Sunday, April 08, 2007

Updates

So I haven't posted for a while. Here's a quick peek at what I've been up to besides drowning in homework:

Here's my traveling sock. It's a pair for DH to replace his store-boughts which are quickly collecting holes. It travels with me here and there, mostly to my lecture class, just giving my hands something to do during idle time.



I've begun the KnitPicks Aran Braided Sock. This thing knits up so fast. What you see here is all of a half hour of knitting, on and off. I'm loving it. I think I'll try to see if I can finish it before Spring Break is over.



Then, in a complete bout of insanity, I downloaded Cookie A's German Stocking pattern and cast it on. I say insanity because my mindset at the time was that I had just read Stress Reflex from the Yarn Harlot where she talks about the mailman showing up with yarn she doesn't remember buying. For some unknown reason this compelled me to see if I could finish my German Stocking before she finished hers. *sigh* I think I have a case of startitis.



Finally, no picture, but I have scraps of sock yarn laying around. Everywhere. Several yard long lengths left from cutting the start of a ball to make self-stripping patterns match up, bits left over from finishing said socks, bits given to me just as a sample of what a particular yarn is like. So, instead of trying to bury Shelly Kang with these bits, I've taken up making the squares for my own modular sock yarn blankie. If I run low on sock yarn bits (yeah, right, that'll happen in this house =P)I may send out my own plea for donated bits. Of course, now I'm wondering if these bits can be put together to make Frankenstein socks.

Labels: , ,

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Full Spectrum Warrior

Yes, as my sidebar indicates, this year I will be a Full Spectrum Warrior in Project Spectrum.

I've already got plenty of plans for the first round. February / March's
Blue, White, Gray will be an entire series of projects (I hope). First, a denim blue Aran Pocket Blanket in Patons Classic Merino. I'm using the pattern from Folk Shawls, but I'm making it into a carseat blanket for my son. Also from Folk Shawls will be a white Spanish Christening Shawl for the same son's christening, yarn TBA. Then, I'm already swatching some yummy KnitPicks alpaca silk (Shimmer) that my MIL gifted to me for Christmas. It fills all three colors by itself in the colorway "Morning Mist". Finally, if I have time, I also have the yarn for another Ravenclaw (film) scarf.

April / May is Green, Yellow, Pink. I'm thinking I may order some green sock yarn and join the green sock KAL, but that would mean I'd have to locate the home of that KAL again =P. I may cheat a little and call the Beetroot Rowan I have pink so that I can finally get around to making Hedera. I do definitely know that I will be ordering the yellow and black yarns for a Hufflepuff scarf.

I haven't made any plans for the rest of the months yet. Any ideas?

Labels: ,