She Still Knits!

(I am regularly amazed and delighted at the generosity of miniaturists, in sharing both their knowledge and their stuff.  The lady who gave me the big Golden Lion Inn a few years back phoned me last month and said she is retiring -- from making miniatures, not admiring or owning them, as I'm pretty sure you don't retire from that! -- and would I like to have her stuff?  Of course I said yes.  Among the little treasures were these three House of Miniatures kits and this figure -- even though I don't "do" dolls generally, I got a big kick out of this one, since she looks a lot like me! even the slightly tired smile.)

But yes, despite the volume of not-knitting stuff on this soi-disant knitting blog, which may be excused lately because of the summer heat, I do have a bit of knitting on the go at last, though I confess that it is not only a pair of very plain socks but is in some wool I've had in a drawer for at least a decade, and was orphaned even then, from a stash that came from a yarn shop that was closing and made the rounds of multiple knitters at David's work but nobody wanted this so he brought it home to me.  (Like Maria's homely dress at the beginning of "The Sound of Music" -- "The poor didn't want this one.")

It has been a very long time since I worked a full-sized piece of cross-stitch, but for my birthday I got two sampler charts --

one of the band sampler designs from Long Dog Samplers, whose catalog is filled with wonderful, and wonderfully quirky, things, and a Quaker-style sampler from ByGone Stitches --

also with sentiments very meaningful to me.  I am starting with the "Froth and Bubble" but I was only able to decide between the two by remembering that I have been mooning over that since the spring, I think, and only recently saw the Quaker one.

These are gigantic compared to my usual petitpoint, and since they will have to be worked on a table frame will not only take quite some time but will not be portable -- unlike knitting on a pair of socks!  A bit of handwork for every situation, as they say.  (Don't they?!)

Comments

[Toffeeapple]

Hello! Do tell how you cast on the sock?

Are things fine and dandy over there - have you Autumn yet? It is mostly either wet or very damp here though we have had moments of sunshine which are very welcome.

I like your doll, really like you?

[Sarina]

Great projects! Your hands will stay busy.