LOL!

 

Knit and Crochet

Am working busily on some Christmas and birthday things but recently made some other stuff too. First Allison's hygienist is having a baby soon so she wanted a little hat to give her. This little thing was knit up one afternoon.

 

 

Then I decided I needed a tissue holder for the bathroom. Of course it had to be in Flamingo Pink.

 

Do I dare show the actual bathroom?

 

 

Oh why not. People have shown far worse things on the internet before, haha. The towels came from Jane Ellen because I love flamingos. That kind of morfed into the whole bathroom being accented in pink. There is even a flamingo shower curtain but that picture is for another day.

 

 

Finally

I finally finished the first sock I had been having issues with. And...I had issues right down to the very end. I always try on my socks when I reach the point of narrowing down the toe. I did my standard row count, tried on the sock and it was about an inch too long. I had to take out about five rows. Seriously, this is my standard sock pattern that I never have any issues with but have had nothing but problems with on this pair. After I took out the rows I tried it back on and it seemed to be where I usually stop to do the decrease. I finished it off closing the toe with Kitchener stitch and tried on the sock. Dang, I should have taken off two more rows as it seemed a little off. But the Kitchener was done, seams finished so this nightmare is finished. Well, I say that but now I have to knit the second sock. I will probably stop knitting earlier on the next one just to see if it makes any difference. The length is not so much as you might notice but being a little obsessive I like my things to come out correctly. So here is a picture of one sock. The second one has already been cast on and I hope to finish it quickly as I really don't enjoy this yarn.

 

Lion Brand Sock Ease #202

 

 

Argh, Uncooperative Socks

Two weeks ago I posted a picture with stuff I was working on. One thing was a pair of socks. Two weeks later that same sock, the very same sock is at the same working point. It is not that I haven't worked on it, I just can't make any progress. I have had to rip it out at least three if not four times, so many I have lost count. I don't remember having this much trouble with a sock in forever, maybe since I first started knitting them. So after a miscount, a dropped stitch two different times and narrowing down the heel before I had actually made the heel, guess I was trying to get to the next part of the foot fast, I am back to where I was two weeks ago. So here I go again and I am going to try to pick up the heel. Why do I keep punishing myself? Because I love knitting socks. Hopefully next post will have a picture of a finished sock.

Various Projects

These are the projects in my bag by the couch. I go from one to the other as the mood strikes. A couple I have a deadline to finish but a couple are just experiments. How is anyone ever bored?

September 11

 

 

Do not forget.

 

 

More Socks Finished

I finished another pair of those socks that I started so long ago I cannot remember when it was. It has again been at least two and a half years. I was distracted by circumstances and knitting for others. Here they are.

 

They are SWTC's Tofutsies color #872. Yeah, another pair finished! Not only am I clearing out some sock stash (so of course I can start to build it up again) I know at some point cooler weather will come and I will have some new socks to wear.

 

Ok so these did not come out with the matching stripe look but these are more of a tie-dye in the way the colors formed. Still cool.

I love the look of a Kitchener stitch toe. This is my favorite stitch for socks and I love doing it. So now another pair down and another pair to go. Even though socks use tiny needles and tiny yarn, I love making them.