No more squeaking

Thankfully, I finished the socks. The spouse likes them:




He wore them today and I missed taking a picture this morning with daylight. Sorry for the evening blurry picture.

I dug out some yarn I dyed in 2006. I predicted back then that it was going to take me a couple of years to knit it up. Well, as usual, I was being over-optimistic.




And as I go on knitting, I realize how hideous the color combination is. That's the problem with dyeing, you never know what you get because wet yarn looks darker that it actually is. I will keep on knitting and maybe later give the socks another dye bath. We'll see.

Almost Done!

Thanks to watching "Bones" over Netflix. We still don't have a TV and don't miss one, but it's nice to catch up with popular TV shows without publicity.



I have done about 1 cm of ribbing. Maybe I will finish them up today, let's see if I manage.

Heels and flowers.

The squeaky socks have heels. If I'm watching a movie while I knit the squeaking is bearable.



Oh yes, and the spouse sent me flowers. He's totally earning these socks.

Squeaky socks

It's time to start a new pair of socks for the spouse. I did promise I'd use that gloomy gray yarn soon. But alas, not only is it gloomy, it also squeaks! It's all synthetic: nylon and acrylic. It's driving me nuts. Stitch after stitch, it squeaks loud enough that I can hear it and even feel the vibrations on my fingers.



The pattern is Gentleman's Fancy Socks (ravlery link). The spouse chose the pattern, which by coincidence I had also chosen for myself (from the same library book) three years ago.

Tomorrow will be my first day at the new job... I'm so nervous... maybe that's why I can't stand the squeaking.

Happy New Year!

This year starts well enough for me, with a recently finished pair of socks. I said I was going to knit until I ran out of yarn, and I did!



I tried that once before when knitting the sunset socks, also with Opal yarn. In that occassion I was using the Coriolis pattern and I ran out of yarn earlier. Coriolis looks simple enough but it does use up more yarn than a plain sock. These socks are definitely longer.




They stay up if I am not moving around much, but I plan on adding elastic thread later on.

I used this bindoff, which is a variation of what I always do (learned from Vaxgirl), except I do purls instead of knits. The results are very similar.

Another great thing about this New Year is that I will be starting a new job soon. I will not be making as much money as before, but it beats being unemployed, right?