Monday, June 30, 2008
Pattern: My own
Yarn: Sundara Yarn Sock in Limited Edition Peacock and Purple
Needles: US1 dpns
I modified a pattern found in my trusty Japanese stitch dictionary. It's basically a pattern of a pair of leaves, mirror-imaged at the "stems." I changed it to be mirror-imaged at the leaves (petals are back to back) (does that make any sense) and suddenly the stitch pattern looked like feathers to me, like a great plume you might see on a Vegas showgirl's headpiece.
The leaf/feather pair were then separated at the heel, with one half continuing down the foot. Threw in a stockinette runner so the beautiful colorway of the yarn wouldn't be completely obscured with complicated patterns, and some gutters in garter-stitch instead of the usual purl-stitch.
I won't lie: I mirrored the pattern after the Loksins knit for me last year by my Sockapalooza pal. I. Love. Those. Socks. Perfect color. Perfect fit. Perfect combination of yarn and pattern. I went through that stitch dictionary like a madman hoping to duplicate such a successful pairing for the Peacock and Purple colorway. Not sure if the stitch I came up with is totally successful...I'm thinking Pomatomus would have worked better...but then Pomatomus always works, Pomatomus looks great in all weather conditions, even humid ones, and besides I've filled my knitting quota on those. Very happy with these nonetheless. And you really can't go wrong with anything knit in Sundara Yarn, am I right? Right.
Filed Under: Completed Projects | Socks
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
I recently scored a skein of Sundara Yarn in the most beautiful colorway ever.
It's called Peacock and Purple, and when I opened the box, the sheen from the yarn shot a sea-blue glow across my face, and I wept. I wept. Then I wound it into a shiny blue cake and I knit with it, I immediately knit with it.
Here is a preview of my so-far unnamed socks. It's going really quickly, so hopefully I'll have a finished pair to show in no time.
Yarn is awesome.
Filed Under: Socks | Yarn Stash
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Pattern: Pomatomus
Yarn: Sundara Yarn, Ltd Edition Aqua Over Lilac
Needles: US1 dpns
I decreased the shell pattern to a 10-stitch repeat, giving a total of 60 stitches overall.
* Also, you omit rows 10, 11, 12, and 13 of both charts. The pattern is now a 10-stitch by 18-row repeat.
Aside from a pair of socks, it's been a really unproductive week. I mean really. un. productive. I've had this stupid itchy dry cough that peaks between midnight and 5am, despite the barrage of syrups and pills. I'm all bloodshot, drugged up and still coughing. I don't understand the reflex of coughing when you have nothing to cough up. By the way, have scientist figured out why we yawn? And isn't it weird that cats do it too? Yawn, that is. But they don't cough. Now why is that. If you've ever seen a coughing cat please let me know.
PS Rambing Rose cardigan remains in a heap in the corner, waiting for me to just take the 30 minutes already to finish the button bands. I'm still not in the mood for it. I'm visiting my parents this week in ATL, so I might pawn the job off to my mother.
Filed Under: Completed Projects | Socks | Pomatomus
Monday, March 31, 2008
For I have just knit the ugliest pair of button bands ever in the history of knitting.
Don't come any closer. I am ugly.
Poor Rambling Rose. What did you do to deserve such inelegant, pigeon-toed button bands?
All I did was pick up the selvege (slipped stitches) along the front panels, like we do when we pick up the slipped stitches along the gusset of a sock heel. Why did it pucker so much here? Did the ribbing of the button bands pull the fabric in? Should I have gone up a needle size? Should I occassionally knit into the front and back of a few of the slipped stitches to increase the pick-up count? Will you do this for me?
As far as mistakes go, this is pretty fixable. Easily fixable. In all the time I spent screaming "EFF! EFF ME! EFF me in the effing HOOHA," I could have ripped out the bands and redid them three times over. But for some reason I just so don't want to do it. I don't want to figure out how to knit a smooth button band when it shouldn't have required any thought to begin with. You're supposed to simply pick up the slipped stitches and, the end! But no! Now I've got to experiment with RATIOS and different needle sizes and whatnot so I've tossed it aside for the moment. I am angry at it. I am angry.
I'm seeking a little therapy by knitting socks again.
Pomatomus (or the Best Sock Pattern Ever) in Sundara Yarn "Aqua Over Lilac"
I'll finish the cardigan once I'm feeling a little more rational.
Filed Under: Rambling Rose | Socks | Pomatomus
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Thank you so much for all your comments about the kitchen. I'm looking forward to sharing more of the house. As soon as it's clean. We're in the process of hanging stuff up on the walls and I don't know WHY but the simple act of attempting to hammer in a little nail at various desired points has turned the entire living room upside down. You think oh, this'll take just a second to hang...until you realize this certain nail is not strong enough, or maybe invisible fishing string would work better - until it breaks on you - or you realize you need a ladder because the ceiling's much much higher in the new place, but you gave away the ladder to your brother-in-law because there was nowhere to store it here, so you have to wait until your downstairs neighbor comes home so you can borrow hers but she went away for the weekend. So three days later, all the tools are still out, furniture's askew, and nothing's been hung. Ergh. This is why I'm SO GLAD we don't have to do any major renovations. We really stink at house handiwork.
Hopefully knitting handiwork is another story.
I'm trying to finish up these socks by Christmas time. I have 3 mateless socks so far for 3 in-laws, each knit in Silk Garden Lite, each in their own colorways.
I was in pretty good shape to finish by Christmas until I decided I really wanted to finish my Malabrigo sweater first. Priority defaults to Me.
 So isn't this photo just...weird? Like I took a bad fall down the stairs and my front is now my back. Anyway, I finally settled on yoking it: knit two sleeves separately, in the round with dpns, then joined them to the body stitches to start knitting the round again. I'm doing raglan sleeves and added a little 4-stitch cable to the mix, for a tiny textural/visual pop against all the stockinette.
I plan to knit a cowl neck, not sure yet how wide or thick. I still have half a skein left to finish up the yoke and a whole 200+ yard skein after that so I have leeway to decide as I knit. Love the Malabrigo and the yardage. At the end of the day this sweater will only require 4 skeins.
The only thing that kind of bugs is that you can tell where one skein of yarn starts and a new one begins because the colors among the skeins are not the same. Ah well. Design feature. Aside from that, I am very very very pleased with the way this is fitting so far. Snug and warm but not too tight.
Filed Under: Socks | Tunic Sweater
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
Pattern: Entrelac Socks by Eunny Jang, from Interweave Knits Spring 2007
Yarn: 1 skein Koigu in brilliant blue (lost the band so don't have the exact info) & half skein Sundara Yarn in Bartlett Pear
These are brilliant. Entrelac in the round is so easy to do, and the colors! The colors! I am so in love with both these colors, especially together. If I had another skein of the Koigu I would have had the brilliant blue as the main color - I really love how that sock turned out - but I thought I'd play it safe do one in the blue and one in the pear. The results are very jolly and court jestery.
I kept these at average leg length, and also didn't go for the tassles. Although maybe I should have attached little bells.
After knitting the first sock (Bartlett Pear main color) in size 1 dpn's, I switched to 0's because the 1's were running kind of big. The 0's run a little small, but I'd rather them snug than otherwise. When I make these again I'll probably go back to size 1 needles, but knit 5-stitch blocks instead of 6, giving a total of 60 sts in the round. That's a good number for me.
Update: To answer some people's questions about whether the bumps on the inside of the sock are uncomfortable during wear, the answer is no! Not for me anyway. The bumps are soft, and in fact I really like the texture and the way the bumps squish against the skin.
Make sure you follow Eunny's suggestion of weaving the old color as you're picking up stitches in the new color at the beginning of every new round of blocks. (That barely made sense. Read her instructions.) I would imagine having to cut and to weave in yarn at every round would be a pain, and those bumps would not be comfortable to wear.
OK so now I am on a mission to redecorate our bedroom in these colors. I've been keeping an eye out for bedding, preferrably duvet covers, in exactly that shade of blue but haven't had any luck so far. Once I have that as the anchor, I'll really begin decorating in earnest.
Love these socks!
Filed Under: Completed Projects | Socks | Entrelac
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
I finished the Marina Piccola socks some weeks ago.
Not particularly happy with these as they are probably THE sloppiest socks I've ever made. I don't know what happened but my gauge for the second sock was so off that the leg is more than an inch longer than the first, the heel and foot is loose, and as a result I ran out of yarn just as I was getting to the toe.
Yuck. Bleh. I wasn't even going to post about them but then last night Duck took this shot as I was lounging on the couch watching baseball and since it contains all the ingredients for a crowd-pleaser - some new handknits, some older handknits, some handknits in progress, plus bonus! a fat cat - I thought I'd share.
Don't we all look comfy, with our animals and our yarns? I am wearing the aubergine bolero - celebrating it's 2nd birthday! - and knitting the entrelac socks. Try to disregard the fact that the soles of my socks look like the underside of a Swiffer cloth.
Veebs is not usually a lap cat but lately he's been feelin' the love. Meanwhile, as he spreads out luxuriously along the length of my legs and purrs that gentle, bumblebee purr of his, my little kneecaps are slowly being turned inside out.
Filed Under: Completed Projects | Socks | Marina Piccola
Thursday, October 11, 2007
I'm flipping on and off like a light switch here.
These are Eunny's Entrelac Socks from IK Spring 2007. I'm using Koigu in the loveliest shade of royal blue and Sundara Sock Yarn in Bartlett Pear, both given to me as gifts. La, I love presents. I love this color pair. It's now my favorite combo du jour, replacing green and purple which had a long and fruitful reign, especially in the old house. But no more. We had barely moved out when the new owners came in and immediately painted the green walls red, and now I must have royal blue and chartreuse in my wardrobe and my bedroom. Our new place has putty-colored walls that would look so much better in a Golden Delicious appley sort of color. Picture that in a bedroom with a rich royal blue duvet cover. Yummy. Anyway.
The Middle East-wrap cast on method for toe-up socks is so cool and so easy that it just about blew my mind. And after I did a couple of tiers of tiles I couldn't stop, giggling like a madwoman as I knit. Because I'm in on the secret: entrelac socks are the simplest things ever! And the outcome is so freaking cool. They're going to be finished in no time.
Filed Under: Socks | Entrelac
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
My Sockapalooza 4 socks arrived in the mail yesterday. The socks were impeccably knit and blocked, soft and clean and smelling sweet as a bunny after a bubble bath...For a few seconds there after opening the box I completely forgot how to knit and couldn't believe someone could make something so exquisite with their own two hands.
Knit by: Sara, formerly of knitwerk.com
Pattern: Loksins! I had never seen this pattern before.
Yarn: Sundara Sock Yarn. The red is actually more wine than true red. It's beautiful.
Bonus materials: French soap, cat treats, stationery and semi-solid Koigu! SCORE!
Now I know why my sister-in-law always gives me funny looks when I tell her knitting is really not that hard. It certainly looks hard, doesn't it?
A perfect fit. Swoon.
Filed Under: Socks | Sockapalooza
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
To prevent this blog from becoming the fetid pond of neglect and sorrow that it wants to be, I give you this.
It is called "A Sock and Hancock."
We match!
Marina Piccola socks, knit from my Koigu stash that before was in Grumperina's stash.
And that's all the Exciting News in Knitting I have for now.
Oh I also started a sweater. A real sweater, with real meat too! But more on that later. We must pace ourselves. I will say that this fall, sweaters will be making a miraculous comeback into my knitting queue. This season, they're going to be the new socks. You heard it here first.
Filed Under: Socks | Marina Piccola
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Sockapalooza 4 socks - and some extras - are ready for their sendoff tomorrow! I'm sending them on the early side because they are going overseas...
And so are we. There will be sun, sea, olives, drunken bees in lavender ready for harvesting, lots of wine and good good food. And family. Ah yes it's been a tough lifestyle we've been living these past few weeks I tell you. ;) (Though I have to say, boy am I tired.) Catch you in a coupla weeks...
Filed Under: Socks | Sockapalooza | Twisted Flower
Monday, July 30, 2007
Here at last is the pattern for the Drunken Bees Socks. Fair warning, the pattern is not laid out to a T. I've left out specifics like how to do a cable, how to knit a heel turn and the toe, and all those very macro details like how many stitches to knit across first before you start the heel, how to distribute stitches, etc. If you're an experienced sock knitter - as in you've knit at least one or two socks - you don't need to know exactly how, so I don't want to fluster myself trying to spell it all out!
All you need is the chart and you can work out the rest to your liking.
But feel free to contact me if something makes no sense or looks wrong.
For more photos, see here.
DRUNKEN BEES SOCKS
Yarn: Fingering weight sock yarn. To really show the pattern, use semi-solid to solid colors.
Needles: 5 size 1 dpns (or whichever method you prefer for circular knitting) for S/M foot, Size 2 for L foot.
Pattern is deliciously squishy and should stretch comfortably to fit.
For socks that pull in a little more, you can knit through the back loop of every yarn over that was done in the previous row.
CAST ON:
CO 69 sts. Distribute 17 sts on 3 needles, 18 sts on one needle
CUFF:
Repeat (k2, p1) ribbing until cuff is 1 inch long or desired length.
Begin last row of ribbing with a k2tog.
Now you have 68 sts to work leg pattern.
Slip stitches =
RS: repeat (sl1,k1) to end
WS: sl1, then p to end
LEG:
Work leg pattern chart 3 times, or to desired length (make note of where you left off).
HEEL FLAP & HEEL TURN:
Divide sts so that there are 33 sts for the heel flap, and 35 sts for the instep. Make sure you split in such a way as to allow two "honeycomb" patterns to continue down the side of the heel. I started the divide in the middle of a bee flight pattern. You might have to knit across some stitches to get to the start of heel.
Slip first stitch of every row. Except for the honeycomb patterns and the purl gutters, knit the heel in slip-stitch pattern, until you've worked 26-30 rows.
See chart above.
Follow flap with your preferred heel turn. I used a square heel.
GUSSETT:
Pick up the slipped stitches on side of heel flap, and continue chart pattern for instep.
INSTEP:
The instep is symmetrical. For the first and last 6 stitches of the instep, follow the first 6 stitches of the "bee flight" leg pattern chart (stitches 6-11). Or, just knit them in Stockinette. Or ribbed. Whatever you want.
Continue until desired length, then knit your preferred toe method.
Bzzzz!
Filed Under: Socks | Drunken Bees
Monday, June 25, 2007
Pattern: My own! I have christened thee Swarm Drunken Bees.
Yarn: Socks That Rock lightweight in Midsummer's Night
Needles: US1 dpns I finished them!
And then I sat for hours and hours more trying to think of a good name for them. Everything that I came up with was bee-themed, because I think the zigzag pattern looks drunk yet curiously deliberate, bzzzz like a bee in flight bzzzz, and the mini-cables on the side resemble honeycombs.
So I came up with
1. Bumblebee (too cutesy)
2. Honeybee (way too cutesy)
3. Worker Bee (too slavish)
4. Royal Jelly (too weird)
5. Beehive (maybe)
6. Swarm (hmm)
Yessss, swarm...I see a swarm of stitches swirling in and around each other. It's not the prettiest sounding word though, unfortunately. But a quick run through the thesaurus in my head came up with lovely words that conjured up such lovely pictures, such as locusts, plague, infestation...So back to Swarm it was.
Now I name you Drunken Bees! Back from a long day's work, intoxicated with nectar, buzzing and teetering and bouncing off each other just outside your honeycombed nest!
Close-up of heel: Slip stitch at the center, flanked by honeycombs which continue down from the leg, and purl gutter, and bordered by more slip stitches. Finished with a square heel.
At some point I will write up a pattern for these, probably after we
move (3 more weeks!). When I do it will most likely be a pseudo-pattern: more of a general
overview rather than stitch-by-stitch instructions. Really all you need
to know is the stitch pattern, and if you know how to knit a sock, you
can do the rest without explicit instruction, and use your favorite methods of constructing the heel, the toe, up or down...I just hate telling people what to do, especially when there's no right way or wrong way about it!
Bzzzzz!
Filed Under: Completed Projects | Socks | Drunken Bees
Friday, June 15, 2007
First Socks that Rock purchase as possible yarn to use for my Sockapalooza socks.
Socks That Rock | lightweight | Midsummer's Night shaded solids
I had no sock pattern in mind when I bought the yarn, so I picked out a something from my Japanese stitch dictionary. It's got some mini-cables, some 4-stitch cables, and a whole lot of ktog's and ssk's.
It is quite an interesting pattern. A little fussy, a little whimsical at the same time.
For the heel, I continued the mini-cables and the purl gutter down each side, and knitted a slip-stitch heel using the stitches from the main "wave" pattern. Then I finished it with a square heel.
This is a fine example of the technique commonly known as Making It Up As You Go Along.
I think I like it. Not sure yet.
Another thing I'm not 100% about is them STRs. I really love the base yarn, love the way it feels in the hand and the way it knits up, but I must say the dye job is completely underwhelming. The colors are muted, unremarkable, doesn't induce me to want to eat the yarn the way Koigus usually do. But it's the pooling, my GOD ALL THE POOLING, that I just can't ignore. Even for a shaded solid it does that icky, diagonal pooling, the unintentional blotchy striping which seems to be its trademark.
Seriously though. What is up with the diagonal pooling. You know of which I speak, I know you do. I noticed it on the first STR I ever knit with, so kindly given to me by Scout. Since then I've seen the diagonal pooling all over flickr. I see it now with the solids. It's so consistent that it drives me crazy, because, wouldn't it be easy to "fix" if you wanted to? Now I say this without having ever dyed a single skein of yarn in my life, and assuming that others want it "fixed" too, which they clearly don't because those things sell out like kittens at the kitten store. But like, could you paint/dye shorter lengths of yarn in the same color? Dye the each color interval more randomly? Something? Then there won't be so much pooling? Maybe...?
I do wonder a little how these socks have achieved rock-star status. Kind of like Obama. Hmm.
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Has everyone forgotten Dottie, because I sure have! Eeks oops sorry don't hate me! She's been reposing all this time in the office cubicle. Now she's finally enjoying the great outdoors, reposing on a bed of soft frilly peonies. It's one last hoorah before the flowers start fading away.
Filed Under: Postcards from Dottie | Socks | Drunken Bees | Yarn Stash
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Pattern: Twisted Flower Socks by Ms. Cookie A. As if I had to remind anyone.
Yarn: Cherry Tree Hill Supersock in Burgundy, one skein
Needles: US1
For: My Sockapalooza pal xoxoxo
Modifications: I have a favorite toe thanks to knitting Meida's Socks by Nancy Bush - decrease at each side of the foot every other row until you have a total of 32 stitches (or 8 sts on 4 needles), then decrease every row until there are a total of 8 stitches (or 2 sts on 4 needles), then cut the yarn, take a tapestry needle, thread the yarn through and tighten the hole. I find this makes for a very natural fit that curves nicely over the toes, much better than the straight edge produced when grafting.
So after posting about these last week I immediately ripped the first sock up past the heel so they would match what I did with the second sock, which was to follow the lovely heel pattern as written and extend the foot by another leaf pattern repeat.
We match now.
If you were to take a peek at this pattern, at the heel and foot chart, every single row of them meticulously laid out from bottom to top, all those twisted cables, traveling in a precise direction, where the tiniest of missteps would derail the whole effect, you'd probably want to rip your eyes out before having to start over again.
But it really didn't pain me to do this. I was so zen. It had to be done. I hardly demand perfection for myself; in fact I practically revel in my own knitting disheveledness. But for Sock Pal, for someone whom I will probably not meet in person? My socks will be my proxy. They will be my Goodwill Ambassadors. And like Angelina J0lie they will have to be perfect.
(Maybe I will name my socks Angelina J0lies. They are beautiful, they are complicated, and Br@dPitt would want a piece if he met them.)
And in any case, I just really enjoyed knitting these socks. No second sock syndrome in the slightest. They went by so quickly, despite all the slow-downs of cabling and having to refer to the chart. I'm not normally this patient, but I think having that entire chart for the foot written out that you could tick off, row by row as you finished, kept me focused and paced so that I wasn't constantly badgering myself with Are we there yet? How much longer? Can we go now?
I'm really glad I picked to do these socks. Sock Pal definitely made things easy for me by specifying semisolid to solid colored yarns. Picking the right yarn out of a whole universe of lovely yarns would overload my processes, but when you can disregard the variegateds (ie the hardest ones to resist), the patterns to choose from for strictly solids become obvious. Twisted Flower was obvious. And not only did I have a great time knitting, I was able to do it in confidence, without worrying whether or not my Sock Pal will like them.
Unless of course she thinks Angelina J0lie is ugly.
The only problem I have is to not mail these off right now. I hope I don't misplace them in the moving shuffle!
Filed Under: Completed Projects | Socks | Sockapalooza | Twisted Flower
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Ah, if only these were truly finished. I used an eye of the partridge heel instead of following the pattern for the first sock, then decided while knitting the second sock that I should have just used the pattern as written afterall (much prettier), and also while I was at it with all the inconsistent knitting, I went ahead and made the foot longer. If I were to keep these myself I would consider these done and call it a day, but I don't think my Sockapoolza pal would appreciate my mismatched/lazy aesthetics...
Duck and I are still here in Rhode Island until this evening. Kitty and her crew left yesterday. Man I just hate to be the last to leave.
Newport, RI
Filed Under: Socks | Sockapalooza | Twisted Flower | Travel
Friday, May 11, 2007
Pattern: Meida's Socks from IK's Favorite Socks. Pattern by Nancy Bush.
Yarn: Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock in Poppy, just under one skein
Needles: US size 1 Phew. I got a pair of socks with barely a skein of Poppy at my disposal. I actually decreased the stitch count by 2 for each pattern repeat, resulting in a pair of very small socks. They're too small for me (you can't see in this photo, but when I wear these the heel of the sock is practically at the soles of my feet), but just right for a certain diminutive mother whose feet are the size of a pixie's. I sent these off in the beginning of the week, and she's already received them, just in time for Mother's Day.
E-mail from her this morning: You are something, the gift is so marvelous, can't believe you have so much patient! Heh heh. So much patient.
And so much pink! Socks and spring are marvelous!
Dutch tulips from the garden
Flowering apple trees, Boston Public Garden
Pink blossom overload, Boston Public Garden
Meida's Socks, for Mom
Filed Under: Completed Projects | Life | Socks | Meida's
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Everyone, be proud of my unsocial, ungathery self, for I have done the previously unthinkable and joined a knit-along. Sockapalooza 4, everybody, Sockapalooza 4 and I are BFF's!! In fact I was so excited to get my pal's information last night that I immediately casted on and finished a sock!
Tada! Isn't it a beauty???
OK not really. I mean the part about having started the sock last night. It is definitely, without question, very beautiful, so much so that I will buy for my lovely little sock a little sparkly tiara and build her a little runway so that she may sashay her pretty self around the house for all to admire. You can thank CookieA for this brilliant pattern, called the Twisted Flower Sock.
I started it several weeks ago and have been knitting it very off and on. Through the first round of pattern I had a sneaking suspicion that it was going to be too big for me. I kept chugging along though, one because the pattern is, well, so drop-dead gorgeous, and so fun to do, and second, I was hoping that perhaps I would be assigned to someone who might specifically mention liking
- sock yarns with that tight beady twist (as Cherry Tree Hill Supersock has)
- solid colored yarns (this one's in Burgundy)
- and had a slightly bigger foot than me, maybe half an inch or so longer and wider...
If all applied I would be able to just go ahead and knit this for my pal.
And wouldn't you know it: Check, check, and check on all three counts!
I didn't follow the pattern through to the heel, fearing it would too loose.
But I might very well change my mind. It is only May (May!?!) afterall...
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So speaking of swaps, I'd like to take this final opportunity to thank everyone who participated in the Knitterly Letter Swap. I hope everyone enjoyed writing and receiving their letters. I did. There was a period where I had a letter waiting for me in the mailbox for 4 consecutive days. It was better than Christmas! I owe several replies...Anyway, there were a few snafus with lost letters, returned letters, etc. and I tried my best to follow up with people, but of course it's impossible to police and to make sure every letter gets to where it needs to go. Last week I paired up all letterless folks who contacted me with a "savior," and they sent their letters out to you almost immediately (thank you saviors! and those who volunteered but didn't get used). So I really hope all of you who joined have received at least one letter, and that you've got your letter-writing juices flowing enough to continue writing more!
Filed Under: Letter-writing | Socks | Sockapalooza | Twisted Flower
Friday, April 06, 2007
I can't wait to finish these (Nancy Bush's Meida's Socks from IK's Favorite Socks). Fingers crossed that I don't run out of yarn. I've got only a skein of Lorna's Laces to work with. :-\ I figured if I was able to get away with these Child's First Socks using just a skein, I could probably do it with these. We shall see.
Filed Under: Socks | Meida's
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Oooo. I am in a foul mood. Today we are experiencing what meteorologists up here in Boston love to call a "wintery mix." It starts as rain, with flecks of snow thrown in. That goes on for a hateful amount of time until you add some wind to it to get a hateful mix of driving rain and snow. Add some more of that hateful "blast of cold air coming in from Canada" now you've got an all-out blizzard. It's April and I hate it I hate it I hate it. These shenanigans would never happen in Barbados. Or Santa Fe (right?). Why am I still here?!
In knitting news. Kooch is at a point where I can actually start seaming. And yet, instead closing in on my first FO in over a year, I have this:
The Triumvirate of Sock. They can not be stopped.
Anna socks from Rowan 40 in Koigu.
Anastasia socks by pepperknit in Koigu again.
Meida's socks from IK's Favorite Socks, in Lorna's Laces.
LOVE this pattern.
What can I say. Tulips, magnolia and cherry tree blossoms and blue skies will not make their appearances here for another month yet. This is what I must do to tie myself over.
Desperate needs, desperate measures.
Filed Under: Life | Socks
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 Vin |