I know, I know…the blog has been mighty quiet since that last post on October 10th. I’ve been meaning to post more often, seeing as how it’s Socktoberfest and all, but I wound up with a few outside influences making it difficult to post. For anyone who tried to access the blog over the past […]
I will admit that the title is due to an offhand comment made at work this evening, and probably has nothing to do with the rest of the post. Hooray non-sequiteur? I spent a goodly sum of the weekend knitting away at the first of the August socks. Once that sock was finished (in an […]
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 […]
…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 […]
Yes, I know it’s been awhile since I posted. I didn’t mean to go this long, but life has this terrifying way of taking precidence. Since my last update, I managed to finish the March Socks (by April 9th…they took awhile) and I started and finished the April socks. Pictures will be forthcoming! I’m back […]
Last week’s WIP Wednesday showed this single, solitary, cast-on that was barely recognizable as a toe. This week, I have a bit more to show. Yep. That’s a full sock and a half. Okay…a little more than a sock and a half. More like a sock and three quarters. That’s what an illness in the […]
Yesterday was the start of the Skinflint Sock Club, and I cast on at lunch hour, as soon as I had time (my time before work was taken up with the administrative duties and playing with the ball winder & swift). By bed last night, I’d managed to get about three inches knit. No, that’s […]