Sunday, June 24, 2012

More socks!

Tour de Sock continues.  I have another nice new pair of socks.

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This was a nice pattern, but all charted so it took checking the chart every row.  This isn't a bad thing, but no mindless knitting on autopilot.

I cast on another pair this afternoon, but the yarn and the pattern were not compatible.  The yarn is from the horrible Sock Wars socks I received.  It appears I never took pictures, or if I did they've been lost to the sands of time.  I even went back through the blog and I can see the pair I made and mention of the other two pair, but not pictures.  What a slacker!  But I ripped the socks back and balled the yarn long ago.

So now I'm busy looking for a pattern for the yarn.  Socks! Socks! Socks!




Sunday, June 17, 2012

And new socks (again!!)

Here is a pic of the new socks for Tour de Sock.


 Sorry about the blurry picture.  I took it with my phone so I could turn it in as soon as I finished. And I haven't made any time to take a new one.

This was the third yarn choice I made for these socks.  The first yarn was a tad heavy (knew that going in, but I decided to try anyway).  I couldn't get gauge.

I have some acid green and purple I bought to make socks.  Even though it wasn't intended for this project I decided - 'Oh, why not.'  It won't cake - that's why not.  The purple was a complete mess off the skein so I threw up my hands and went back to the stash.

I left the purple mess until I finished the socks.  I have spent the last three days (more or less) untangling purple yarn.  That is done - so I decided to try to cake it.  I'm on the third attempt (today - I made at least 3 attempts the first time before it was such a mess I gave up) to recake it and it's still not a nice cake.  Yarn is slipping out of the cake top and bottom and rolling up over the top. After this happened a couple times I dug out the old ball winder (the gears are going so I replaced it) and still not good.  This allows me to pretend it's not the ball winder (right?!) I'm seriously considering breaking out the nostepinne.  I have, however, lost all interest in knitting this yarn.  What kind of a mess with that make?!!

Thursday, June 07, 2012

New Stash Year

Last stash year was successful so I thought I'd try another 12 months.  Already finished these lovely socks.

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They are the first pattern release for Tour de Sock 2012.  It took longer to knit these than it should have.  I was too busy being social.  But the yarn was some that I frogged from two years ago.  I'm not sure that I won't reknit those socks eventually, the pattern was nice.

There is also a link on this page for Sock Sniper, which happens this fall.  I am excited about that already too.  But I think one intensive activity at a time is enough, and I'm already doing two, plus life and work.

Saturday I think I will dye some yarn.  I need two colors for the second TdS pattern and I'm not sure what to use.  So I'll make something special - sounds like a great plan.