There was a lot of sock knitting going on this past weekend…
I finished the x-o-x-o baby socks from Interweave knits (sorry no photo yet). And I also finished one of my forest-colored-toe-up-socks. Here is where my dilemma started. I wanted to keep working on socks, but i really wanted to knit them on the 2 addi turbos that i bought just for sock knitting. I figured that the second forest-colored sock would turn out at a totally different gauge, so i should keep knitting
those on DPN’s. Ah, the perfect excuse to start another pair of socks.
I started new socks with some Lana Grossa Mielenweit Fun& Stripes that I picked up at stitches west. I LOVE this yarn. It makes regular color repeats and consistent stripe width. In that way it is unlike the Multiringel which makes stripes of varying widths. A also really like that it doesn’t have any of those white/colored checked areas in it. I am thinking I will use an afterthought heel since b’s always turn out so nice. In the
background is the forest colored sock that i finished, and this time I bound off loose enough to actually get the sock off! Yay!
I finished the body of the top-down raglan and i love the baby cable rib!
Today I noticed that a while ago I changed my ‘finished projects gallery’ to ‘finished projects gallery 2004.’ You might notice that there is not a gallery for 2005…. and i think it is because i have not finished anything! Good god. the year is almost half over and it seems that I have done nothing. I don’t have that much time to knit since school seems to devour my life (that’s what grad school is for), And I think that dividing my time between spinning and knitting it gives me less time to knit. I think that maybe i will make a yarn gallery - yarn is a finished project if it started out as fiber….
In the mean time, I will block and sew up the ribby cardi today. there is no reason for it
to be sitting in a pile un-assembled.
I have made a lot of progress on the incredible top down raglan sweater. I think today i might make it to the ribbing which I am going to try in a baby cable rib.
I also want to encourage everyone to stay tuned for Sheep to Shawl insanity! I have requested the official
application form for A Knitted Sheep to Shawl team at Lambtown USA.
We will have 4.5 hours to have a sheep sheared, spin its wool, and knit it into
a shawl. Training for the team begins June 1st. this will involve knitting and
spinning time trials, and of course learning to card properly. Everyone in the
area of
Dixon, CA should come to see us because we are likely to be quite a spectacle. Also… I am not sure that as of right now we
even have any knitting competitors, so if you and your friends posses knitting, spinning, and carding skills, come race us!
Reason #415 to buy a hamster: The hamster powered paper shredder. i could really use this. i could have a hamster shred paper for my other pets - my composting worms.
- #CraftCon 2008 is this weekend - I'll be there!
- #Has anyone tried "retro-clean"? It is a detergent for cleaning old linens. Sounds nice.
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