More Socks

I've been too lazy to take pictures of all the stuff I've been working on recently. :) But I found some pictures to post. And I will be taking more pictures soon!

A while back I purchased some yummy yarn from the Bare Sheep Yarn Company.



Started my socks tonight, using the magic toe cast on. It's going well, have about 3 inches of the pair of socks done now.

I also purchased a bunch of other yarns that I will be making a Lizard Ridge afgan with. I think I'm going to limit it to the one type of yarn, but the jury is still out on that.



The purple black colour is gorgeous, rich yummy, but maybe I should get me some purple yarn to make it more interesting. The pattern suggests a worsted weight yarn, but this purple black only comes in fingerling. So I think I may just order more yarn and make it a thin blanket. Come on, worsted weight isn't that much thicker than fingerling right? And it is a blanket, so I don't need to follow the instructions completely right?



I also invested in a set of Weldon's Practical Needlework. These are a compilation of an old newsletter that talks about various vintage styles, patterns and techniques. I was able to get the entire set, except for Volumn 3, which is going for about 300 USD on amazon :(. I don't think I'll be buying that one in the near future. Perhaps I wil be able to find it in a used bookstore for a more reasonable price.

I also found an amazing deal at Tuesday Mornings. They had Berger du Nord, Charmant (worsted, 50% merino, 50% silk) on sale. It looks like Berger du Nord has gone out of business, and they were selling off all their yarns. I absolutely LOVE their yarn. It is sooo soft and yummy and the colours are all gorgeous.



Is what a ball looks like, look at how soft and yummy it looks, and here are the other colours that it comes in!



I'm currently working on a double sided cable scarf in the burgundy colour, and have finished a pair of fingerless gloves in the orangy-pink colours. I'll post pictures as soon as I have trimmed the threads on the gloves, and get a couple more cable turns done on the scarf so you can see how it is going.

I've also figured out the reason knitting scarves is soooo popular. I finished a pink drop stitch scarf in ONE evening! I was amazed. I don't think it's something that I would wear, but it is very pretty. I'm going to make one for each of the ladies visiting from China. that should use up the stash of yarn that I thought was way way too pretty to languish at the yarn store.

Enough for one post :) I'll have to post more later.

My Very First Post!

So where does one start when starting up posting? Should I cover history, or plans or just babble on in general. I think I'll babble on in general.

I have recently been reintroduced to knitting by one of my new buddies here in the NW. I used to knit sweaters and sweaters, but no one in my family wears sweaters (at least 2 in the works atm), so it wasn't all that productive a craft for me, but Sock! now that is something that 1) takes significantly less time than sweaters (the cable ones that I loved to do), and was semi useful :) I say semi because everyone needs socks!

However little did I realize that knitting (like any crafting thing I pick up) has rapidly become one very very serious obsession for me. All those beautiful colours, all those incredible patterns (even cable ones!).

Documenting my experiences knitting should be an interesting excercise, I only hope that my babbles will be interesting to more than just myself :)




Meet Pico, my partner in crime. She supervises (from a distance, well most of the time). She has a lot of patience for her wayward owner, and has been slowly training me to obey her every command.