Quietish

After last week, I’m a bit surprised to find that at least the latter part of this week has been fairly productive knitting-wise. After finishing Penelope on Wednesday, I cast on for another sock. Just a bit ago, I finished it. Odd, that.

Back a couple of months ago when Justin took a trip to San Francisco, I encouraged him to seek out a yarn shop or two (he’s a new knitter ya know!). While he was at it, sweet guy that he is, he picked up some goodies for me. Sock yarn always wins points of course, but he thought it would be fun to grab two different colors so I’d have a mismatched pair.

Well, you can see my answer to that above. Sock number two of this pair (hereby called Fred and George) will have blue as its main color. It’s a simply constructed sock, but I’m thinking about writing it up anyway so I can explain how to do the stripes and make 2 balls of different colored yarn work for a pair of socks. Thoughts?

Yesterday I spent a fair bit of time playing around with a new (as in, still in beta) knitting site called Ravelry. It is bogglingly awesome. Anywho, it made me realize that I should probably take a current picture of my previously mentioned lace experiment.

If the experiment works, as I believe it is, this will eventually become one side of Orangina by Stephanie Japel. The use of laceweight yarn (from Gourmet Yarn) in a top originally written for more of a fingering yarn is an attempt to creatively Knit From My Stash.

And to top it all off, tomorrow I am headed up to Guthrie to take a day-long class with Myrna Stahman, care of SWAK.

Cahrazy.