Pink

I like pink. I know it’s a girly colour and I’m not a girl who cares tuppence about her appearance, but pink just does something for me. So in one of my first experiments with chemical rather than plant dyes I dyed some yarn (Unknown fibres, but definitely some wool in there), with pink and magenta and feared what it would look like knitted up. It looks pink. Thankfully there is only a small amount of colour pooling. The pattern is “You're Putting Me On" Socks by Judy Gibson, knitted toe-up. I now want to try short row shaping so perhaps that will help. Second sock syndrome is upon me as instead of casting on a new sock immediately I’d finished this one; I was sidetracked into doing a cable sample of some Rowan Big wool which I have random amounts of. This was after some of Saturday afternoon was spent cruising the knitting section of Borders for inspiration. There are some fun projects in the books I saw, but not enough to make me want to buy a whole book.

Just done a quiz, which of Henry VIII’s wives are you, and I turned out to be Anne of Cleves – Not afraid to wear ugly shoes on a date.