#socks365

I’ve started a new project to help me practice my photography. 
I’m sure a lot of you have heard about Project 365. Well, I’m putting my own twist on it and calling it Socks 365. 
But it’s no fun to play alone, is it? 
So I’m challenging all of you to play along, too!

Take a picture of your socks (on you, or get creative!) every day and share them in the Ravelry group, or on Twitter (#socks365), on your blog, on the project365 website…

And who knows? There may even be prizes for those who play along… ^_^

You can follow my project on the Project365 website, on Google+ or on Twitter.

Photography Friday - Knitting Tokyo Style

Is there anything more cosy than sitting at home under your heated blanket and knitting away while your scarf-toting friends are banging on your door?

Window display for a shop that sold neither yarn nor knitwear, in Tokyo.

Photography Friday - In Deep Snow

You wish you were here. Wearing a fabulous hand-knitted mask and enjoying knee-deep powder snow on a bluebird day.

Admit it. You do.

Friday Photography: Daring Hexiblanket

Hexipuffs can pop up in the most unexpected places.
Being primarily of a yarnie persuasion, you would expect them to be highly afraid of running water.
not so! in fact, especially groups of hexipuffs sometimes crop up lichenlike on rocks and cliffs and riverbanks, perching precariously close to a soaking.

We should all be as open-minded and daring as those little hexipuffs.
So this week, try something you thought you aren't suited to, and see where it takes you.
As always, keep your camera ready and your eyes focused!

Points of Feeling Clever

Knitting on double-pointed needles makes me feel smart. It's a bit like juggling with toothpicks, but it's worth it.
Usually, when knitting in the round, I knit on one circular needle and magic loop* it.
When knitting hexipuffs, I use two shorter circulars because it goes a little bit quicker for me, and the cable of the needles I use (inherited from my maternal grandma, with love) are a bit stiff.

But for very small circular projects, like, say, the fingers of gloves, i find DPNs to be the best option.
I have a set of 5 bamboo DPNs in size 0 (2.00 mm) and they are slightly bent to my hands, making the knitting fly round and round and round.
Love.

*Fun fact, I was magic looping before I'd ever heard the term, and I felt incredibly clever for coming up with it. Then I started to read about knitting online and saw that I had just un-vented a thing that existed in book form. Go figure.

Friday Photography: Travelling hexiblanket

 It is a not very well known fact, but hexipuffs love to travel in groups. They are social creatures that enjoy the great out-of-doors.
They enjoy bike rides, picnics in the grass and climbing trees together.
Have you ever seen hexipuffs in the wild?
Keep an eye out and as always, have your camera ready.

Friday Photography: Hexipuffs on Branches

Three little hexipuffs, sitting in a tree

Precarious by the river

Hexipuffs in the wild. By the river, in a tree, up a branch?
The bravest of hexipuffs will often go out on a limb to get to the best views, dangling by no more than a thread over running water at times.
Are you as brave as a hexipuff?
Keep your eyes open, your camera ready and your needles close at hand.
You never know when you're going to see another puff in the wild.

Australian xmas tree

Friday Photography: Hexipuffs in the Wild

Bulbasaur in leaves

Shibui and Bark

 You never know when you're going to encounter a hexipuff in the wild.
So keen an eye out for the little squishies, and keep your needles ever at the ready!

Some hexipuffs like to hang out in trees, their eucalypt smell attracting plump, soft and squishy shapes to them.

Possum in Eucalypt

Friday Photography: Hexipuffs in the Water!

Bulbasaur's Rock

Mixed Berries Beach

 Everyone knows that hexipuffs like to be out and about.
But few realise that these brave and fearless squishies are so daring, they can even be found right by the water!

So make sure the next time you're at a creek, river or brook, you take a closer look!

You never know what, or who, you might find.

Keep your needles and your camera ready at all times.

Chinook Brook