After yet another short winter, spring is starting to show it’s first signs, in almost every corner here. There’s no way to ignore it or to feel sorry for our short winter because these early signs are showing colours and flowers with the strongest impact on one’s eye and soul. On my recent morning walks by the park, it became really hard to get concentrated in a fast enough healthy walking pace. I find myself walking so slowly and stop so often on my walk, to admire these early spring flowers and their fresh existing and colours – nothing short…

As I started knitting socks, sock wool became a new yarn-y obsession for me. I wasn’t aware of it, when I just started. Didn’t know that there is such a fascinating hand dyed sock wool out there. It is safe to say now that I slowly became kind of a sock wool hunter. Sock wool became an new inspiration for me ever since I started to knit socks. Strip-y sock wool inspired me on my Stripes and Colours blanket designing.On my research (mainly through Instagram and Pinterest) I discovered a few different wool dyers and one of them was Eden Cottage…

Hello and welcome to another sock post on my sock knitting journey. Today’s post is all about pair #7 that was knitted following a sock pattern purchased on Ravelry. In this pair I wanted to experience few new stitches and techniques. This is a pair that made me feel like I’m a real sock knitter and not a newbie anymore. For the first time I knitted a pair of socks, following a pattern which is not from Christine Perry step-by-step patterns. After knitting 6 pairs following Christine’s detailed patterns, I was ready to try something new. Learning new techniques makes me…