Actually, you don’t have to be Asian, a woman, or even happy. Just knit!!!!
After several attempts of trying to knit a pair of socks, I finally got somewhere using a very basic pattern. I did not make the leg part very long because I did not think I had enough yarn. Good thing. I did not have enough yarn to make the leg 7″, instead I only made that part about 2″. Isn’t this cool! Of course, this is nothing compared to the more elaborate socks that PWW made. But this is a start.
Last Sunday, we switched back to Daylight Savings Time. It meant losing an hour of sleep, but it also meant an extra hour of photographic opportunities in the afternoon and evening!
I convinced Katie to come straight home from work to model my Clapotis scarf!
It’s knit from two skeins of Fiber Fiend’s brilliantly hand-dyed Superwash Merino Sock Yarn. I made it 5 “ladders” wide and 25 “ladders” long.
When the scarf was a little more than half-way done, I blocked it so that Margit can display it at her Fiber Fiend booth at Stitches West. This scarf helped me (as well as many others at Stitches, I’m sure) realize the possibilites of sock yarn beyond socks. This doesn’t mean that I won’t knit any more socks but hey, I’ve got way more sock yarn stash that I have a need for socks.
The colors looked so different once it was wound up in a ball and then knitted up into a scarf.
Here is the finished scarf before I re-blocked it to get it out of its half-blocked half-unblocked state. The left is unblocked and the right is is blocked.
It wasn’t hard to decide that I wanted to block the scarf even though Kate Gibert, the pattern’s author, prefers it unblocked. Blocking in this case really showed off the colors in the yarn.
Hmm… just a few more months of scarf weather but much more daylight to come!
Materials:
US Size 4 needles
Approximately 430 Yards of Heavy Weight Sock Yarn
Emmett is growing so fast! He’s outgrowing his hats. Nate showed me a picture of a Stegosaurus hat that someone was selling on ebay. I took some measurements of Emmett’s head, looked through my stash, and voila!
Here’s the view from the front
and from the side.
At last, he’s here to try it on. (minutes after he arrived and seconds after his dad put a cuties tangerine sticker on his cheek)
Pattern: Baby Stegosaurus Hat – by me (I’ll write it up soon)
Yarn: Some worsted weight from my stash
Gauge: 17 sts = 4 ”
Needles: sz 8
Cast on: 72 sts
Measurements: 16.5″ (unstretch) circumference and 6″ tall.
Feb 25-26 2008