New Project

Ugh. Another grey one. This one will be for my father. I have not made a cuff down pair of socks for a while and I think I made the cuff too long.

Final Results

I like my new socks. I was not crazy about the colors but let's face it, neutral colors can be combined easily with any attire. I could have made them longer but did not bother.

Panda soy is splitty and caused me some headaches, so I will not buy it again. Unless, of course, I find other advantages after wearing and washing them several times.

Camo socks approaching the end

I started the ribbing and noticed that somehow, I was missing a stitch in one of the socks. Somewhere I must have missed an increase. I was straining my eyes, trying to find the mistake when it downed on me that if I could not see it up close, I could completely ignore the mistake. So I just added one stitch at the ribbing and all I have to do is finish the cuff and bind off.

Last weekend I was at Stitches West. I only went to the Marketplace, and did not attend any classes. Here's what I got:



I was searching for bargains, but did not find so many. Still, I am happy with my stash. We'll see if I ever get to use it.

Camo Socks have heels

They also have a hump on the front, where the pattern begins. Hmmm. That did not happen with my previous pair of jaywalkers. Did I do something differently? The humpis not noticeable when I wear the socks.

Not so ugly

This is how the socks look after several blue dye baths. I would have continued to dye them a deeper green, except that the bands started to disappear. Call me sentimental, but self-striping yarn is hard to achieve, so I wanted to keep the bands.

Ugly Socks Finished

Here they are, in morning daylight:





I finished them yesterday. Today I am soaking them in a blue dye bath, hoping to get deeper greens.

I also started a new pair of socks using Panda Soy. The knitted look resembles camouflage.






I am making my own version of jaywalkers. Once more I had to change the total number of stitches.

DIY knitting loom

A co-worker showed me this video and I thought I'd post it here. Sadly, I was unable to embed it. It's in Japanese, but it is self-explanatory.

I've been working on the hideous socks. It's funny how I don't find them that hideous anymore. Ugly, yes, but not hideous.



I still want to give them another dye bath when I'm done.

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.