Alice Jean

The June pattern of Six Socks . Easy and fun to knit. I did them toe-up, magic looping two socks at one time. No gussets. They fit great. The used sock yarn is 75% BFL/ 25% nylon, named 'Roses'.

Actually I was thinking to put down ' Ravelry ' as title, following the tendency of many bloggers lately. Yesterday I got their invitation. Reading through the guidelines I found out I should better use FireFox with Ravelry. No, I did not download it, I think it can be interesting to find the bugs while using IE. But the main reason is I am very used to Internet Explorer of course, LOL! Another thing was I have to use Flickr for my photo's. So I have to transfer a lot of pictures once more. And that means a lot of work, because I decided to browse all my folders again in order to find all my knitting and dying projects (I'm more organized in this for only the past year and a half). I found far more than I thought I had, so now I am questioning myself what to and what not to add to Ravelry. For now, I want to share some of those pictures with you on this blog. They are about 3 years old :). My first attempt to embellish a soaker. The soaker was knitted of Texelaar wool h...

As we are in love with historical sites, especially ruins of castles and abbeys, we have an English Heritage Membership . And when the weather is fine, we like to visit one of those sites. Yesterday we have been to Peveril Castle , which is actually a keep. The views of the Peak District from there are really stunning! This photo shows exactly what a wonder nature is. Where ever humans have build, nature will always find a way to break through. It is amazing. View of Castleton ('castle-town').

We live in a rural village. There is not much to do, sometimes the local news bulletin mentions a crime committed, things as set fire to a 'for sale' sign, troublesome people removed from the cricket field etc. The bus is running only once in an hour, no service after 6 pm and on Sundays and Bank Holidays. Of course there is no superstore, but we do have a nice few local shops. One of them is the charity shop. Doortje loves it for the toys, I like it to browse for books. Today was our lucky day. Maybe you remember how she took the ladybug-beads from a earlier post . Now she has found herself a bag full of those insects. This does not mean I got back the beads. She is very happy with her new treasure and told everyone she has 'some more ladybugs'. They live happily together in her dolls house. And I found another knitted toys book! These pictures will give a good impression: Now I need to find some time to knit some of those cute toys. Maybe instead of blogging about kni...

Darcy is a very good friend of mine. Although we have never met each other in real life and there is a lot of distance between us (she is in California, I am in the Northwest of England), she feels like a sister to me. We email a lot, almost every day, about all kind of things. Because she is recovering now from some major surgeries, I felt I had to make her something. She told me once she loves greens and Elfine , so it was not difficult to decide what it would be. The wool I used is 75% BFL/25% nylon superwash sock wool, kettle dyed by myself. It was the first time I knitted with this wool. It is very soft, has however a slightly tendency of splitting.