Category: socks

  • hang on a second!

    Whoa, whoa, whoa. I was just digging in a portion of the stash (yep) and found the third ball of Kidsilk Haze that I bought for the Treeline Striped cardigan – meaning, I only actually used two skeins, not three. And now I have an extra ball (along with an extra skein of the brown W4…hmmmm).

    It’s like free yarn, or something!

    Random sock-in-progress shot. I’m working on a toe-up gusset, trying to figure it out on my own without looking at the many available patterns.

    gingerbread dude socks

    Yarn is Socks that Rock lightweight in Gingerbread Dude – love it!

  • in the midst of the storm

    It was pretty to watch, but a pain in the ass to get around in! I did quite enjoy the quietness of the city under the blanket of snow – people staying in, very few cars on the road, all that jazz.

    in the midst of the storm

    Wish I could say I stayed in and baked cookies or something, but instead I went to work and my students (troopers, they were) cooked up some fabulous handpainted yarn. Then it was off to a house full of people and cookies.

    Today I’m enjoying the view from inside, knitting along, and watching the snowplows go by.

    after the storm

    And I finished the Ultramerino socks.

    Ultramerino 6 socks

    There was plenty of yarn left over from one skein – probably about eight grams.

    leftovers

    Specs, again: 3.25 mm needles, 48 sts, 3×1 rib and eye of partridge heel flap.

  • achoo!

    I’ve been rather sneezy today, especially tonight – autumn allergy season, I guess! I was in the garden for an hour or so this evening picking tomatoes, another fifteen pounds probably. The plants are really starting to go so I tried to pick all the tomatoes from the plants that are really on the way out (ie. crispy).

    I’ve been having a bit of a project-flitting thing this week, but I did manage to finish off a long-standing sock.

    one down, one to go

    One plain toe-up sock in sweetgeorgia sock yarn, in “fondant”. It’s pretty wild – and the ice blue did this crazy thing on the leg, following a perfectly normal spiral on the foot –

    vertical stripes

    The other side of the leg is the same – so I’ve got two vertical stripes running up the sides of the leg. Let’s hope the other sock goes a little more quickly!

    I’ve got another *finally* finished minor FO to share, but I’ll leave that for tomorrow – they’re entirely weather inappropriate anyway. Hey Autumn, when’s that cool weather coming? Because seriously? Thirty degrees celsius is wayyyy too hot for the first week of fall.