Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Knitting Etc.

  • New Socks

    The mister has a new pair of socks, knit of Fleece Artist Trail Socks. This is a merino-nylon blend and quite a lovely firm yarn. The colourway is called Hercules. You can see the colours from Fleece Artist on this page of their site. They’re in alphabetical order so just scroll down to find Hercules.…

  • Currant Jelly

    One of the great joys of summer for me is canning. My kitchen is always busy in July and August (and even into September), so I thought this year, we could talk about some of my experiments. I’m always tweaking an old recipe or trying a new one. This month, I made currant jelly. I’ve…

  • Another Kauni Cardigan

    Kauni Effektgarn is a self-striping yarn with long gradations of color which I like a lot. It feels kind of rough when you knit it but you wash it after knitting, and hey presto, it fulls and becomes amazingly soft. Plus the colours rock. Years ago, I knit a sweater out of this yarn for…

  • A Tale of Two Skeins

    It’s Fibre Friday and today’s post could have been called Second Sock Syndrome. Second sock syndrome refers to the a knitter’s tendency to make the first sock then not quite get around to making the other. It’s a lot like Second Book Syndrome, which writers are said to experience – the first book is written…

  • A New Hat

    I haven’t shown you any knitting lately because I haven’t finished many projects. I have a number of bigger ones on my needles and they just go on and on. BUT, I did finish this hat. It’s very fuzzy and soft. The best way to block a beret is on a dinner plate, which is…