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| Cold weather = time to get out the sweaters = kitty nap spot |
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Friday, December 21, 2012
Time Flies....
Welcome to anyone who finds their way here. All my blogging these days is over at my homestead blog, 5 Acres & A Dream. Our old house has needed extensive repair and updating, so most of our time is spent on that. And the garden, and canning, and the goats, and the chickens..... My loom and knitting needles are sadly neglected.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Rats And Frog
Rats.
Second sock is 6 stitches (2 squares) smaller than the first.
Major duh.
Frog.
Rip-it. Rip-it. What else ya gonna do?
Second sock is 6 stitches (2 squares) smaller than the first.
Major duh.
Frog.
Rip-it. Rip-it. What else ya gonna do?
Friday, January 27, 2012
A Quick Sock Update
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| The Checquerboard socks are slow in the making |
Just checking in with a report that not much is going on fiber-wise except slow progress on the Checquerboard socks. I reached a snag when I was ready to start on the 2nd sock. It seems I left myself no notes or details about the first one, not even what size I was knitting. So. I had to recalculate and hope for the best. It appears that I've become more relaxed since moving to the homestead, which means my tension is looser! I'll finish up the cuffs when I see how much yarn I have left (a nice thing about toe-up socks). And no, I don't care if the colors in the check stripes match. :)
Monday, November 14, 2011
Found: Abandoned Sock Project
I know this won't take the prize for the longest running UFO, but I think 2 & 1/2 plus years at least gets a nod.
This is the first in a pair of Lucy Neatby's Chequerboard Socks. I started on the project back in April 2009, knitted diligently until May, and then set it aside because I didn't like the way the first sock fit across the instep. That was shortly after we moved to our homestead, and we've been so busy since then, that I didn't think much more about them until they were forgotten.
I found the project recently when I was cleaning out a box of odds and ends, and I recalled that I was going to correct the fit. I tried it on to see what the problem was, fortunately having had the sense to transfer the stitches to a length of yarn when I pulled the needles out. After slipping it on, I decided the fit wasn't so bad after all! Project resumed.
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| Chequerboard sock found after being packed away for awhile |
This is the first in a pair of Lucy Neatby's Chequerboard Socks. I started on the project back in April 2009, knitted diligently until May, and then set it aside because I didn't like the way the first sock fit across the instep. That was shortly after we moved to our homestead, and we've been so busy since then, that I didn't think much more about them until they were forgotten.
I found the project recently when I was cleaning out a box of odds and ends, and I recalled that I was going to correct the fit. I tried it on to see what the problem was, fortunately having had the sense to transfer the stitches to a length of yarn when I pulled the needles out. After slipping it on, I decided the fit wasn't so bad after all! Project resumed.
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