The sock continues

green sock, originally uploaded by Jazmin_.

It really is hard to be creative about describing more sock. Woot. More sock! Although I'm knitting along, turned the heel, working down the foot and that little ball of yarn is getting awfully little. Awfully awfully little. Hrm. Might I, for the first time ever, run out of yarn before I run out of sock? I'll blithely keep knitting along and hope for the best. If need be, I'll either have a funny coloured toe, or rip some off the top to add to the bottom. Or something.

Airplane socks

photo, originally uploaded by Jazmin_.

Alright so it's not the best photo, the colour is far more mossy in real life and well real life is far less blurry. My iphone is not a great camera and post bloodwork shaky hands aren't exactly ideal either. Still! Having half of Guelph turn up to get bloodwork this morning meant that I had plenty of knitting time. This is the current drag around everywhere sock, started on the flight from London to Toronto, which is why it's missing a pretty picot cast on. I forgot to pack two sets of needles, so it got a boring ribbed start, that I can do in the dark with no elbow room. As I proved. I'm not a small person, but economy seats sure are. And they cruelly walk you through the decadent first class seats on the way to your little cubby of hell, I think if they accepted credit cards on the plane for upgrades on the spot, they'd make a mint. Anyhow, let's see if I can get socks knit before winter ends.

No internet, 4 TV stations.

Apparently that's what it takes for me to actually get off my lazy arse and get going on projects again. An unexpected trip to Scotland in Jan. resulted in me (sensibly I'd have to say) bringing 2 stalled projects and nothing else. It got dark at something silly like 4 pm, halting sightseeing, and well, no internet and 4 TV stations. No MUSHes, no WoW, no blog reading. 3 adults expressing TV station opinions and a TV smaller than my laptop screen. I arrived with 6 repeats done, and left with something like 26 repeats done.

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Originally uploaded by Jazmin_


I have fears that it's going to be too short, but the proof on that is in the blocking. Someday I'll remember that not only am I larger than most (to say the very least), but I'm long through the torso as well. Too short is just a shawlet, right?

Couldn't resist

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I'm still knitting a little, mostly I'm just keeping up with life. Still, I couldn't resist sharing with anyone who might still peep in now and then.

Circle-ish

I decided today to pick up the needles (sure fire sign that the winter blahs might be letting up a bit), and cast on a wee bit of a thing to use as a coaster. Possibly to plunk in etsy as a set of coasters, but I digress.

Alright.. spiral design.. I like spirals. I dont want huge chunks of plain.. no problem, I'll add in some extra lines of holes. Piece of cake. Only a 4 needle set. Well.. I'll cast on 9 instead of 8.

Well it'd break the line to decrease on the first increase of a new line. That's okay. It's just one extra stitch. No problem, it won't make sooo much difference.

Well. If you can't be a good example, at least you can be a horrible warning.

 

If you increase too fast, you do not get a circle. See? You get.. oh.. 130% of a circle. Which is not a flat coaster. Well. Damn.

Warm ears!

I actually finished something! Started and finished in just a couple of days. Alright, so it doesnt look like much laying on a keyboard (the only cool place to photograph FO's).


In hindsight, a tighter gauge would be better against the wind, and it's a shade large. Apparently I have a small head, or something. Probably more accurate to remember that knits tend to stretch. If (when?) I knit another, I'll probably drop down to 3.75 mm needles. Here, let me give you another photo of the fabric, so you can admire the dye job. (All this and modest too!)



It's classic merino, formerly in a sad insipid baby blue dyed with kool aid haphazardly. I used 4 mm needles. Quick quick knit, that's for certain!

Ah ha!

I've been musing on what to knit next. The Baby surprise jacket that I'm sooo close to finishing is in Time Out while I debate how to solve the 'I need more yarn' issue. I've got some UFOs laying about that.. well.. if I was all hellfired up to work on them, they wouldnt be UFOs, now would they?

So! New Year, new cast on. (Yeah yeah yeah.. only yesterday I was saying how I was going to finish things. Shush.) I need to work out of stash because well.. yeah. We did the budget for January and it took me 9 days to realize we hadnt accounted for pet food in it. (Right about when we bought cat food. Whoops.) Nor had we accounted for yarn. Yes.. that's right.. the budget has no 'yarn' category. AIEEE!

Deep breath. Deep breath. The craft room overfloweth with yarn (and fleece and fabric and thread and patterns and and and..) Surely too goodness I can keep myself amused for weeks.. months even.. out of it.

Now.. I have long hair. I wear my hair in a ponytail.. well more often than I probably should to pretend like I'm a professional. Enh. Oh well. I live in Canada. It gets cold in Canada. Ponytail + warm hat = looking like an alien is trying to emerge from your skull under your toque.

Enter Calorimetry. I remember seeing it last year and going 'oh yeah.. I should knit that'.. but apparently it didn't stick until Kat knit one. See? Isn't hers pretty? I am inspired. Now I just need to go stash digging to find something to knit it out of. I don't figure that will be /so/ hard to come across.

I also surrendered, and found batteries for the old camera, rather than magically try and wish the photos from the new camera onto my computer. Or magically wish the new card reader to read the right sort of cards. Maaagic. Now I just need to have something to take pictures of. Here. Have a cute cat photo.