Seeing the title, you’re probably thinking I’m going to skewer (ha!) someone else today. Ah, not so! I’m doing a roundup of my knitting progress so far.
Raspberry Alpaca wristwarmers:
I’m almost finished the second one – I’m past the thumb hole and the end is nigh. No pictures, however. Oh, what the hell – there’s a nice snow drift on my balcony.
There. See?
Knitting Olympics
I have swatched the yarn I will be using. I have swatched the pattern. The only thing left to do is cast any time after 2PM.
Sockapaloooza
Damn it – I’ve been spelling it with only two O’s, and apparently, there are three. My bad. Anyhoodle…
If you go here, you can see a list of all 606 crazies of us who are participating. My Sock Sister (sort of like a TA or a den mother – she’s the person I keep in touch with about my progress) is Mary (Hi Mary!) The good news is that I’ve chosen a yarn:
Purty, ain’t it? It’s Lorna’s Laces in Gold Hill that I got at Lettuce Knit last February, and I’ve been holding onto it since then. I think this is a good excuse to use it.
But I do have a confession – even though I’m in the beginner group, I’ve made two pair of socks and am working on the third. However, the first went well, the second were too loose, and the third have pretty much stalled on the needles (which is a shame, because I need them to knit this yarn – yikes!)
Right – that was fairly painless, wasn’t it?
I have two solutions to your sock needle dilemma. You can put the other sock stitches onto waste yarn and come back to it later. Or, you can buy another set of needles. Option two means you can get more stuff!
I thought you might be the Sudbury pin on the sockapaloooza map! (I’m playing that game too)
Your yarn boobs are staring at me.
Now I feel kinda funny.
Lisa – I think I’m going to go with option 2. I had to buy 2 packages of 2.5mm in order to have 5 needles for the sock (do you know it’s almost impossible to get needles up here? I’m sooo looking forward to being in Guelph at the end of the month!)
Giselle – I can’t believe you said that! Now that’s all I see when I look at them!
I have no thoughts on the sewing front but I did want to jump in and say that I’ve been lurking pretty bad lately. I’ve been around, I just haven’t had much intelligent to comment with (as evidenced here.) I shall return!