We’ve been having all kinds of weird weather lately. Everything from sunny & hot to stormy with hail. This is what I drove home in this evening. I have to admit, I had a bit of a blast plowing through all the water that was gathering on the road! We had ourselves a bit of […]
Time to get on with the August Socks! My Skinflint Sock Club socks of the month are Hermione’s Everyday Socks by Erica Lueder. Yes, I’ve knit them before, but they’re worth a repeat. When you knit them according to direction they make wonderful Lady Socks, and when you upsize them slightly to 72 sts around… […]
I kept meaning to post about last weekend’s hijinks, but got sidetracked. I’m now on a rotating shift schedule at work, and it messes with my ability to organize my posts. Either way, just in time for the new weekend, I bring you my adventures LAST weekend! We started off by driving down to the […]
Last week I mentioned the socks that I’m designing. I got a little farther along and have decided to take a little rest to decide where to go from here. You see, I love the texture, but it takes a little longer knit. I’m also a little worried about whether I will warp the fabric […]
I finished up the Catnip Socks this week. It didn’t take very long. They’re a great knit. I delivered the MIL’s Socks that I knit back in February to my mother for her (belated) birthday gift. We rode down on our bicycles. Proof that Mum reads the blog? “I really like the butter-coloured socks you’re […]
It hardly feels like it’s been almost two weeks since I started these. It feels like they’ve been going faster than lightning, but maybe that’s just because I’m doing them both at the same time and the colour is so happyshiny that I don’t necessarily want them to end. Well, I obviously want them to […]
I think there’s a reason why Wendy Johnson named this particular pattern “Catnip”. I went looking for the July 2011 sock pattern for the Skinflint Sock Club (no idea if anyone is still following along, but I’m putting the choices up anyhow, at least until I can get back to podcasting). I came across quite […]
Working on the Gush socks (pattern by Yarnissima)…Starting on clue #4. I have to admit that while I was excited to get started, I’ll be happy to see the end of this pair. The yarn is a little *too* “wool-y” for this time of year, and the knit & purl pattern is somewhat fiddly. I’m […]
Amazingly enough, I actually have a couple of quick pictures to show! Yay! I’m surprised, what with a very busy vacation and then schedule crazies at work, but I’ll take my resource photos where I can get ’em. It doesn’t look like much of anything, but that’s because this is a sorta cast-on picture. I’ve […]
…almost literally, in fact, but we’ll get to that in a moment. That, there is part of my year-round self-sock-club. The blue socks are my February MIL’s Socks, the red pair are March’s Shur’tugal, the multicolours are the second pair of April socks (toe-up with an afterthought heel), and the really bright neon green socks […]