Look, Knitting!
Lest you think I've only been strolling about taking in the sights and eating delicious food, let me assure you there has been knitting too. Plenty of knitting. It started when we took the sock to the ocean on Saturday. He enjoyed the view, but was a little worried the breeze would blow him away and he'd be lost at sea. This was not a totally unfounded concern. It was more than a bit breezy, and he'd seen what had happened to socks at the shore in the past. The sock was somewhat reassured as he was still tethered to [...]
One Down
The first sock is done! See? All the way done, right down to the pretty little toes. And don't worry, the little bars of yarn all lay a bit straighter when my foot (as opposed to the blocker) is filling the sock out. That's String Theory Merino DK in Didgeridoo. Now, 1 skein of that yarn has 280 yards. Knowing that I have big feet, and knowing that I wanted to make socks from this yarn, I bought two skeins. When I finished up the first sock (after the requisite amount of preening), I popped it on the scale. It [...]
Scoundrel
And now, the result of yesterday's little adventure (that is, the pretty pictures that will likely show up in some format in the pattern, as opposed to the one that shows off the moment of 'look, train!' that yesterday's post featured). And just so you know, these socks will be part of another mini book (something on the scale of Rabble Rousers). It should be out this fall in both paper and electronic versions, and will have 6-7 patterns (some socks, some accessories). These socks are going to be called Scoundrel, and they will be on the cover (it's about [...]
I Play Chicken with the Train
I'm not sure what you were up to at 6:45 this morning. If you are a sensible reasonable person, you were likely tucked up in bed, sound asleep. If you are one of those alarmingly industrious types, you might have already been on your way to work. If you are, by some unlikely chance, someone who writes knitting books and thus needs to take a lot of rather peculiar pictures (or the astonishingly accommodating spouse of such a sort), you might have been perilously perched on the side of a railroad track, racing against the rising sun, snapping sock pictures [...]
Remiss
Yes, yes indeed I have been remiss. My magical socks? The super fast ones? Well they are indeed quick, but they are not quite self knitting. I'll likely finish up the first one this weekend. In the meantime, I think I've figured out why this yarn seems to be magic. When you look at it straight on, it is blue. Blue and purple and green. But still, the predominant color is totally blue. See? Ok, when you turn it and look down the sock, you'll see the yarn has a bit of a halo. That halo, quite perplexingly, is not [...]
Promising
I'm unreasonably taken with this sock. Let's get a picture up to show you what I'm talking about. The yarn is drop dead gorgeous. It's String Theory Merino DK in Didgeridoo and I love it to distraction. It's a smidge more purple in real life, but it was early in the morning when I snapped this and the light was all glowy and yellow and I do not love you enough to either retake the picture later in the day or muck about in photoshop to fix it. This is one of those magic color changing yarns and it plays [...]
That’s Better
Last night I found myself feeling restless. I couldn't settle. I might even have been flailing around like an over-tired two year old. Then it hit me. I needed to knit. Not a swatch (swatching for the next book is well underway, and I like doing it, but it was not what I needed). A proper project. That realization made, I walked over to the card catalog (it's where the really really good yarn lives...the yarn I will totally absolutely be using just as soon as I have time), slammed through a few of the drawers, grabbed the prettiest thing [...]
And in Other News
The lovely blue socks I took off to the retreat are done (and have been for a while now, I just didn't quite manage to get them outside and snap a picture). We'll start with proof of concept. See that, two legs, two heels, two toes, all tidy and done. And then lets take a closer look at the top of the feet. Left and right mirrored (though it would be just as cute to put a left-leaning leaf and a right-leaning leaf together on the same sock). It's Vice (and yes, I am trying to irritate Lizzy into finishing [...]
Shocking, I’m Sure
Bright and early Monday morning, I have to roll myself out the door and off to the airport (more details on that Monday). I'll be gone for a while, and there are a whole host of things I really should be doing right this very moment to make sure that trip goes smoothly. But instead of doing those things, I found myself sorting out what travel knitting I'd take. I know, brilliant use of my time, right? Especially the part where I said 'well, this sock is almost done, if I just finish it up that will make it much [...]
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