Emma's Leftovers

This is one sock, from my range of odd socks using the leftover yarn from other socks that I have been making. This sock I finished a little while ago, but forgot to update you on! - Oops.

The leftover yarn was Regia, the Arne and Carlos Design Line in the Bramble colourway. The needles I used were a wooden set of 2.5mm DPNs, like I had used for Emma's original socks.

I knitted this sock cuff down, and using a heel flap and gusset construction. I find this construction easier on DPNs, and it was the first I learned to do, and I can make a pretty good sock using it.

The sock really didn't take me too long to make, and it was my travel knitting for a while. I had cast on 60 stitches for this sock. I am still trying to figure out the right "Recipe" for socks that fit me nicely. I find that I have arrow feet, but they are not that narrow! So I have a couple tight socks and a couple of fairly loose socks! Safe to say this sock was a success, and I will definitely be making more socks with this number of stitches in the future.

Now, time for more socks...

Lemmon Juicer Podcast Episode 4: WIP City

Welcome to Episode 4 of the Lemmon Juicer Podcast, make yourself at cuppa and settle down!

Instagram: @lemmonjuicer
Ravelry: sockbug97
Blog: www.lemmonjuicer.blogspot.co.uk

Finished Objects:
Winging It Jumper: There is no pattern yet for this! Project on Ravelery: https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Sockbug97/winging-it-jumper

WIPs:
Necker Socks: https://ravelry.com/patterns/library/necker
BreatheMAL: https://ravelry.com/groups/knit3together-podcast
Mam's Hat:https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/gridiron-hat (Previous Hat: https://lemmonjuicer.blogspot.com/2018/02/snowball-beanie.html)
Charlotte Hat: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/charlotte-59 (Walrus Hat: https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5842376568911170247&pli=1#editor/target=post;postID=6914927989642395713;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=20;src=postname)


Aquisitions:
Gamer Crafting: https://gamercrafting.com/product/kind-hufflepuff-themed-yarn-geeky-yarn-indie-dyed-yarn-variegated-yarn-speckled-yarn-harry-potter-themed-yarn-knitting-kit/

In The Shed:
Spitfire: https://www.airfix.com/uk-en/shop/themes/spitfire/supermarine-spitfire-mkia-starter-set-1-72.html


Knit3Together Podcast:
Ravelry: https://ravelry.com/groups/knit3together-podcast
Instagram: @knit3togethertts
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt4eBPnJdIDk36qgNC70QfA

Music:
"Inspired" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Knitted Woodland at the Village Show

The past few weeks have been hectic in terms of my knitting. Mam had persuaded me to enter something knitted into the village show. But it was only four weeks before the show, and I had nothing to enter. So cue the panic deadline knitting!

I decided that since I had been given a book called Mini Knitted Woodland (By Sachiyo Ishii), I would knit a woodland. I started off with a huge list of the animals from the book which I planned to knit, and I decided to knit two of each. I got to thirty animals, and hadn't finished the list, but decided to stop because I was only a week away from the show, only had some animals and no other scenery.

I then knitted a forest floor. There was a pattern for it in the back of the book. It was made up of squares of different stitches, made with different shades of green. The squares are then sewn together to create a floor, which I then put my animals on to. I also crocheted two circles, out of two shades of blue to create a couple of ponds to go with the woodland, as I had two swans, two cygnets and four ducks! The ponds were sewn onto the edge of the woodland floor. They overlapped the edge to make sure they were part of the woodland but would allow a fair amount of space behind for the other animals.

I also knitted one full size tree and a tree stump from the book. The tree itself was quick and fairly easy to knit, but back stitching the foliage on was a slow and painstaking task. But it was done and I was really happy with how the tree looked in the end. The tree stump would have been very easy to knit. But I had managed to leave one of my DPNs in Wales... So I had to improvise, which meant having one straight and sliding the stitches off it whenever I needed to knit them. It worked. Kind of.

Overall I was very pleased with the outcome of it all. I was happy when I finished the last tree and was able to lay out the pieces and see it all together. I was really happy entering it into the show, and was so happy when I got second prize. The hard work really did pay off!

Lemmon Juicer Podcast Episode 3

It's the third episode of the podcast! I am sorry that I didn't manage to post about episode two. But I'm here with this one.

So here it is:

Shownotes:

Instagram: @lemmonjuicer
Ravelry: sockbug97
Blog: www.lemmonjuicer.blogspot.co.uk

Finished Objects:
Mini Knitted Woodland:https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/mini-knitted-woodland
Memory Blanket: https://loveknitting.com/memory-blanket-knitting-pattern-by-georgie-nicolson-tikki

WIPs:
Winging it Jumper: There is no pattern yet for this!
Necker Socks: https://ravelry.com/patterns/library/necker
BreatheMAL: https://ravelry.com/groups/knit3together-podcast

Knit3Together Podcast:
Ravelry: https://ravelry.com/groups/knit3together-podcast
Instagram: @knit3togethertts
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt4eBPnJdIDk36qgNC70QfA

Music:
"Inspired" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/