A quiet April

Longer than a month since I last posted? Disgraceful.

Truth is, I've not done a lot bead-wise. I made some more Petalplosions in a pale plum colour (the ones pictured above) but then I ran out of propane just before the long Easter weekend and FloGas didn't deliver a new canister until last week. I do miss their local dealer service where you could get next day delivery; now it all goes through a central call centre system and everything takes ages.

So I've been knitting socks. Loads of them. So many socks I've lost count. I have a stack of them on the table next to me, all washed and blocked, waiting for their photos to be taken.

I made a pair of coral-coloured socks for my littlest sister's birthday last month.

The pattern is Harriet by Summer Lee from her superb book The Sock Project and the yarn is Cascade Heritage in 5750 Living Coral. I knitted a pair the same but in a linen beige colour for my other sister but I forgot to photograph those ones.

I got a bit obsessed knitting striped socks for a bit. I've only photographed one pair of those - the others are on the aforementioned sock stack.

These ones are no particular pattern, just a generic cuff down sock in five row stripes.

Nigel helping with photography

These were knitted with Yarnsmiths Merino Sock in 098 Crimson and 223 Spearmint. I'm really impressed with this yarn. It's very soft and comes in a wide range of colours. I like it a lot!

What else have I been doing? I went to London last month to watch my niece, brother-in-law and my niece's cousin run the London Landmarks half marathon. My niece Robyn (long-term readers will be shocked to realise that she's now twenty years old) only started running at the start of the year so she did really well to run a half in just over three hours, bless her. I'm so proud of her! I hadn't been for a run since February but after seeing Robyn do so brilliantly I was inspired to get back to it and now I'm out there three times a week plodding along like a sweaty, beetroot-faced wombat but I'm loving it.

I'm still working my way through The X Files and Chris is finding it hilarious that I'm thirty years late to it. It's so good! 

I think that's about all for now. I've just added 'photograph sock stack socks' to my to-do list so I'll be back soon with some of those and hopefully some beads too now that my torch has fuel again.