processpicture - red wool, sock
cuff and shaft

I have knitted something again after a long time. I had problems with my wrist, so I preferred to take a longer break.

After three attempts at a “Ladies Hat” from “The Penguin Knitting Book” – I unravelled everything again and am now knitting more challenging socks.

The top is a pattern that simulates plaits. The shaft is based on a pattern from “japanese Stichbible”.

By the way, the problem with the “Ladys Hat” was that the hat was much too small and I wondered if people simply had much smaller heads in the past? Apart from the fact that the instructions are so short and cryptic that I wonder how anyone could ever understand it. I thought I’d got the hang of it and understood it all, killer logic and all, but no. It just didn’t work the way it was supposed to.

“japanese stichbible pattern detail/cut from the book”