Blogmas Days 14 & 15

Hello friends, I lost yesterday completely to a migraine. I was in my room in the dark all day I just could not stand to be around any form of light. This has meant that I have very little knitting to share with you but I do have some.

I have tried to keep up with the advent shawl, just a little more of yesterdays and today's to do and I am all caught up.

 The theme of the night sky continues.
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The cutest wee buttons

 I said on Thursday that it was time to cast on a sock, I not only did one but two.

Now I have plenty to keep me entertained for a few days.

Time to pick up my needles, I leave you today with our boy, Frankie, looking as if butter wouldn't melt which is not always the case

Happy crafting

Mary

Blogmas Day 13

Hello friends, it's a milkshake kinda day. I have a strawberry milkshake in my glass, a vanilla wax melt in the warmer, my knitting in my lap and one of my own December traditions, I am binge watching Criminal Minds. I am on season 4 and I love it, maybe not Christmassy to most folks but hey, we are all different, in my mind, I am the Scottish Penelope Garcia style-wise.

Yesterday I promised you some finished socks and TA-DAH!!

These scrappy socks knit up very quickly and use up leftovers from other projects, what's not to love?

Talking of finished projects, earlier this year I said I wanted to finish 45 projects, one named after every town and village in East Lothian, well, with this project I made it 😀😀😀

Now, back to Advent. I have added yesterday's colour,

and opened today's which came with the most delightful progress keeper

Remember I said I had won a prize in a trivia quiz? Well, it arrived this morning,

the most gorgeous sparkly Christmas tree soap. This was so serendipitous as just yesterday we put out our own Christmas tree

It is behind glass in the cabinet to protect it from curious kitties.

Well, time to go and knit up today's yarn. I also have to cast on a new sock, (can't wait till Sunday).
I leave you with the sleeping beauties to my right

 Happy crafting

Mary

Blogmas Day 12

Hello friends, can you believe we are halfway through Advent already? Is it just me or are the days passing too quickly? I still have much preparation to do. Lots of wrapping and I still haven't bought hubby a birthday pressie, (how inconsiderate of him to be born on the 21st).

I caught up with the shawl last night when coughing and sneezes kept me awake.

And will add today's stripe as soon as I have finished here,

Hubby picked out the next colour for my Adventurous wrap and I have made a start on that

The yarn is leftover from socks I knitted in 2017 and is a Hubble Bubble from Ripples Crafts.

I also got quite a bit done on my scrappy socks but I am leaving taking a photo until they are finished, hopefully by tomorrow they will be done.

I leave you today with yesterday's supervisor of knitting,

Mysti is not a lap cat at all but will happily sit on the back of the sofa and carefully watch all proceedings.

Happy crafting

Mary

Blogmas Day 11

Hello friends, I am not having a great time today, choked with cold and just wanting to sleep.

I did not manage to knit up my advent calendar yesterday so will be doing it later. I did however manage to knit day 5 of my Adventurer Wrap

Now that I have chosen to use leftovers and have hubby pick out the next colour I am so keen to see how it will pan out. I have been following other people's in the Ambah group on Ravelry and there are some really beautiful wraps and scarves.

Today's advent surprise is just gorgeous

I am looking forward to catching this up and will see you all tomorrow when hopefully I will feel a bitty better.

Happy crafting

Mary

Blogmas Day 10

Hello friends, I hope you are having a great Monday.

I loved knitting the green into the shawl and am getting more excited about this whole project as it grows,

Today's surprise follows the theme again,

My Outlander wrap has stalled a bit as I have changed my mind about the yarn I want to use. I have decided that it will be a memories wrap and I have gathered together the leftovers from projects I have completed this past year which I will knit into it

Empty Whiskas box = great scraps storage

Talking of scraps and leftovers, I am cracking on with my Molly's Magical Socks for Operation Christmas Stocking. Once again I have used Milkshake as my base pattern for sizing and I have tweaked the pattern slightly by adding 1 stitch to the instep and not doing the pattern on the back of the leg. These must be the quickest socks ever as every 8 rows you change yarn and you just want to do the next colour. I started the second sock last night and am already to the gusset section.

Finally today, I need your help.

I have been asked to knit 2 pairs of socks by an old friend, we have chosen the yarn

I need your suggestions for which patterns to use. I am excited to see which are your favourites, either use the comments or pop on over to the Ravelry group and let me know.

Time for some knitting, here's Connie ready to be my helper today

Happy crafting

Mary

Links

Molly's Magical Socks  https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/mollys-magical-socks
Milkshake  https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/milkshake-3
Ravelry Group  https://www.ravelry.com/groups/the-sunday-sock

Blogmas Day 9

Hello friends, can you believe we are a third of the way through Advent already?

As it is Sunday, I am concentrating on socks today and I have a finish to share with you.

As you can see quite a bit of knitting was done over the last couple of days. The pattern I used was Milkshake by Fiona D Tulloch, with a few wee tweaks, and the yarn was Regia Fluormania Color which was donated by Fiona for Operation Christmas Stocking. These socks will now be parcelled up and posted down to Kelso.
I am sure you are wondering about my tweaks, I would be, well, I tend to do kfb instead of the M1's and with this pair, I did a slip stitch heel and K3 P1 rib on the sock until the cuff which is 2x2 rib.
Here is a close up of the inside and outside of my heel

And the gusset with the kfb

Milkshake is my go to toe up pattern.

Now for the Advent shawl.

Can you see that little ball of fur? She is my constant knitting companion

And now for today's reveal

I am looking forward to knitting this into my shawl and sharing with you tomorrow.

Happy Crafting

Mary

Links 

Ravelry Group  https://www.ravelry.com/groups/the-sunday-sock

Milkshake socks https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/milkshake-3

Blogmas Day 8

Hello friends, I am feeling a bit under the weather today so this will be short and sweet.

The rows on my Advent shawl are getting longer and thinner.

Today's yarn is once again following the scheme

I have some progress to share on what I am calling my Outlander wrap.

I am calling it the Outlander wrap as I am working on it whilst listening to the book.

Finally, I leave you today with the exciting news that I have won a prize in the Rosie's Advent Calendar group trivia quiz on FaceBook. I was so surprised to have been picked and will show it to you all when it arrives.

Happy crafting

Mary

Links

Ravelry group  https://www.ravelry.com/groups/the-sunday-sock
Wrap pattern   https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/adventurer-scarf--wrap
Rosie's Moments https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/RosiesMoments