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Rain non-stop

It's been raining the whole day today! I woke up listening to rain, and have been looking at it really the complete day; there's been no pause whatsoever.

Luckily our backyard jungle seems to enjoy it.


I've also been working on my ankle socks, comfortably indoors.


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Zeepy's Bag is done!

See, I made it!

 

Knitted from acrylic but pretty nice yarn, with 5mm needles, exactly according to the instructions (and of course without gauge swatching - it ended up bigger than the original).

 

I also knitted the side in a lighter colour, and added some basic cabling.

 

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The socks are ready

I made it, my first real pair of socks is ready and in use. The new owner seems happy enough to have recieved them (well, he saw me working on them hard), but to be honest they are not the best-made socks I've seen.

 

I chose the wrong cast-on, made the heelpflap bit weird, and picked up way too many sticthes - and decrased far too slowly to fix that mistake. Did I mention I had too big needles? Or well, maybe not, the airy effect is nice, but the new sockowner is concerned they'll break right away. They might, who knows.

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I'll swatch next time, promise!

A word (or a picture) of warning to all you out there who won't swatch. Remember my hat I was knitting a week back? Here it is knitted up. Nice, huh? 

 

I thought it just might be a big too big for anyone, so I simply frogged it.

Now I'm thinking should I try to knit the hat again, or just to use the yarn for something else.

 

The hat was really fun to make; I actually got a serious knitting need last monday and practically finished it in a few hours. 

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