Or go Danish. For Christmas we roast a whole duck with prunes and apples in the cavity. We also roast a pork roast with bay leaf stuffed in between the crackling. The juices from both make a heavenly gravy. We eat it with braised red cabbage, boiled potatoes and caramel coated small potatoes (I know the last part…

I had that happen with an earwig in the towel I was about to dry my face in! I know earwig is “nothing” compared to big ass Aussie spider, but I was living in Denmark and we don’t really have big ass anything there. It took years before I stopped shaking and gingerly inspecting towels before every single use.

All in all it wasn’t that hard really. I read that you can get short circular needles, so you don’t have to use double pointed needles for the entire sock. I love my new 9 inch circular needle from Addi! I used this pattern: http://susanbanderson.blogspot.nl/2012/02/how-i-make-socks.html

Thanks. Olivia makes sure to do sniff and taste tests of my yarn. So far all has been approved. She even drooled on it in her sleep (eew).

Hear hear!

I finished my first sock! It took me three tries to get the heel right and by then I had decided it would be a short sock so I could get to the tricky heel quickly.

Those 12 moms must have forgotten how their babies were subjected to nipple IN THE FACE multiple times a day for months on end *rolls eyes*.

I was thinking areola too, just not sure where the line for outrage is drawn in US.

Completely off topic, but is that a nip slip or a mole in the header picture?

Thanks and thank you for the tips on brands. I’m in EU, so don’t have easy access to them though.

I think it weighs more than 5 kg (10 pounds). It would give you a magnificent headache and/or the buffest neck muscles in history.

You are most welcome. I’m happy I could spread the OMG feeling I had when I saw it my self :D

Thanks :) I’m using a 75% wool, 25% polyamid from Drops called Fabel.

I’ll have to try it some time :)

Thanks :) No I’ve only ever tried the DPNs around 10 years ago and then the small circular as of Friday. What makes it easier with magic loop? Is that one or two longer circulars btw? Your pattern is gorgeous! I hope to progress to stuff like that some day :)

Haha :D DPN = Double pointed needles (the short ones you traditionally use to knit socks with). Yep homemade socks are devine. So soft, warm and no itchy mark left after the elastic from the commercial socks!

I have started my first pair of socks for OH. No more “wrestling the hedgehog” with DPN now that I discovered a tiny (30 cm) circular needle! *high five*

No drag queen would be seen with that wig line. Honey get yourself a lace front!

Finally got image hosting to work (I think). Here’s some of my fancy granny squares. All of these squares are from the same ball of yarn.

Anyway, this is how the mouse toy is supposed to look with ears and all :) https://haakmaarraak.nl/cheeky-mice-free-crochet-pattern-nlen/