Larocque and Roll

Finished! August 4, 2007

The sockapalooza socks, they are finished!

I finished them Thursday night. Now all that’s left is weaving in the ends and washing and blocking them.

The one thing that bugs me about them is that the sock on the left is slightly more reddish than the one on the right. I dyed the two balls of yarn separately, using exactly the same measurements for everything (possibly for the first time). What I think happened is that the sock on the right got stirred more than the one on the left, so that the red in the dye dissolved more.

Sock update June 19, 2007

I saw “Knocked Up” on the weekend, and boy was it funny! Crude in lots of places, but still the funniest thing I’ve seen all year. Besides that, not much else is new. My nephew is still cute as a button, and keeping his mom and dad up all night. I found out yesterday that Bing isn’t 8 years old as I (for some reason) thought he was - he’s almost 14. He’s no longer affectionately called “big guy” when I come home at night and he starts meowing at me - he’s “my grumpy-assed old man” now!

However, the title is about the progress on the socks, so here’s some:

The sockapalooza sock looks like this.

(It looks distorted because it’s on my hand. It doesn’t fit on my foot.) Turns out that this yarn is perfect for this pattern, and I hope my recipient likes it just as much as I do. Right now, I’m turning the heel on the first sock, and when I’m done that, I go up a needle size to do the leg part. Which means I can start the second foot right away. Woo!

The other sock (it doesn’t have a cool name yet).

This one has gone on the backburner until I’m finished the sockapalooza socks, or until I get bored of the other. The pattern is one of my own devising, which is a good thing because I can’t find the basic pattern I used to start it. Gulp.

There are two other projects I need to start, but they’re both top secret things. Sorry.

Sock it to me! May 28, 2007

Oh, that subject line has never been used before, and it’s never going to get old. Moving along…

I signed up to participate in Sockapalooza 4 this year, just one of a thousand or so to do so (and one of four Rebeccas - go us!) So far, all I’ve accomplished is picking out the pattern I’ll be using (Marnie MacLean’s Wyvern Sock pattern), and to finally decide on a yarn. Maybe.

Originally, it was an eye-searing yellow Paton’s Kroy yarn; since I had no use for such a colour, I dyed it green with some food colouring. Now it’s a fairly nice golden-green colour, shot through with streaks of red from where the food colouring didn’t dissolve properly (I’m sure there’s someone out there who can explain why the clumps turned the yarn red.) It’s a maybe because I’m still not sure this is THE yarn I want to use. I bought some backup today, just in case, and I might try the craft store in town to see what they have. The pattern screams for a green somewhere in the yarn. Or at least it does to me.

(To the other Sockapalooza bloggers who find their way here: Hi! This is my blog! It’s not so much a knitting blog as one where I occasionally post about my knitting, among other things.)

So, while I have the knitting out, let’s see what else I’ve been up to.

A second tea cozy!

The outside is a whole ball of Noro Kureyon, and some leftover Briggs and Little (I think) on the inside.

Another scarf!

It’s also using Noro Kureyon; it’s a broken rib pattern with two different balls of yarn, alternating every second row. Because it’s dead easy to work on, it sits beside the computer where I can work on a few rows at a time when I’m waiting for something to load.

The skull hat!

Done, except to iron and sew up the brim to the inside. It will look awesome when it’s done.

More yarn! Of which I have no pictures! The yarn store in St. Catharines is closing, for reasons both mundane and sorrow-inducing. Suffice to say, whenever the topic is mentioned around my sisters and I, we all start moaning and wailing and tearing at our hair. Okay, maybe that’s a bit much, but it’s pretty close to the truth. Anyway… All the yarn is on sale, and my sister bought me a bag of fun stuff.

Also? I got to see The Neph this weekend, and he’s even cuter in person! He sleeps most of the time, but he’s so soft and cuddly! Pictures of those when I get them.