AnotherPurl :: a knitter's life

Sock Wars!

What do you do after you are assassinated? Well, if you are lame blogger like I am, then you finally post your sock pictures and revel in your lamitude.

The socks I made (above) are hopefully big enough for the recipient and used most of a skein of blue tweedy yarn (and I have another skein, so I will probably check my stash later for the yarn name). The socks I received (the same night I mailed my socks) were nice. Soft, brown, non-feminine yarn. They are also too big for me. But that's OK, because they fit my hubby pretty darn well.

I got chotchkies (I can't seem to spell chotchkies) with my socks, which reminded me that I forgot to mail the chotchkies I was going to send. So, I will be sending a box of Neuhaus chocolates and maybe a little something extra (well, at least the extra yarn in case she needs to lengthen the toes out a bit) to catlizard tomorrow.

I feel lately that I have done a lot of stuff, but I don't have a lot that I can show for it. I have pictures that I mean to post and things to write about and next month is Nanowrimo, when stupid people (like me) decide that they are going to do horrible things to their bodies in order to crank out 50000 words of 'literature.' Me? My novel will most likely be the drunken rambles of a monkey who went to a yarn festival while on a bender. It certainly can't be any worse than my previous under 5K word attempts.

I sing to Odessa

I love the Odessa pattern. I am knitting my third rendition of it now for my mother in law for Christmas. Of course, this is the time around where I make the oddest of my goofs. I have done the beaded rows too close together and thus have a very blingy hat. Hopefully it will not be too blingy, but I think she will like the colors and it is very soft.

I love this hat because the pattern is very forgiving, looks interesting, fits extremely well, and lends itself to quite a lot of variation. I have a few ideas on ways to modify the pattern that would be quite a lot of fun to do without taxing my brain into actually designing something new.

I don't want to be sitting here working. I want to finish knitting Odessa (I am on the decrease rows now).

Sock Wars!

I feel like I am a wee bit late to the party, but I finally have the information for my first victim! I dug out the needles and yarn and the pattern and cast on last night for catlizard's socks.

Unfortunately, I think I am going to be restarting them tomorrow due to cast on tightness and the sad small size 4 circulars that were the only needles I seemed able to find to cast on with.

Piffle.

But at least one of the yarns in my stash worked (because none of the ones I bought did). Needle purchase tomorrow, hat finished tonight? Stash diving once I get home (maybe I will find a lucky set of double points that will solve my problem for all time!), and a low-effort evening. Maybe I will not even look at my Perplexcity cards in favor of yarn!

Just what you don't want to hear

I got home from work yesterday at my normal time (about 7pm), and saw my hubby in the living room. He gave me the face and the voice. The ones that mean that the cat has done something evil.

She had gotten into the closet of extra yarn storage (which I had apparently not shut completely when I left for work) and had gotten her claws into about 1400 yards of navy merino lace weight. I couldn't think about it last night, so I put it high in the corner and told myself I would look at it this morning.

It took over 10 minutes to find a free end (so I wouldn't need to cut the yarn) and then I started winding. I have a inch-wide ball that took more than 30 minutes to wind. At this rate, I should be done winding all of the yarn up sometime next week. Huzzah.

(maybe I'll take pictures of finished knitting one of these days)

My hubby and I watched the first Lord of the Rings movie Saturday night - extended version. While it was on, I started and finished a pair of fingerless mitts from Weekend Knitting. It was a nice change of pace to finish something quite so quickly. Now I just need to finish one or two more things, so I won't feel guilty loading the house up with even more yarn during the Windsor Button Columbus Day sale.

Currently I am working on the pinup girl top from Stich 'n Bitch, a shrug without a pattern, and a couple of random scarf objects (to use up some leftovers). I know I have more than that, but some of them require frogging that I have been too lazy to do.