I hope they do — because it doesn’t look like today is going to get any brighter. Obviously, I should just bust out the Sozialismus socks. For some wooly illumination.
But focusing on the good news: I finished the body and am working on the first sleeve. Also, notice the extreme depletion of the first ball [...]
Because souvenir yarn is the best yarn. I had trouble finding Indiana-based wool (I’m sure it’s out there, but we only went to one yarn store: the very nice and well stocked Yarns Unlimited), so I went with something pretty: malabrigo sock in rayon vert (854). It’s making me think shawl thoughts.
Also: huge brunch with [...]
Whoah. Two posts in one evening. I know how to party.
It has just dawned on me that my lameness has exceeded all bounds: I forgot to blog about the awesome contest I won. Ooops. That is truly lame. Especially as my mother raised me to write thank-you notes in a timely manner.
So you might have [...]
I don’t want to brag … but I kinda do.
A piece of paper might seem like a meager reward for six of the hardest years of my life. Perhaps some would say it was not worth it at all. Or that I should not too readily admit to just how long it took me to [...]
Yeah, action wool! my sweet keister. We all know things are pretty lame around here knitting-wise at the moment. I won’t even try to convince you otherwise. Though the pictures of sweet, sweet eco wool are meant to demonstrate some proof of progress and non-lame-itude.
It’s disappearing, though fast is a bit optimistic.
In between bouts with [...]
Little book, big ball of wool. And I spent most of the weekend with both. It wasn’t quite as idyllic as it sounds, though. That book is * hard * to read (hello, my name is Katie M. and I read only 6.667 pages per hour) and I might still have some lingering gauge issues. [...]
EcoWool is pleasing not only for its wonderfully wooly characteristics — sproingy, soft, lofty, sturdily natural — but also for the shear size of the yarn cake produced by winding upwards of 450 yards of bulky wool. It’s approaching the size of my head. And that can only be a good thing.
See, it’s huge:
Though I [...]
It’s a cool and grey morning here; thus the action sock had to make do with semi-optimal conditions. Luckily, the Hundertwasser yarn is so BRITE and non-subtle, it practically creates it’s own illumination.
This is turning out to be a variation on Nancy Bush’s vintage madder ribbed socks: same stitch pattern, but I modified the ribbing, [...]
Counter set at one, new skein of yarn (in a different dye lot, but that’s a whole other kettle of potentially fishy problems): must mean I finished chart d! There was a short moment of jubilation … followed by the big pile of FAIL that was to become chart e.
I’m four stitches short. Somewhere, in [...]
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