Archive for the 'Socktoberfest' category

Knitting socks

Thursday, October 5, 2006

Lolly posted some questions for the Socktoberfest participants to answer. I found out about them while reading Margene’s blog. Here are my answers:

When did you start making socks? Did you teach yourself or were you taught by a friend or relative? or in a class? I started knitting socks… um… probably about eleven years […]

Pfui

Friday, September 29, 2006

Drat and double drat. I’ve been planning on knitting Eunny’s Bayerishe socks for my Socktoberfest project, but that is not going to be the case. The only sock yarn I have that’s the right gauge is lovely stuff, dark blue with a white twist, but 1. it’s cotton, and 2. that dark-light thing would hide […]

Bavarian socks

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Oooh. I was browsing Kim’s blog, and saw that she’s been following Eunny’s blog (Eunny creates some of the most fabulous knitwear!), and that Eunny has released the rest of her Bayerishe Sock pattern. Oh my. This might have to be my Socktoberfest sock pattern. I have some solid blue yarn that’s been wanting to […]

Knit alongs

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

I hadn’t joined a knit along in a while. I’m officially a member of the Mountain Lace KAL, but I’m about the only one posting over there right now, expect for a finish here and there—well, one finish (which is gorgeous, by the way, you should go look), the only other post, actually, since I […]

No Socktoberfest for me

Thursday, October 27, 2005

In spite of my good intentions, I have finally admitted to myself that there is no way that I’m going to be able to start any new socks this month, so I’ve removed the Socktoberfest link from my sidebar. Sigh. So many socks, so little time…

I have, however, made good progress on Kiri, and finally […]