I worked almost exclusively on the green Shibui socks all weekend. I don’t have a picture for you at this moment, as it’s nearly midnight, and not nearly light enough for photography. I’ll get one to you soon, I promise.

Remember the other day when I ripped out the first attempt and restarted on larger needles? Yeah, well, I did it again. Well, the restarting on larger needles part, anyway. I haven’t actually ripped out the second partial sock yet. I wanted to make sure that the larger needles wouldn’t be too large, and so the previous sock sits forlornly on its needles, waiting to be frogged.

Meanwhile, the sock on the size two (I never knit socks on size 2 needles, never) needles is behaving well, fits nicely, and has progressed to below the gusset. There’s a full motif running along the top of the foot, with a partial along each side. We’ll see how it looks when it gets a tiny bit farther. Originally I was going to segue those side bits into a slightly different motif, and might still. I just don’t know yet. We’ll see how it looks in the pictures, when it’s light enough to actually see what it looks like.

While the feverish sock knitting has been going on, I’ve been contemplating names for the pattern. The stitch pattern came out of a book that doesn’t provide stitch pattern names, just categories. The stitch I’m using came from the Alpine category. Further research has shown that quite a number of these Alpine patterns are centered around Innsbruck, Austria. Innsbruck is in the Inn Valley, in the state of Tyrol. Here’s a decent picture of the front of the sock when it was knit on size one needles. Use it for inspiration.

Almost all the names I have listed below have been used for something already—at least one knit pattern out there lays claim to each of the names below—all but the top one. They’re my starting point. Do you like any of them? What other things do these names lead your mind to? I keep thinking about skiing, though the sock is green. Perhaps “Wiese” (German for “meadow”) would be better. Or?

Please vote in my poll. It’s only going to be open for two days, since we’re so near Christmas. If you answer Other, kindly provide a suggestion in the comments.

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I finally have pictures for you (my fault) of the mini I made for the Christmas mini swap we did last Monday. This first group of pictures was taken by Elisabeth (Ravelry, Flickr). She kindly let me share them with you here. Though it looks pretty cute, if I do say so myself, it’s difficult to tell exactly how small this little raglan sweater is in these pictures.

Oh, the pattern. I started with Tiny Sweater Ornament by Everwhelming Liz (Ravelry). But I made changes to it. I knit the body in reverse stockinette, and put a 2-stitch cable up the center of the front and back of the sweater, and I made the sleeves a little shorter, so the finished garment looks more like a tunic-length sweater.

It’s a little easier to tell here, in this larger picture of everyone’s minis that Anne took and is letting us use on our blogs and such, just how small this sweater is. The one I knit is on the left, about half way down, next to the blue and white Fair Isle. See? I told you it was small.