Knitted socks

I knitted some socks years ago from a magazine pattern, wore them once and ended up unravelling them because they were far too lose and slipping down on the sole of  my feet - look at that ridiculous shape!:

So I've since rekindled my liking for knitting socks and finished some ankle ones 18 months ago or so, and I love those.  Started them with the Judy's magic cast on which is a great technique.
I've now bought Toe-Up 2-At-A-Time Socks by Melissa Morgan-Oakes as I was suffering from the 2nd sock syndrome - so watch this space.....  And I have a small (ish) stash of the sock yarn from the YarnYard which I got through the Small Skein Society last year, so I won't need to buy more yarn (or will I...) :-)

Knitted earrings

The talented Erica wrote a pattern for knitted wire earrings, and years ago when I was in a knitting machine phase I knitted quite a lot for presents.  Now and then I get the knitting machine from under the bed and make some more...

Spiral geese mini quilt

I'm nearly finished this spiral geese mini quilt and  it's been so fun doing some foundation piecing again: I find I can really get some precise sewing with this method - and it's been doubly fun as I've done it with my new Janome machine which my FIL purchased for me, how incredible is that!:  he just offered to buy it after I said I was saving my £2 coins to buy a new machine, and he took pity on me: how about that ladies!?
And the local Fabric Shop supplies Janome, which I have gotten used to, so I am the proud owner of a new TXL607 :-)

Baby quilt for Marc

I made this first baby quilt for my nephew Robin (in April 2012), using a charm pack I had got from the States, and my 1/4" seams are really not neat but if you don't look too close it's not shocking :-)
That was a fun quilt to make anyway!

Thistle quilt

I've been going to quilting classes for over 2 years now, first in the Sew Materialistic shop in Ayr, and then with Sheila's normal quilting classes.  Sheila kindly designed this double bed quilt on her quilting software, and it took me a wee while to complete it (ha!) but managed it - it's in FV(favourite daughter)'s colours, purple and a touch of turquoise.  Now the twist is that once I had finished it, I was told by FV that she couldn't possibly use a double bed quilt on a single bed!  So it's been out on our bed during the winter, and I have actually enjoyed it a lot!

Fireside cardigan - finished

This Fireside Cardi *has* been finished for ages but my blogging time has completely been taken over by other stuff (life?!).  So anyway, I am really chuffed with the way this cardi has turned out and I have loooved knitting it - even in the high summer heat!  The one hitch is that one of the fronts has a line 1/2 way up because I didn't check the dye lots when buying the wool - despite Antje at the Yarncake warning me!  Talk about learning through your mistakes....see the line on the left handside when looking at this photo?:

It's Garnstudio DROPS Nepal.