The socks
I’ve loved knitting cables from the very start. A simple cable looks so complicated, but in reality is quite easy to knit. Complicated cables, when broken down, line by line, are still simple to knit. The best part is that they’re immensely satisfying.
Take this cable for instance. Looks terribly complex, but each section […]
With a colorway called Earnest, how can I not think of the delightful story The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde while I’m knitting up this yarn? I haven’t ever read this story—I must read it some day—but I’ve seen the movie a number of times. I love the version with Rupert Everett, Colin […]
It was way too hot over the weekend to knit much of anything, especially anything with any bulk at all. It was also too hot to think much. Certainly too hot to dig through stitch pattern books, chart, plan, swatch, and think.
Since I already had a very specific plan for the Tenaya mitts, I […]
I don’t want to think too hard on it, be too positive or certain, because I know if I do it’ll come back and bite me. But I think, I hope, that I have finally hit on a pattern stitch that works with the Figgy Pudding sock yarn.
The ribbing can pool all it wants. […]
Pattern: Merced, my own devising. Pattern to be released soon.
Yarn: Super Socks and Baby from Tess’ Designer Yarns, 1 hank.
Needles: Size 1 (2.25 mm), Crystal Palace bamboo DPNs, set of 5.
Gauge: 7½ stitches/inch
Elapsed time: May 30 to June 10, 2008.
Notes: This must be the fastest pair of socks I ever knit. But then, […]
I’ve been thinking about what to name the green sock I’m working on, and Rivulets simply doesn’t do it for me. Close. Right theme, wrong name. I liked the river idea, so let my brain flow around that one for a little while, thought of a few of the rivers I know here in California: […]
Well, my fingers are, anyway. Very blue. From green yarn. Check this out—but please don’t look too closely at my “manicure.” I do it myself. And I’m quite lazy about it. So long as the nails don’t snag on things, and they’re close to the same length, I’m fine with it. And the wrinkles! Egads. […]
Do you follow Judy’s blog at all? Earlier this year she posted about some socks that she referred to as her clown barf socks. You want to see clown barf? Check this out. My latest attempt failure with the Figgy Pudding yarn. Ghastly, isn’t it? Notice the lack of knitting needles. Yup. It’s a goner.
It’s […]
The second (third?) Tilt sock is coming along splendidly. I got an entire repeat knit up at knit night yesterday. I stopped knitting when I got to a flaw—read: small knot—in the yarn. I’ll deal with that this evening when I have more light. I think I only have one more repeat to do before […]
I’m feeling more awake than I have in days. Slept the sleep of the dead—well, not dead dead—the last two nights, and am feeling fairly human again. Finally. Hopefully I’ll be able to sleep again tonight. Fingers crossed.
Canterbury Bells is coming along wonderfully. I nearly have the first half done. The central panel is […]