Beginings and Ends….

Beginings and Ends....

Of course right after I finish a post about my WIP’s and how I need to finish them before I start anything new, especially with the socks, I get in the mail my second installment of the Vintage Purls Summer Sock Club. Of course the pattern and the yarn is sooo stunning that I immediately had to cast-on!

I love these colours and I love that to socks don’t match instead are exact opposites! I did make some minor changes, I really, really hate garter stitch like really hate it so I replaced that with plain stockinette I have othe plans for the cuff to add texture just you wait and see! And it was kind of okay that I started this sock because of how these ones are looking.

Yep that’s the “sample socks” I really need a new name for these. I have about 4 or 5 rows till I start the ribbing which will be done lickety split. Most likely I will finish these tonight. My mind is already on which pair of sock I will start next and what pattern to do them in. these are the current options:

Knitsch(a new NZ dyer who also goes to my knit night) in pewter. I really like the feel and texture of this yarn and the colours are just well YUM! I’m not sure on what to knit with it though.

Fibro Fibers Nightfall yarn in blue, I love this yarn so very much it slowly fades from blue to black through out the 50g skein and is already wound into center pull balls. I have a design idea in store for this one but I’m not sure I’m ready to really sit down and hash it out maybe. Jen who runs Fibro fibers is amazing and I want 90% of her yarn I got this also in a bottle green and I want the deep purple and the aqua too. She also has denim and tomato coloursways that make my mouth water and I want to get them in the sock in enough to do a striped cardigan.

Yberry’s Street woman, this is just wow what a combo of colours none of which I actually like that much on their own but together just WOW!!!! This yarn just keeps nagging at me and telling me I should knit with it and I know that I should but what? Part of me thinks it needs to go back in the stash to be kept for later to be used in a shawl.

What do you think what should I cast-on? do you have a favorite toe up sock? comment and let me know

New Features

The longer I seem to have this blog the more I can see ways I can improve it. and so thus I have decided to start adding various features and will listen to requests.

Current Features:

Moved Blog – I moved my blog to the main url and am working on a redirect of the old url please if you have me on your links page please update these. and part of this move I have changed my blogs name to simply “Brooklynne Michelle”. The rest of my pages should be up soon too. P.S. this means you also need to update your feed please do that.

Patterns – I have been doing a lot of knitting over the years and I would say that over the past three years 92% of my projects have been of my own design. I like to think that these designs are rather cool and nifty so I have started offering my patterns online right now there is only one sock pattern and it’s for sale but in the future I will also include free patterns. If you have any questions please let me know via the new contact me button.

Sponsors – I have added a sponsors page. This is a page where I will link to people who are rather rad and sponsor this blog in some way. I though about this for a long time and decided that I wanted to make a seperate page for these instead of putting this on the front page. If you want be a sponsor for this blog please contact me.

Theme – I have changed the theme a lot these past few days looking for the right theme. I’m not sure I have found the theme I’m looking for so please bear with me while I continue to find the one I find perfect.

Future Features:

Made Mondays - I am going to start a weekly feature where I review handmade/indie craft and other things along those lines. I plan on starting it this next monday. I hope you like it and if your somone who thinks that a product of yours would fit this section feel free to yet again contact me!

Handspun – I have been spinning a lot recently and part of this means that I have ben spinning things that aren’t quiet my thing thus in the future there will be some of my handspun yarn for sale.

So those are the things that are coming up over here at chez Brooklynne I hope your as excited as I am.

head bands(now with pictures)

I’ve been knitting heand bands to keep my hair out of my face. Its at that stage where my bangs are always in my face….. And I wanted a cute headband….

So since I ripped out the wedgewood blouse(hate the was noro’s unevenness makes my knitting look uneven) so I’ve decided now that my hairs red and I have a bunch of green apple coloured yarn I shall have headbands I’ve knit three basic headbands from the following pattern *edit* I created a seperate blog to put patterns in ill put it in the side bar, but that link will also take it to it*/edit*

So now that I have three of these that are almost identical(I made one wider and one just 6 stitches wide) I decided I wanted one a lil defferent from any other headband so I’m working on a head band that will wrap around my head several times like women in ancient greece used to wear hopefully it will look decent

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