Socks socks socks!

I finally finished these socks
I had named these "Spring Time in Missouri". Kari told me that she would have named them the NFC North socks. So needless to say I have been refering to them as the NFC North socks. I needed to finish these before Sunday becauce it would be wrong to work on NFC North socks when you want the Colts to whip the Bears.

I did not try in the least to make these socks match up and I succeded. They are about the most mismatched socks that I have ever made. I love them and am wearing them right now.

I am also well on my way with my next pair of socks.

These are the baby cable rib from Sensational Knitted Socks. The yarn is Brown Sheep Wildfoot. I also added a picot edge to these. The picture doesn't really show it but it's there.

Hey check this out!!!! I asked Wendy a question and she answered me and there is even the hyperlink to my blog. I feel cool. I am suck a dork!!!!!!!

I am a naughty knitter...

I am in a surprisingly good mood today. I woke up bright and shiny early this morning with relative ease, today is meeting day, my new shoes are finally fitting well on my feet, Chris is on his way home and I am just in a good mood in general. So at lunch today I decided that I would skip the walk down to the coffee shop to knit and I would just sit in the lunchroom here at work and knit and listen to my book. I thought I would save myself two bucks and have a few extra minutes to knit instead of walking down there and back. Well I was listening to my Ipod and knitting away when I realized that there was no point in trying to listen to my book because everyone wanted to talk to me. So I gave that up. Well pretty soon one of my coworkers came in the lunch room and was very interested in my knitting. Well she wants me to teach her how to knit.
I don't want to teach her...
I am selfish, I enjoy my knitting time at work as just some time to knit with out dogs and other household distractions. Also this particular coworker drives me nuts. I can't see myself sitting in the lunchroom with her on my precious hour away from hell (that would be my desk) to instruct a girl who I don't really like and barely speaks English on how to knit. Like I said, I am a naughty knitter. I read books and blogs and everyone is always anxious to teach to anyone who is interested how to knit. Not me. Don't get me wrong, I will teach YOU how to knit if you ask nicely, but not at work.

Hello Again

I know I have been absent from the blogging world for awhile. I am going to work on getting back on the blogging bandwagon. As you may know I have gone back to work and am no longer traveling around the country. Be warned that I am going to use this blog mostly to ramble on about my knitting and whatever random thing goes through my head.

Socks you have not seen

Well I was counting up the number of socks that I have knit since last April (18 pairs! 9 for me, 3 for Kari, 3 for Chris, 2 for my Mom and 1 for Disa) and realized that there are 3 pairs that are not on the blog! So here they are in all there glory!


These are what I am calling my fire socks. They are knit in Cherry Tree Hill Supersock. This yarn is super stretchy. I also made the spring socks from this yarn. Well anywho, I ended up making these a whole size smaller than I was really getting gauge for because they really stretch once you've had them on your feet for a couple of hours. These fit great so I am pleased that I made a mental note and re sized the.

These are my bells and whistles socks. I knit these with Schaffer Yarns, Anne. The pattern is from the interweave knits Holiday issue. I love these socks but the pattern did have all the bells and whistles! There are even little cable crosses every couple of rows. You can barely see them but I was plenty aware of them when I had to grab the cable needle every couple of rows!

These are Kari's blue socks. She received one and one half finished sock for Christmas. I had to promptly take them back after she looked at them so I could finish them. I got this yarn at the 3 Kitten yarn sale when they were changing ownership. It is Happy Trails sock yarn. These socks are thick, I would consider them more of slipper socks than everyday socks.

These are some cute little booties that I knit up with some Angora. The pattern is from Last Minute Knitted Gifts. These were interesting to make since you knit them in one piece starting with some double knitting. A special little baby will be wearing these soon ;)

Other Things

I have also been working away on finishing things up that I have already started. I am working on getting my UFO's under control. I finished this bag...

I started this bag in 2003. I knew I was almost done with it and had gathered all the previously knitted pieces and the pattern together and had planned to finish it this summer while I was in truck. Well it never made it in the truck so I finished it the other weekend. It was kind of like getting a free bonus bag. I had about 1 hour of knitting left on it when I picked it back up. I popped it into the washing machine to felt it and then had a zillion hours of finishing on it. Well now it has turned into my work bag.

I also finished this butterfly shawl.

It is the same pattern as this one. I got this yarn at the 3 kitten sale also. That may be why I chose this funky colors (lack of choice). Well I ran out of some of that fuzzy yarn that trims that shawl and had to go buy more which is why this project was put on hold. Once I finished the shawl I tried in on and came to the realization that I would never really wear this. It is just a little too loud for my tastes. Oh well it is wonderful for sitting on couch when I need something to wrap around my shoulders.

Well that's all for now. I have 2 more pairs of socks on the needles and some other things in the works but I will save those for next time. Working has drastically cut into my knitting time so I can not crank things out as quick as I did this summer!