I have sock. I don't have a domain name.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

In between a little bit of this and a little bit of that, I finished up another pair socks.

Pattern: Child's First Socks from Knitting Vintage Socks by Nancy Bush
Yarn: Curious Yarns in Ocean, one skein. It came with Dottie. Thank you Hazel!
Needles: US1 dpns

These were originally intended for my BFF but halfway through the first sock I changed my mind, and now I'm giving these to my SIL. Baby blue is her favorite color (I think). These came out really tight but since the yarn has a 25% nylon component to it, I'm not too worried about it.

Just love this pattern. It knits up so quickly.

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Lately I've been thinking that I really need to change the url for this knitblog. When I first set it up I wasn't exactly thinking long-term, so I simply created a subdirectory under this existing domain, which I have used as an online photo album since 2001, and named it Clog.

I rather regret that choice.

It's supposed to stand for "Cat log." Weblog by Cat. When I see that clog in the url, or type it in, that's what I say in my head, and it's what a picture. Me, Cat, writing a log. Mew mew mew! Type type type!

But unfortunately that's just me and I alone have access to my brain, so for you, when you see the word clog, your mind's eye is probably conjuring something less savory.

A very unhappy toilet, perhaps? A drainage system gone awry? Arteries?

Dutch windmills?

Or maybe I'm overthinking this.

I do want to set up a dedicated knitblog domain though, if only to keep my original photo album site completely separated from this knitting one. A handful of personal friends and family have found this blog when they were googling for the other and hi if you are one of those people for the love of God please don't tell me that you're reading this. A good friend recently told me while we were socializing pleasantly at another friend's wedding that he had found this blog on G00gle, and suddenly it got real hot and my dress ripped off and there I was sipping my cocktail in the nude.

I have no problems being read (judged) by total strangers but in no way can I handle being read (judged) by people I know. (Unless of course you also knit. Then it's totally OK.) I feel completely open and vulnerable. The way I portray myself in this virtual universe is in many many ways completely antithetical to the way I am in real life, so having them collude out in the open is just all kinds of wrong. It would be like seeing Jerrica and Jem in the same room! Clark Kent and Superman hanging out! It just can't happen!

I know this makes little sense if any, but that is how I must live my blogging life in order to function properly in this universe.

Anyway. I'm thinking of possible domain names, and the obvious one is of course domesticat.com. Unfortunately it's already taken (and worse, it's not even being used) .net is also taken, and I don't want .org.

What name to choose, what name to use...I'll have to think about it more.

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Socks: 18; Me: 0

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

It's just useless. Utterly, completely useless. It's so less than useless it's usenil. Usezilch. Usekaput.

Mwahaha, I win! Again!

I simply cannot stop knitting socks.

I give up.

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Child's First Sock. But my last.

Friday, January 19, 2007

My last sock for this week, anyway.

Pattern: Child's First Socks from Knitting Vintage Socks by Nancy Bush
Yarn: Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock in poppy; just over 1 skein.
Needles: US1 dpns

I cannot believe how quickly these finished. 5 days of off-and-on knitting! I speak in the passive tense only because I hestitate to say that *I* finished these quickly. I mean did I? Or should credit be given to the Unseen Voodoo Sock Fairy living under my seat?

Do you see? Do you see the mirror-imaged shells? For the second sock I read the pattern chart from left to right, instead of right to left, and changed all left-leaning decreases to right-leaning decreases.

But what charts, you ask? Because there were no charts in the instructions. WHY that is I will never understand. I drew out the chart myself because trying to read them as text made my eyes go numb. I will never ever understand why people insist on writing out patterns in text when a simple chart is so much clearer and more efficient, and less prone to mistakes.

Like, why write out sl1, k1, psso - which at first glance appears to be 3 whole stitches to work - only to have a time lag as your brain realizes, Oh wait that's a decrease, when you can just have one lowly symbol to represent it? All that's needed to comprehend is a quick glance. No mental translation necessary!

ANYway, the socks are not for me. It turns out I wasn't done with my Christmas knitting afterall, even though I kind of sort of gloated that I had. I know! Christmas is now way over! But because I was traveling over Xmas with my family, I didn't get a chance to give out the presents to the inlaws, and I also ended up shuffling the original line-up by giving some stuff to my immediate family that was intended for the inlaws.

At the end of the day I had the Pomatomus anklets to give to my SIL...but the more I looked at them the more I disliked them. I knit these things back in the summer when anklets seemed like a good idea. But who wants to wear anklets in the middle of winter? What's the point? One of the best parts about wearing handknit socks is pulling them up over your legs. Mmmm...scrumptious, warm socks all over. I thought it was a waste of a good pattern and good yarn, and that it wasn't good enough to be gifted.

So I tossed those silly anklets out, and with a few weeks extra buffer I was able to start something new. I definitely feel good about gifting these.