Running around getting ready for a friend's wedding later today, so creepy LG is here to hold down the blog and wish you all a Happy Halloween! Have a great one, folks!
31.10.08
26.10.08
stripey smiley
pattern: a super simple basic sock in stockinette with a k1p1 cuff knit over 64 stitches with a short-row heel and wedge toe, alternating colors every 3 rows
designer: anyone who has ever knit a sock
yarn: Noro Kureyon Sock in a colorway I would highly recommend and gladly share with you all if I had bothered to save the ball band (DOH!)
needles: Addi Turbos US size#1
designer: anyone who has ever knit a sock
yarn: Noro Kureyon Sock in a colorway I would highly recommend and gladly share with you all if I had bothered to save the ball band (DOH!)
needles: Addi Turbos US size#1

Funny how the colors go in opposite directions. The stripey rainbow is inverted from one sock to the other. You see how the stripes get a bit muddy in parts? Yeah, I had to cheat a little to get them to stop doing that; I pulled a bit of one color until we got to a contrasting color again, cut all that yarn off, and started knitting again with the contrasting yarn so that the stripes resumed and the muddiness was no more. I repeated it in the second sock, allowing some of the same feathering for an intentional copy of the first sock. I am going to avoid this altogether in my second pair of stripey Noro socks by starting at a different point/color but allowing the colors to go in the same direction (if that makes any sense). Also, for my next pair of stripey Noro socks, I have re-skeined the ball into two separate yarn cakes to avoid the tangliness (and the ensuing exasperation) that I experienced while knitting these (I used different ends of the same skein). Ahem... I may have already started the next pair. What can I say? Maryse got me hooked on Noro!
23.10.08
not to be a self-promoting cross-poster...
...but I am totally going to be a self-promoting cross-poster and suggest you guys take a peek at a tutorial I put up on my softie blog for making a trick-or-treating tote bag. Enjoy!
19.10.08
18.10.08
inspiration from the garden

On a related note, man, I hope it rains a lot next summer too so that we have another crop of pretty-pretty dahlias again.
17.10.08
and how is your socktoberfest coming along?
Mine is going swimmingly! I started these on Saturday during a trip to Webs with some friends. I didn't bring a knitting project with me, so I grabbed some Noro Sock because I wanted to start something then and there. Besides, after seeing these and these and these and these on ravelry, I have been wanting to make myself a pair of the stripey Noro socks for a while now. I actually bought two skeins thinking I would stripe them that way, but the colors didn't work out so well together. So I took a cue from Caro and used different ends of the same skein. Now to cast on for the second. I am hoping to have a finished pair come Monday. *gasp!* Does this mean I will have met my very modest Socktoberfest goal of finishing at least one pair of socks? We'll see, Wabbit, we'll see....
16.10.08
you know what's insane?

15.10.08
mittens for minty
pattern: Chapter 5, Pattern 1 from Magnificent Mittens
designer: Anna Zilboorg
yarn: Berroco Ultra Alpaca in colorways I can't recall and whose bands I threw away because clearly I am smart like that (less than one skein of each color)
needles: Addi Turbos US size#1
modifications: I did a slightly different cast on, and I knit a 1x1 ribbed colorwork cuff
designer: Anna Zilboorg
yarn: Berroco Ultra Alpaca in colorways I can't recall and whose bands I threw away because clearly I am smart like that (less than one skein of each color)
needles: Addi Turbos US size#1
modifications: I did a slightly different cast on, and I knit a 1x1 ribbed colorwork cuff




14.10.08
so lucky
I may not be the most outgoing gal at the party, but I am certainly the luckiest. In a recent swap some friends and I put together, I walked away with these beauties designed and knit by the freaking fabulously talented and so very lovely Julia Vesper in yarn that she handspun and dyed just for this. Seriously, how ridiculously lucky did I get? Thanks again, Julia! I love these so much! Knowing how cold it gets up here (and taking into account what a wuss I am about the cold), I will be wearing these A LOT this winter. And they fit beautifully!
Did I mention they're lined? She lined them in Kid Silk Haze in a fantastic shade of purple. I am beyond wowed by these. Also, she gave me the leftover yarn, and it looks like there's enough in there for a hat, like maybe the gorgeous chevron hat that she designed not too long ago. Guess what I'll be casting on for in the next week or so.

9.10.08
bottle blockers

3.10.08
posted for posterity?
Remember these?
I knit them as a Christmas present for my father-in-law almost two years ago. All I remember about the project itself is that I knit them over 4 days, that I used Socks That Rock in a mediumweight, and that, according to my Flickr info, the colorway was called Puck's Mischief and I used Addi Turbos in a US size2. I don't remember how many stitches I cast on, nor do I recall the exact stitch pattern (it's some variation of a twisted rib). I think I can figure it out based on this photo, but dude, I am kicking myself for not saving that info. You see, now I want to knit them again but all of the details are gone. This is one of the millions of reasons why ravelry is so awesome - because if the rav had been around then, surely I would have made a note of that info there on my project page. (And yes, I know that if I hadn't deleted my old blog I would have that info now. DOH! I was hasty, but I am still kinda glad I did that. For catharsis and all....)
I realized the other day that it is already October (!!!), which of course means it's time for Socktoberfest! And I want to take this:
and turn it into a pair of those. I think that might be a great pattern/yarn combo. And I'm also looking for a quick, fun knit. (As I am always.) So off I go to count stitches and figure this out. Looks like it's knit over 64 stitches, 1 x 1 ribbing on the cuff, 2 x 2 twisted ribbing with the twist every 3rd row with a standard heel & rounded toe. Does that sound about right? Or is it 3 x 2 ribbing over 60 stitches with enough gusset decreases to turn it to 56 stitches at the foot and make for a perfect round toe? Hmmmmmm....
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2.10.08
and perhaps I spoke too soon

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