A Winters Day

Another Icy Morning

Another long, sunny day of knitting and dog walks in the park

Can you identify this SIP by its field marks?

Ahhhh Summer

Blogging in the back yard with a cold beer under the shade of the ginkgo tree.
I started another sock, just a plain ribbed sock, sometimes I really enjoy watching the yarn do all the work and I love it when the colors pool.
the blue thing is a linen hand towel I have been knitting just to get the feel of knitting with linen. It is lovely, not as lovely as wool, but lovely nonetheless.

Finally.....Some Twisted Flower Socks

All photos are before blocking. Don't they look as if they grew in the garden with the Swiss chard?

Mixing new and old

I have been tirelessly working to complete some very old UFOs. I almost completed the back of the Gyrid tank and am now blocking the cabled red Ksar scarf that I started when I first learned to cable and wanted to design a cabled scarf of my own. It is going to be very warm and soft to wear but needless to say the stitch pattern I chose almost two years ago to challenge myself was very boring to finish now. There are also some errors and design flaws that will bug me but at least it is a warm wearable item rather than an unfinished pile of yarn sitting in my livingroom taking up space on the needles. I also have a hat to match that I have been wearing for almost two years!

I finished my Monkey socks in STR mediumweight in the Fluorite colorway. They are absolutely gorgeous and as tempting as it is to wear them and keep them for myself I am going to stash them away for my best friend for Christmas. I am starting early this year folks as last December I was knitting too much for comfort or sanity.


I may make another pair for myself.

I also made a baby hat for some friends having a girl in May,it is DB Baby Cashmerino and the Drooping Elm Leaf lace stitch from Barbara Walker's first treasury of knitted stitches. I don't think I quite translated it correctly from the directions for flat knitting into the round. It is still pretty and very girly... It has small flower appliques on it.





On the new end of the spectrum, I just had to cast on some Twisted Flower Socks, in green, for my mom, this pattern is just so beautiful. It is also kinda slow moving at first with lots of twists and turns. I'm sure it will be worth it. I am making them in Shibui sock yarn in Seaweed.
Here is my progress photo.

Progress Report

My first 'Inside Out' sock is progressing well. I had a little trouble with the wide cable at first but am now getting the hang of it. It fits beautifully and is indeed reversible. Below are some close ups of the cables on each side and the sock on both ways. I think I will stop working on this one soon and start the second as I did not wind my yarn into two separate balls.











I have also been progressing slowly on Cookie's BFF socks in STR Farmhouse and my second Monkey Sock in STR Fluorite.

Hose for Helinka

So they are not exactly hose but just simple socks. I am hoping that my grandma Helen will enjoy them. Although not a knitter herself, my grandma is an incredible seamstress and quilter and has a fine eye for beautiful handcrafted things.


My coworker was kind enough to model these socks for me as grandma has a dainty size 5 foot and I,(being the freak result of hybrid vigor?) have the feet of an WNBA player without the height or athletic grace to accompany them.

Christmas Knitting Be Damned

Here it is, the second sock for mom. I have passed the heel and finished the gusset. I looked in my bag just now to find the first sock to photograph them side by side but it wasn't there. Let's hope it is at home!