Again its been too long!!

Ive not Blogged in ages! I am appalled at myself! but my excuse is that I am happy and have nowt much to moan about! thats my excuse and Im sticking to it!

My Knitting life is full and varied, Ive been teaching myself new techniques thanks to several books that my lovely man bought me for xmas,

this book had me hooked, and I sat for several days casting on and frogging until I actually managed to suss the concept! not sure that I will ever actually use this and make anything, but I was determined that it wasnt going to beat me!
I must say that I started to feel a bit stupid on day two when it still didnt click, and I was still frogging and restarting! then I had a Yoda/Luke moment and used the force so to speak! I was giving in too easily and not actually reading the pattern properly! Never assume they say! and I was assuming!

After that I was sailing along nicely, its quite a dense fabric, and Im sure one day I will make a blanket out of lots of sock yarn squares, But as I'm not really a jumper person I doubt that Id ever use any of the patterns.

I also had this book the dress on the front sold it to me, I love this kind of look, and there are several really nice pattens in this book, I would rather knit in the round and from the top down if I possibly can, I hate seams, mainly beause Im really rubbish at them, and haven't yet had a blinding revelation as to how to make these things look good, mine always look wrong to me, Im never really sure as to which stitches im supposed to be joining! so subsequently I always try and knit things that dont need joining or at least are joined but picking up stitches which I can do rather well.