Category: Socks
Friday, September 14, 2007
Wednesday night, I finished dad’s socks. They are done. 100%, ends weaved in and all. And surprisingly they appear to the same length. What a relief! I was a tad worried about it, but I counted and re-counted the number of stitches from sock #1 and counted and re-counted the number of stitches on sock #2 so they would be the same. I tried to remember how I did the toe on sock #1, and made sure I did it the same on sock #2.
They look really good. I’ll try to get a picture up tonight. The folks will be in Atlanta next weekend helping my sis move, so if I have a chance to get up there, I’ll present him with the finished socks.
In other news, if you haven’t been reading my regular blog, my baby girl is walking! She’s been taking one or two steps here and there but would always fall over. Tuesday night was the official “first steps” moment. She walked all the way across the dining room and I just sat there watching her with tears in my eyes. I call mom right away to share the good news about her granddaughter. Of course, now the grandparents are itching to see her again, so they can see her walk.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
I showed the finished Thuja sock to my husband and he tried it on. It fits him perfectly! Which is pretty cool, but also sucks, because I know my dad’s feet aren’t as big as my husband’s. So they are most likely going to be long on dad. They are 100% wool so they will shrink if you are careful. Maybe that will help. Hopefully they won’t be too huge on him. I’ll just have to wait and see and cross my fingers. But it looked great on DH’s foot. Go figure.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
I finished the first of Dad’s thuja socks. I also cast on this morning for sock #2. I didn’t get a picture last night of the finished sock because it was late when I wove in the ends and I went to bed. I actually finished it all but the grafting of the toe at my SNB but I don’t ever remember how to graft so I had to wait till I got home so I could look it up in a book. It wasn’t perfect but I really like how it turned out. I hope the second sock comes out just as nice.
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Monday, August 13, 2007
If you’ve been here recently, you’ll notice I changed the layout. I wanted something simple, so I found a decent Wordpress theme that I liked and am now using it. It’s been tweaked every so slightly. I customized the header, of course, and changed the wording in a a few places. This was so much easier than trying to create my own theme and plug it into WP. Because I already had a two column layout, it was easy as pie to tweak my code to fit into the theme. Since this is a knitting blog, it only made sense that I had a “blog” theme. And I’m pretty happy with this one. I may at some point change the colors and if I’m feeling adventurous, add some scripting so that you can choose which color you like better. But I’m not sure if I’ll go that far.
In knitting news, I’ve made it to the gusset on sock on of dad’s thujas. I think the 3rd time is the charm on these. The fabric feels much stretchier but also like it will fit snuggly on the foot. I’ve finally (after many start overs) have made it past the first square of sis’ afghan. I’ve got 2 squares done; 10 more to go. But these are going to be better than the last “squared” afghan I made. These are the same # of rows and the same # of stitches across. *And* these will be pieced together the same way, so when I sew seams, I’m sewing rows to rows and stitches to stitches, so I think it will be much easier. You learn from your mistakes and this time around I have to say, I’m doing much better.
But I’m so amazed that I’ve started these two projects so many times over. I’ve never done that with a project to get it right. I guess I’m actually learning a thing or two in my knitting and “getting” gauge is something I’ve been trying to finally get right. Let’s hope this trend continues when I start working on something that really needs accurate gauge, like a sweater.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
I really hope Amelia likes knitted clothes. I have amassed quite a few garments in my ravelry queue that I’d like to make for Amelia. Right now she’s too young to tell me whether she likes or doesn’t like an outfit, but hopefully whatever I do make will be to her satisfaction.
Speaking of knitted garments, I pulled out my knitted socks the other day when my feet were cold and wore them around the house. I have no idea what the yarn is (have since lost the ball bands and memory is horrible), but I swear, it’s like the socks get more comfy with each wear and wash. It’s pretty cool. Every time I wear them, I like them even more. But they are still a little bulky to wear with shoes. So I just wear them around the house. I have a feeling they will get a lot more wear this winter than last.
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