Buddy baby socks finished and a new knit project

 

I  have had a really slack week and just never got round to posting last week. Sometimes you just have to give in to life though and it means things like blogging ( which I truly enjoy) have to slip. I did carry on knitting though and I finished my socks.

These are my finished Buddy baby socks size 6 months. I mentioned them a couple of weeks ago now but have not had time to write the post and I do like to keep a record of what I make and anything that goes right or wrong when making. I aim to make more of these - maybe in the next size up. It was a great feeling finishing something like socks in just a couple of weeks which for me is incredibly fast. Though of course these are tiny being for a 6 month old baby but never mind that. Its still a finished item. 

The original post on these is here. I made them as part of a winter knit along which I have taken part in for the last two January's. Its really nice feeling part of something spread accross the world with many other people who have a similar interest despite you never meet any of them but you really do feel connected and after the trials that always happen over Christmas and the lead up to the holiday season which is always it seems full of stress I find it so good to just do something for me.

Of course these socks will not fit me but it was satisfying doing this project and taking time to just craft and do what I wanted to do.

I also realised I do not do a proper SSK( slip slip knit) which has become an international thing and I do an old fashioned slip one knit one pass slip stitch over which gives me miss-matched side decreases. Not sure you can see well here but its something I intend to fix on future knit projects now I understand the difference. So at least I have learned something.

I have also just started a new knit project and you could not get more different to the Buddy baby socks. 

Its going to be a jumper ( for me) and its a fluffy mohair mix yarn but I wanted something a kind of khaki colour not bright. For me thats not easy because I tend to collect and stash bright colours of vintage yarns. I did though have some of the grey left over from my nordic style jumper and have two similar green yarns so mixed together they seem to give a look which fits what I am aiming for. I actually have 1 more ball of each of the greens than those shown above because I am already knitting them into the jumper. So in all I have 9 of the moss green Emu yarn which is 25g balls  and 6 of the Tropicana ( tweedy yarn) which is also 25g balls. I have no idea what fibre the grey yarn is. I bought it off Ebay on a whim and it did not tell me what the fibre is but there is approx 340g left so hopefully these three yarns will provide enough for the jumper I aim to knit.

I have owned this knitting magazine from when it came out. I used to subscribe. That was back in the 1980's though:

I never actually ever thought I would knit such a simple design but this jumper is going to be based on the red jumper here:

Of course its early days yet but being knitted on huge 7mm and 8mm needles I am hopeful to get this finished before spring is over. Well you never know. Its so far taken me 2 evenings to achieve the amount knitted so far but I have to take into account I am not able to knit every day. It just does not fit into my current life and work so its not going to be the case it will grow 7 days a week. Still never mind. If I can get this done by June that will do nicely. 

I really like how the green and grey works together though and will enjoy wearing this.

Sometimes you do not need to show off your knitting or sewing skills though which I kind of feel I get a bit obsessed by. I kind of get into this mind set where I feel I should knit cables or lace etc just because I can. And cables and lace makes for an interesting project but the problem is I actually like to wear simple to knit tops like this will be. I want to wear a  nice basic loose knit fluffy top for spring and this will perfectly fit that description assuming it works out the way I think it is going to. 

This is also hopefully a nice quick project to get me back into crafting because I feel I have not been making much so far in 2023. Its mostly just been finishing off WIPs which is valid of course but not very inspiring really - for me personally anyway. There is kind of a relief when I get rid of something that has hung around in storage for ages but its not very inventive really and I need to make some new clothing to freshen up my wardrobe. This is especially the case now I had my huge clearout over the past motnh - mind you I have space now!  But I want to fill it with things like new tops since mostly what I threw was shoes I never wear (and I mean never ever) and tops that have become old and worn. I am though now finding I just have a few tops and keep having to grap them out the airing cupboard before they are really aired because I do not now have enough clothes to wear without constantly doing washing, Or thats not quite true. I have loads of clothes still but a shortage of seperates. Tops in particular. So you may start to find tops appearing on here over the coming months. 

Have a great weekend

Bracken