Christmas presents, giant cats and greetings from London

• Posted by Kamicha on December 30th, 2007 filed in Uncategorized

I love how the perspective sometimes does its tricks to photographer. The cat is actually small and man just over 180 cm…

Those are Cable Rib Socks from Favorite Socks: 25 Timeless Designs from Interweave book.

Note: I’m testing Amazon affiliate program. I don’t have dreams on getting rich with my humble knitting blog, but I would be more than happy to get my maintenance costs via advertising.

Mods: Thicker yarn for larger socks and some modification for the side cables. I did not like how the cable does not continue smoothly after leg part in the original.

These socks are mainly intended to be used inside. Our kitchen has ceramic floor and it gets very cold at winter. I love the yarn, it is Finnish lambswool, unwashed with natural gray color.

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This Christmas my husband and I gave each other a shopping trip to London. This is the first time I understood to search some yarn suppliers. Unfortunately small shops tend to be closed from Christmas to new year (at least Loop was). Of course there are department stores and actually I was pretty impressed about John Lewis’ yarn selection. And lots of yarn in sale, yay!

I took a sackfull of Rowan Alpaca Soft…

And some Rowan Wool Cotton in beautiful shade of patina…

I won’t introduce my clothes finds, but some shoes… …I love Topshop for great selection of very affordable and beautiful flats - and look those bone white platform shoes, yep, they are patent leather, not plastic…