09.03.07
Catching Up A Little
Last Saturday, I went to a book signing at Purlescence. Cat Bordhi was there with samples of her revolutionary sock designs. She let me wear her sock necklace, where each sock represents a unique sock architecture from her book, New Pathways for Sock Knitters. There are many intriguing sock designs presented that I am anxious to try out soon.
Yesterday I finished my Solstice Slip Socks, the June socks from the Blue Moon Rockin’ Socks club.
The fit is absolutely perfect and the short row heel/toe with toe up construction really kept my interest.
Started: August 20, 2007
Completed: September 2, 2007
Pattern: Solstice Slip – the sock club’s June pattern – size small
Yarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts Lightweight – Firebird colorway – the sock club’s June yarn
Needles: Addi Turbo circular 2.5 mm
I had plenty of of yarn left over from that project so I started some Solstice Slip baby booties. I have one done. The zig-zag rib really lends itself to tiny footwear. The pattern is interrupted by a row of eyelets going around the ankle for the tie that will be threaded though later.
Thanks to the help of my fellow blanketeers at Orchard Valley, our first Project Linus blanket for 2007 is complete. There were challenges for everyone of us, in the areas of color knitting, cabling, lace, and in some cases learning how to purl!
Thirty 5″x5″ squares were collected from eight knitters: Elaine, Minnie, Christine, Nancy, Jenny, June, the other Pauline, and myself. Jenny assisted me in single crocheting around all the squares which greatly simplified the job of sewing them together. In order to hide all the floats and loose ends that resulted from the color work, I lined the blanket with flannel.
I used my sewing machine to sew the lining in, mainly because it was a lot faster than my hand sewing would have been.
