New Years Day 2010

I have been thinking about starting a blog for quite some time and the 1st day of the New Year is probably a good time to start. I have also just been given a new laptop for Christmas which will also make it a little easier.

Well today has been quiet. I spent some of the day making batch of bolognaise sauce for my son Andrew to take back to Uni on Sunday and also made a nice lasagne for dinner.

Knitting wise I have started knitting a pair of socks from the toe up. This is my first attempt at doing this and although it took a couple of goes I managed to use Judy Becker's magic cast on. I am making the socks from a book called "Socks from the Toe Up" written by Wendy Johnson and the sock pattern is Bavarian Cable Socks. I am using 2.5mm needles although it suggests 2mm I just hope that this will not make too much difference. I am quite pleased with my progress and will post a picture of the result later on.

I have recently finished my 3rd project for my City and Guilds course. It is a striped jumper made in the round and although I had trouble with joining the sleeves to the body it ended up working out very well and I cannot believe that I have managed to work all this out by myself. I will also publish a photo later. I have now got to do all my back up work before the next class; this is the bit I do not look forward to doing.

Anyway this is the end of my first blog and I hope you enjoy reading it. Happy New Year.