The importance of taking photos of knitting

Date: 07 October 2009 10:56:00

Just a quick note to other wibloggers - have you seen the WISE thread on the boards recently? It might be worthwhile popping over there and announcing your interest in participating.

Well, I've got some photos, as promised. Do they need explanation? Not really, but here goes.

The hat - a somewhat mis-shapen lump of dirty lilac.

Really not looking impressive, is it? Hmm how to make it look better? Ah, put it on a head. Right - I am in the house alone so the only head is mine. Oh well, I was bound to put up a picture of me sometime. Here you go:

Oh no, there seems to be a pool of grey that leaked onto the photo. Ah well.

There is also the Strictly Sock, currently moving slowly up the leg as I try to figure out how long I want it to be. The lovely spiral effect I was getting on the foot was ruined by the geometry of the heel, but you can almost make it out still.

For those that are interested, it is a 5 stitch pattern repeat from either Sensational Knitted Socks or More Sensational Knitted Socks. I've messed around with it a fair bit, but it is basically a toe-up heel-flap sock with the pattern across the top of the foot and all round the leg. I've used heel stitch on part of the gusset too.

And finally... proof that Seph is remarkably dim at times.

She posed for a photo while chasing the mouse, then lost vigilance to the extent that I managed to save the mouse and put it outside. You know the glass and paper thing with spiders? Totally works with mice too. I used a handy sieve and a Lakeland catalogue. (Gruesome bit alert) There is another chapter to this story. Yesterday I came downstairs to find that they had thoroughly dissected a mouse-like mammal all over the kitchen floor - thankfully tiled, but still annoying. Do I mind more when they bring animals in and eat them or when they leave them whole for me to dispose of? I don't know.

Right, back to transcribing interviews for my dissertation.