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Hello! It’s Socktober, the month when when I like to splash my social media feed with my favourite item to knit, SOCKS!

Every Saturday in October, I’ll have a new blogpost about handknit socks.

Why knit socks?

PORTABILITY: They are the perfect size for a travelling project. I can easily put it in a small project bag and carry it around from one knitting group to another. I like using a Japanese Knot Bag. It has one long hand that you slip thru a longer one which now becomes a wristlet to tote my sock project around.

Japanese Knot Bag available in my online Ko-Fi Shop

What sock am I knitting right now?

I’m hosting the 52 Weeks of Socks KAL until the end of the month. Knitters who are knitting along, have chosen a pattern based on the week their birthday falls on. Then knit the pattern that corresponds with the number from the book 52 Weeks of Socks published by Laine.

My birthday falls on week 7 the year I was born, so I’m knitting Rocking Chair.

If you have or can get hold of the book, join the Dublin Knitwork KAL until the end of the month.

Happy Knitting,

Diane

definition of inaugural : [adjective] marking of a beginning

Hello and welcome to my first blog post from the VillaMaker Studio.

I am no stranger to blogging, and took a hiatus from my musings on this particular platform. I noticed things have changed here on WordPress and I’ve had to re-learn the interface, vocabulary, and techie terms. All so new to me, that I asked my Google Assistant for definitions and examples.

The VillaMaker blog shell was created some time ago and I’ve been waiting for just the right moment in time to sit down and write.

This past Sunday afternoon, I had a lovely meet up with Evin and her friend, Ceci. It was an impromptu and very enjoyable coffee and meet up in Dublin. I was in the company of two amazing and awesome women who have found and defined their creative space.

Coming down from cloud nine on my journey home, I sat down in the VillaMaker Studio (it’s really the box room in our home) and wrote in my neglected journal about my experience that Sunday afternoon in a coffee shop.

Midori Traveller’s Notebook, Filofax Clipbook, Leuchttturm 1917

Upon reflection, creative inspiration flourishes a sense of awareness and a perspective that I’ve never seen before. I knew today was the right time to write the first blog post under the VillaMaker banner.

How many times do we focus on one thing, perhaps dwelling on the lack, absence, challenge in front of us…and not notice the beauty of the space, opportunity potentially on either side of us? ~Cecila Nelson-Hurt

This is my perspective, mindfulness…my awareness of what I hear, what I see, what I smell, what I touch and what I taste.

Diane

Author: villamaker

Socktober is Here!

The Inaugural Post