Actual Knitting Content
Today, folks, I'm aiming high. I'm shooting for having actual knitting content on my knitting blog (who'd have thunk it!)
I have been knitting, blog reports notwithstanding. Last year I participated in Sockapalooza and enjoyed it, so I signed up again this year (not that I have the KAL icon on my blog, but oh well).
I haven't really been that connected with it. The KAL mom (Alison of The Blue Blog had set up a Blogger account that everybody could post to, but there were so many people signed up that Blogger couldn't handle it. So she created something else, a Pligg???, and I never mustered the energy or the interest to check it out.
Nevertheless, I enjoy the secret swap aspect of it. I've gotten and email from my mystery pal, and I even created a gmail account so I could email my recipient anonymously. She also has her own blog and I've had fun lurking on her blog and getting to know her a little bit.
As always, I wavered on what I wanted to make. I thought about making something completely different from the kind of socks she has made for herself in the past, but in the end I just decided to make what I felt like knitting.
Like a lot of knitters I have admired Cookie's socks patterns for some time. I decided the monkey pattern looked like fun, so that's what I chose.
The first of my sockpal socks. The yarn is Cherry Tree Hill Supersock, color Life's a Beach. The needles are size 1 bamboo.
My sockpal likes green, and I love the way the yellow just makes everything pop. The backdrop for the photo is one of several child sized picnic tables in our backyard - it really brings out the yellow!
One of the women who comes to knitting at the library loved these so much she offered to give me a different pair of sock for me to give to my sockpal so she could keep these! I told her no way these were made with my sockpal in mind (but I was pleased that she liked them, hopefully my sockpal will too!)
I'm making these as per the instructions, top down with a gusset heel. I really prefer toe-up, but I felt short on time and didn't want to tackle figuring out how to invert this pattern.
Next time I'm not going to be so lazy. I'm going to have leftover yarn, and I don't like having leftover sock yarn (maybe I'll make another pair of socks for Punkin).
However, this is a great pattern. It goes surprisingly quickly, and is easy to memorize. I'm not surprised that so many people have made socks from this pattern, it's a lot of fun. I'm halfway through the second sock and expect to be finished in the next week, well in time for the deadline of August 2.
Other knitting that I'm working on - Mystery Shawl 3. I am only halfway through the first clue, and I'm making no effort to keep up with the email (way too much, way too chatty, I just don't have time for it) but I'm enjoying the project in any case. Photos will follow once I have enough to photograph!
There are lots of other projects in bags around the house. I was in a boring meeting at work the other day so I started writing a list of projects that are underway and was surprised at how many there are. I have a few that I'd really like to get completed, but the intertia is enormous! Plus I don't often feel I have enough functioning brain cells at the end of the day to deal with installing zippers, doing steeks, and more complicated things like that.
One bit of children news in this otherwise knitting post - Punkin has her first loose tooth! It's a bottom front one, and she discovered it yesterday. She can't stop wiggling it with her finger and she's so excited. Wow, they grow up so fast!
I have been knitting, blog reports notwithstanding. Last year I participated in Sockapalooza and enjoyed it, so I signed up again this year (not that I have the KAL icon on my blog, but oh well).
I haven't really been that connected with it. The KAL mom (Alison of The Blue Blog had set up a Blogger account that everybody could post to, but there were so many people signed up that Blogger couldn't handle it. So she created something else, a Pligg???, and I never mustered the energy or the interest to check it out.
Nevertheless, I enjoy the secret swap aspect of it. I've gotten and email from my mystery pal, and I even created a gmail account so I could email my recipient anonymously. She also has her own blog and I've had fun lurking on her blog and getting to know her a little bit.
As always, I wavered on what I wanted to make. I thought about making something completely different from the kind of socks she has made for herself in the past, but in the end I just decided to make what I felt like knitting.
Like a lot of knitters I have admired Cookie's socks patterns for some time. I decided the monkey pattern looked like fun, so that's what I chose.
The first of my sockpal socks. The yarn is Cherry Tree Hill Supersock, color Life's a Beach. The needles are size 1 bamboo.
My sockpal likes green, and I love the way the yellow just makes everything pop. The backdrop for the photo is one of several child sized picnic tables in our backyard - it really brings out the yellow!
One of the women who comes to knitting at the library loved these so much she offered to give me a different pair of sock for me to give to my sockpal so she could keep these! I told her no way these were made with my sockpal in mind (but I was pleased that she liked them, hopefully my sockpal will too!)
I'm making these as per the instructions, top down with a gusset heel. I really prefer toe-up, but I felt short on time and didn't want to tackle figuring out how to invert this pattern.
Next time I'm not going to be so lazy. I'm going to have leftover yarn, and I don't like having leftover sock yarn (maybe I'll make another pair of socks for Punkin).
However, this is a great pattern. It goes surprisingly quickly, and is easy to memorize. I'm not surprised that so many people have made socks from this pattern, it's a lot of fun. I'm halfway through the second sock and expect to be finished in the next week, well in time for the deadline of August 2.
Other knitting that I'm working on - Mystery Shawl 3. I am only halfway through the first clue, and I'm making no effort to keep up with the email (way too much, way too chatty, I just don't have time for it) but I'm enjoying the project in any case. Photos will follow once I have enough to photograph!
There are lots of other projects in bags around the house. I was in a boring meeting at work the other day so I started writing a list of projects that are underway and was surprised at how many there are. I have a few that I'd really like to get completed, but the intertia is enormous! Plus I don't often feel I have enough functioning brain cells at the end of the day to deal with installing zippers, doing steeks, and more complicated things like that.
One bit of children news in this otherwise knitting post - Punkin has her first loose tooth! It's a bottom front one, and she discovered it yesterday. She can't stop wiggling it with her finger and she's so excited. Wow, they grow up so fast!
1 Comments:
Maybe you should make mini-monkeys for The Monkey out of the leftover yarn? ;-)
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