Category: socks

  • on vacay

    Ahhh, now that’s the stuff. Wake up late, stay inside in the coolness watching Sabrina (the newer version) on tv and spinning some gift yarn, going outside to pick fruit and take photos when the fancy strikes. Lots of photos ahead!

    This is my big sweet cherry tree. Photo taken from the deck, so it’s like a mid-height view. It is *covered* in cherries. Lots of clumps, so it’s hard to show them all, but –

    It’s one of them grafted-together trees, so it’s got different kinds of cherries growing on it – the ones at the top that are looking lovely and dark (and are too high for me to currently get at with an 8-ft ladder) while the ones near the bottom right are the light yellowy kind.

    I think megan h. is coming over tomorrow to pick cherries – and I’ll probably be giving them away to just everyone! Perhaps getting into some cherry preserves making…it’s really too horrible that my boyfriend is allergic to cherries. I’m thinking cherry ice cream (I made dark chocolate ice cream today, with a custard and everything, and it turned out very, very yummy). And then there’s the sour cherry tree as well – pie!

    Raspberry ‘patch’: this is the biggest clump of raspberry bushes, but they’re all around the house – they just keep spreading! Raspberry sorbet, here I come…

    One last garden shot – my container veggie garden, growing quite well. The three in the back are all different kinds of tomatoes. Left to right in the front, eggplant, burgandy beans, carrots, and squash – I know those last ones are little right now, but I know the squash and beans are pretty fast growing. We’ll see.

    In the theme of green and red, some yarn and knitting!

    Wool/silk two ply. Love those greens!

    The start of a handspun sock. Thick-ish (2.5 mm needles) but hey, they’ll be out of my handspun!

  • sock sock sock

    Three socks on the go – how did that happen?

    From left to right: plain sock in Vesper sock yarn, “Strange Little Mama” (ah, a throwback to my black-and-red days); shortie sock in Trekking; completed toe-up sock in leftover Lorna’s Laces “Irving Park”. I’m feeling the short-row-heel love. I should get that second toe done so I can knit the foot in class tomorrow…

    New yarn, a bit of a departure for me – pale greens, blues and pinks, with sparkle.

    Coming soon – rowanspun jacket inches enters the last hundred metres; a question of colour.

  • hoo boy

    I am freaking out about the two exams I have left – one on Monday night and one on Tuesday afternoon. So I probably won’t be around the next couple days! But today I’ve actually got a couple of FO’s…

    First off, a longstanding project, the Whitby socks.

    Whitby socks
    Pattern: “Whitby Socks” from Knitting on the Road by Nancy Bush
    Yarn: Louet Gems Opal, 2 50 g skeins
    Needles: 2.5 mm bamboo circ
    Finished: May 5, 2006

    Why’d these take so long? Fun, easy to remember pattern; pretty chunky, soft yarn – well, I was saving it to do at work, and I did do most of the knitting while I was there (and since I was only in one day a week, I wasn’t getting that much time in on them). If you counted the actual days I worked on this pair, it’d certainly be less than a week. They really are fast, I just took my time.

    The finished Dulaan raglan:

    Cute sweater, super fast, and a stashbuster! I just hope it fits someone.

    I made another hat, too – I was running out of both of the colours, so I just alternated them at the top.

    And although I should really be spending about *all* of my time studying, I have done a wee bit of spinning as well (hey, gotta go something to unwind before bed). The white skein is one ply of merino and one ply of tussah, and is soooooo soft. I’ve got another skein of it done, too (slightly smaller skein). I think I shall dye it a slate grey-blue, perhaps. The one in back is the last skein spun up from the batts I got at the Frolic, a nice pinky-purpley-heathery colour.

    Have a good couple days! I know I uh…won’t.