These are my Fire Socks. They have been in what I call the "dead sock" pile for awhile. Shortly after knitting them I wore a hole thru the heel but had no clue how to darn them. Well I got ambitious this weekend and google sock darning. So here is my handy work. Not perfect but wearable and practice makes perfect. I did a few other pairs and am thrilled to be able to wear these "dead" socks again. More to come!
Well here I am thinking about blogging again... Last night I read thru some of my old blogs and thought maybe it was time to pick up my journal of life and knitting and start again. I rarely knit over the past three years and did not blog. With Facebook and Texting the blog went t o the wayside. I'm sure most of my Facebook friends could care less about my knitting and what not so I'm going to give jotting it all down here a shot again. Some posts, like this one, will come from my phone so please excuse my typos :). I thought I might get back in the swing of blogging by posting my daily socks.
Todays socks are the jitterbug socks. I think I bought this yarn in TN or finished them in TN because that's what they kind of remind me of.
I say this was a small accomplishment since this is just one square of many that will *someday* be an afghan. This was a really challenging little square. This has some of the most difficult cables I have ever knit. I wanted to get this one off the needles so I could start something new though. (more to come on that!)
Here is my big accomplishment...
I have been working on these little babies since the beginning of April! I was itching to start another pair of socks and since I try to not have more than two pairs going at once it ignited the fire to finish these up. Yeah!
So here are the new socks
Ok , ok, I know there not much yet just ribbing but they are going to be AWESOME! They are Dream in Color Smooshy Sock yarn and I am knitting another pattern from More Sensational Knit Socks. The pattern is called Faggot and cable stripe and I can't wait to be done with the ribbing so I can start on the pattern.
Ok and last but not least here is my other new project.
This is the Trifold Knitters Bowl from A Second Treasury of Magical Knitting. This will be felted when it is finished and will hang out on the coffee table holding yarn and notions. I think this is going to be really really cool too. I started off by knitting the mobuis strip and then picking up stitches for the bottom of the bowl. Where the pink yarn is, I will pick up those stitches and knit 6 pockets. Eventually you pick up stitches around the top of the bowl that kind of close it up like an old fashioned coin purse. Very cool stuff, just wait and see.
Ahhhhh Minneapolis, sweet, Minneapolis!
My real home good ole 215!
A few of the members of my extended family (co-workers), Matt...
Shawn...
Oh look it's me! I look happy, obviously I have not actually started working yet!
My desk, as messy as it is!
Roberto the werewolf, He comes in at 10.
At lunch today I walked around for a bit.
Then I walked around and annoyed my co-workers by taking there pictures. This is Mary.
Angela,
Steve,
This afternoon I was working away when the contractor services department asked if I would take a picture of them. How could I say no? This is the picture they wanted me to take!
And my lovely commute home.
And this speed is very typical of the commute home.
I did survive the day. Well that's all folks! We will resume our regular knitting blog shortly. (aren't NEW digital cameras fun!)
This is a pretty mindless knit so far. It is mostly just K4, P4. I knew if would be and some time you just need to thank god for totally mindless projects like this.
I also finished my mobius basket. This was a super quick knit and if you just sat down and worked on it it could easily be finished in just a few hours.
I have my eye on so many other projects from A 2nd Treasury of Magical knitting but am trying to stay in control of how many projects I have on the needles at one time. For example no more socks can be started until I finish at least one pair of socks. I think that more than two pairs of socks on the needles at the same time is too many. If I want to ever finish things I need to control myself from casting on. Speaking of sock here are my stockinette triangle socks.
So on to my next knitting adventure for the weekend...
I realized earlier this week that I had a miscrossed cable on one of my Afghan squares. Well I had planned on fixing it Friday night but I did not feel I had enough brain power to do so so I successfully did that this morning. Here is my boo boo.
Yeah! Here's a little preview of this square. It has some killer cables in it and I am slow going on this one.
I also have started swatching for Chris' sweater. I made three (YES THREE) swatches for it and they are currently in the washing machine. I want to make sure that this sweater turns out since it is the first sweater that I will be making for someone else. Hopefully I will start actually knitting it this week.
Hey, BTW, If you are ever out and about and are looking for a really cool yarn shop check out the yarn garage in Rosemount, MN. WOW, I was curious as to what to expect from the website and it was awesome. The prices were great too! They had tons and tons of really interesting stuff. I will be back when I have some cash to blow. (now when will that ever be?) Anyways, today I was a good girl. I purchased some butterfly cotton yarn that I make the apple hats with and A 2nd Treasury Of Magical Knitting. I have had my eye on that book for awhile and now it is mine! Ah ha!
I've got to say that I am looking forward to the rest of my weekend. Then working Monday (not really looking forward to that part, but it pays the bills). Then when I come home Chris and Brownie should be home. Then I have Tuesday off and Wednesday! It's like a bonus weekend in the middle of the week!
