I have actually been doing some knitting during my time in blog wilderness. Unfortunately, also during this time I've had exams, and Matt went into hospital while exams were on, so a lot of the stress during the period manifested itself as silly mistakes in my knitting (and bad exam marks, but enough about that), so a lot of it has been frogged.

I finished my Dad's socks a little while back, but neglected to post a picture of them.. until now.


Next time I'll use a toe up pattern, as I don't like how the toes turned out on this pair. I think I'll also try to knit them at the same time to make them identical. Even though it's probably more realistic to assume that one foot is slightly bigger than the other, I still like my socks to be exactly the same, which this pair isn't. All in all though, I'm pretty happy with my first attempt at socks.

I've also bought yarn, intended for a pair of socks for myself:



Despite the retina-burning shade of green, I think they'll look great as a pair of socks.

I usually knit a lot of small guage items, so it has been somewhat of a relief to start knitting with Inca. The zip up jacket is coming along very quickly, however I'm a little concerned about the fact the row guage is a bit out. It's resulted in the sleeves looking huge, so I'm a little worried that it will come out looking like a raglan/dolman sleeve when its finished. We shall see.



I have also finished the back of Matt's diagonal rib jumper, and had a fair bit of the front done, when I noticed the worst of my recent spate of silly mistakes. I've ripped a good 10cm out to get to the mistake, and it's now sulking in the corner, thinking about what it has done. It is also being punished by not having any photos taken of it today. That'll teach it a lesson, no doubt.