Cookie A. I used a skein of Hedgehog Fibres Skinny Singles in the colour Banana…
Planina Wrap
Last week I finished up one of the most enjoyable projects I’ve knit for a while – the Planina Wrap. Planina Wrap is a pattern by Shara Lambeth and it’s available on Ravelry for $4.00. Shara designed this to work with a yarn advent calendar, but it’s a perfect stashbuster too. I…
Winter Sock Club
It’s time for the Little Yellow Cat Winter Sock Club. The theme for the Winter Sock Club is Vintage Garden. Everything will have a rich, tonal, vintage feel for winter.You’ll receive three skeins in total, each will be 100g of 4ply/fingering weight. Skeins are about 360-400 meters long but this will vary…
Christmas Socks
Now Christmas is over I can share with you some of the gift knitting I did last year – specifically the Christmas Socks I made for family members’ Christmas presents. One of my knitting goals for 2017 was to knit 12 pair of socks. I’m still rounding them up to photograph and…
Pink Peppercorn
A very quick post about a new yarn base and colour that I’ve just added to the shop. Pink Peppercorn is a soft pink with splashes of lichen, mustard and raspberry. It also has a handful of blue and orange flecks. I don’t often keep a skein of yarn from my dyeing…