The weather here in Texas is riding that ridge between air conditioning and no air conditioning. Its necessary during the day but during the night, its usually a little chilly with the fan blowing on me.

Sounds like perfect nighttime sock wearing weather!

Last night, I wore my Cotton Socks...knit what seems like ages ago but was really somewhere around the beginning of 2006. Honestly, I really dislike these socks--I dont know what I was thinking knitting cotton socks. They feel great for the first 3 minutes and then their give just gives out and they start to fall down. I dont think it was a matter of my knitting or my gauge (though I dont rule that out), I think its just a matter of cotton sock yarn's general suckiness. Just my opinion...I know there are others out there that like it but not this little chickie.

Here they are, pulled up to within an inch of their lives so they could at least look pretty in the photo.

Yikes! Look at that AWFUL kitchener stitch.

It actually looks a little better in the picture than it does in person, where it looks like I just gnawed the fibers into a knot.

At least my sock knitting skills have improved somewhat...I turned the heel o nthe garter stitch socks yesterday and I'm headed up the leg:

I can't claim all the credit though...I did have some help:

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I think I might need to join some type of support group or something. I've become totally addicted to Ravelry...

I spent the morning taking photos of the (sadly) small amount of stash I have here with me in le crappy apartment. Its amazing--even with this small amount here, I've realized just how much I had forgotten. Like this:

I love this KPPPM. Its so colorful. I ordered it from an online yarnshop and, by mistake, got two different dyelots but, you know, I think I like them just the way they are: matching but not exact.

I also fell back in love with this tilli tomas sweater kit:

The yarn is for the Simple Knitted Bodice. I bought it quite a while ago and it got buried in the depths of the stash where it was quickly forgotten. I even have a second tilli tomas sweater kit as well..

I think I am really going to enjoy doing some stash digging when I'm reunited with it in (hopefully) a few weeks once we get moved...

until then...all I have is some pictures of the old tubs-o-yarn.

On the left is the sock yarn and on the right is the rest of the yarn stash (both as of Februarish). My fiber stash isnt pictured but its about an additional 4ish tubs. I can't wait to go digging in there and find all the great yarns I know I already have!

Posted by fruitychick at 10:02 AM | Permalink

Doesnt it look great?

Well, it didnt feel great. After a period of fierce denial and repeated counting, I finally realized the problem: I knit an odd number of short row sections on the leg portion, which made the whole thing off kilter. I had to rip back an entire naptime's worth of work. GRR!!! I'm back to working the leg now....its going to be longer than I had wanted but it will all be ok.

Secret of the Stole starts today! I printed out my instructions and chart already and now, I'm just hoping Webs will come through and actually deliver my yarn today so I can knit the clue up over the weekend. I dont know why I always expect webs to have speedy processing and delivery--I guess because most places do. Bella knitting, for example, shipped my order within 2 HOURS of my order. Webs took fourish days. I realize they are busy but four days? how long does it take a person to walk to a shelf, take two cones of yarn off of it, throw them in a box and stick a mailing label to it?

I do have some back up yarn (Lornas Laces Helen's Lace in a lovely burgundy color); however, since my swift is in storage, I am not relishing winding 1250 yards of laceweight by hand since I will most likely end up with a 52 dollar silk/wool knot rather than a stole.

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Another few repeats done! These socks are so addicting!

A closeup of my favorite ever caston for top down socks, the German Twisted Caston:

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