knitting for the Library

This is Libeary, the Mount Gambier Library's teddy.
He has 500 brothers who need a scarf each, knitted in the Library's theme colour of bright red.
It's easy: 6 stitches in 8 ply yarn on size 4.5mm needles, knit stocking stitch for 60 cm and cast off.
So the committee of Friends of the Library and anyone else who can knit or do Knitting Nancy (aka tomboy stitch) are all knitting madly to be ready for the Teddy Bears' Picnic on November 16th when Libeary will meet his toddler fan base.

knitting on Kangaroo Island

Watching pelican-feeding at Kingscote jetty.
Sockology went to Kangaroo Island with American friends.
It was cold and sunny and the long trip there and back meant plenty of time for guilt-free knitting.

Tofutsies!

Excellent fun to knit and what an interesting yarn - it's a blend of wool, soy, cotton and chitin. Chitin is made from crab shells and is claimed to be antibacterial. Hmmm. Anyway, Hannah likes them.

David might have enough socks

He has enough hand-knitted socks so that I can wash them once a week and there are still some left in the drawer for him to wear.

maizy socks

Maizy socks, knitted in a Crystal Palace yarn made from corn fibre 82% and elastic nylon 18% have, to everyone's surprise, worked out well. David had reservations about how they would wear, but no problems so far. He wears them on hot days and when he's working in the paddocks as they don't pick up grass seeds as much as the others.

socks in the Loire Valley

Joigny, River Yonne France.
I've knitted these Kaffe Fassett socks all through bus trips in the Loire Valley and finished them off while on a canal boat.
They have created great interest with one lady pleading with me to knit her a pair - but I've given them to the tour leader.

Noro Silk Garden socks

I didn't enjoy knitting these at all. The yarn is curiously springy and keeps folding back on itself; lumpy with bits of straw in it and it knits up hard and stiff. There were 2 breaks in the yarn and the colours are harsh - nothing like the sample shown on Simply Socks website.
A waste of money and my time!

Trekking hand art Mauritius socks

They look rather like Stephen's but quite a different yarn of 75% wool 25% polyamide so can be washed in the washing machine. While I was knitting I didn't like them much but now that they're finished I do. David has 11 pairs of hand-knitted socks so we've nearly reached his goal of 12 pairs.

NB: these subsequently shrunk so much they had to be given to Hannah for bedsocks.