Mini Archie's April Furtle Around The Blogosphere

Hello and welcome to the April Furtle! Once again, the month has got away from me and I haven't managed a mid-month blog post, but I did manage to write my Q2 FAL list, so I'm counting that as a partial win!  I have high hopes for a May blog post because I'm almost finished the socks I'm knitting for a friend and I'm going to try to blog all my finishes this quarter.  ('All' sounds like I'm expecting loads but, in truth, I fear it's going to be a thin month for finishes.) Oh, and I've started catching up on the Summersville stories, so perhaps I've managed more blogging than I'd realised?  Just not 'posts'...


As I said, I've been knitting a pair of socks for a friend and have used my Socker's Rule for the first time (I got mine from My Mama Knits), which made it a lot easier to quickly check whether the foot (and leg) was long enough - I wasn't sure it would be much faster/easier/clearer than a tape measure, but I have to say that I do like it.  The only problem with it is that it doesn't fit in my knitting pouch and I wish they did a folding version...  (And also that if you're knitting a size 12 sock, then the ruler isn't long enough.  Fortunately, I don't knit any socks that long!)

And here are the socks, almost finished and just requiring Kitchener stitch to close the toes and then ends to be darned in:

See why I'm fairly confident of a May finish?!!

That's all the crafting I've done this month as I haven't been well enough to do anything else, but at least I've managed something as, at one point, all I'd done was cast on two socks!  I do hope your months have had more crafting in them!



Linking up to the April Furtle

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Mini Archie has taken a liking to the socks:

It's luffly and cosy in here, but mine nose is cold..

I finks that's a bit betterer!  Now, this is for I, yes?

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