Today I Like....

..... my clover soft touch crochet hook and my audiobook! The clover soft touch crochet hook is an absolute dream to work with. I received mine yesterday and started the Girl Elephant from Boy and Girl Elephants from Amigurumi World with it. It's been great to use and I was so impressed that I went online and ordered some more sizes for the rest of my amigurumi planned projects.

And I'm pretty impressed with the audiobook I finished today. It was Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Scott and narrated by Scott Brick. 10 hours of excellent listening which really helped me get through my housework.

I hope to have my Girl Elephant finished tomorrow so if I do I will post a picture up. My socks are still being used solely as my portable project and birdie is stuffed to the bottom of the knitting basket until I've finished the elephant. I needed a break from the cotton :o(

Knit N Natter Saved My Life....

.... well more my kids really!! I was so glad to get out of the house yesterday evening to Knit N Natter. It really is my saviour once a week. Cheesybabe is working on a fab pair of socks in King Cole zigzag for her other half. I think she is deliberately trying to tempt me off my yarn diet as they look really nice and I am really tempted to get some. And Cloudpurple was casting on a baby hat for a friends baby in some gorgeous cotton yarn. I think it's going to knit up lovely. K is still working on a baby blanket for a friends baby and L is working on a scarf for lovinghands.org.

And i'm still working on the portable green and purple socks. I have another couple of inches to do on the first sock leg. Although I love the colours I am not so much in love with the yarn. The Patons Dreamtime 4ply piles as you knit it and the yarn forward yarn is really really splitty. But I still like the ease of the project. I really am going to have to do some jazzy socks next as I can't keep doing plain socks!

In non-knitting news, my new handbag (Kipling no less) arrived which I paid for courtesy of my ravelry knitting book sales. Big thanks to all those who bought books from me and I hope you are enjoying them. I just have to get all my non-knitting books up for sale now. And Monstrous Regiment audiobook kept cutting out so I am going to have to pick a new one to listen to. Suggestions anyone??

Purple - Yum, Cotton - uggghhh!

Here are my yummy green and purple socks:

I love them :o) My rubbishy photographic skills do not capture the yumminess of the colours in their full glory but trust me, they really are yummy! And of course I am knitting them on my knit pro symfonies which tend to make knitting a bit of a luxury experience. But I am being very strict with myself and only knitting on these when I am out and about. They are to be my portable project for the next few weeks. I've never knitted a sock with a contrasting cuff, heel and toe so I am really hoping I don't mess them up beyond belief!

And on to the ugggghhh part of this post. I hate knitting with cotton :o( Now some may ask why I am perservering in this endevour but if you go on to ravelry and search for the pattern 'Birdie' by the designer Lucinda Guy you will realise why. This is the cutest way I felt I could use up the cotton yarn I had in my stash. And as I am all about only using the stash in 2009 (which by the way is working pretty well) I thought this pattern was the way to go. We'll wait and see if this turns out as I hope!

In other knitting news, the Harris Knit N Natter group organiser emailed details of their event for World Wide Knit In Public Day. They will be be at the Isle of Harris Inn on Saturday 13th June, from 11-3 so there will be access to food/drink and also sitting and toilet facilities. What more could you ask for in an afternoon of knitting??

And my book sales are going well. I think I have made enough to invest in a couple of new books and I am really interested in 'Sock Innovation' by Cookie A, Amigurumi Two by Ana Paula Rimoli and Amigurumi Knits by Hansi Singh. If anyone has any reviews of these (good or bad) please let know :o) Happy Knitting!!