Leafings, they are done!

Notorious Sock Knitters | April 14, 2008
By Jo

As always, the goddesses at BMFA have dyed a fabulous yarn to compliment a great pattern!  I LOVE these SOCKS!

The Great Yarn Crawl to Camp Crows Feet

Camp Crows Feet, Notorious Sock Knitters | April 12, 2008
By Alice in the Heartland

Four of us gathered last night to begin the assembling of campers for the great pre-camp yarn crawl. Provided no flights are delayed we will be heading out around noon to terrorize yarn stores all over the greater Seattle area. First stop will be Weaving Works, then we may ooze on over to Acorn Street. Time will tell. After that it will be a scenic trip through the Arboretum to Tricorter. At anytime we may cut away and head to the ferry for our trip to Bainbridge Island and Churchmouse Yarns and Teas. There is word of Ice Cream being nearby so a pause may be in order. Dinner is to happen at Cafe Nola followed by a ferry trip back to Seattle ahead of the Mariners game letting out. Hopefully we’ll get a flickr page going so we can show you some of the stash enhancements that we make. More as comments later. Happy Knitting, Alice

Starting over….

Notorious Sock Knitters | April 05, 2008
By Robin Cadmus

Ok….I did it!! Now I feel better. It all started out with wanting to knit 2 socks on 2 circulars but I had to go out of town and I desperately wanted to take this yummy yarn with me to work on during travel.  I did not have time to divide it in half so I just started out as directed.  I made the medium and alas! it was too large so I went down to the small and I am not happy with the fit. My gauge was a tad off (28.5 sts/4 in) and I thought that would be OK.  It wasn’t.  So I made it all the way to the toe decrease and  when I tried the sock on it was too slouchy.  My ball winder is in action dividing the yarn so I can start where I wanted to in the first place.  I decided to try my new Hiya Hiya needles in size 1.5.  I can’t remember the mm sizing.  I will keep you all posted.  It tended to pool a little on the top and then on the foot.  So we’ll see what happens this time around.

Robin in California. 

P.S. I wish we were at camp having fun with you all.

Shhh! Don’t tell Tina, but it’s not a sock!

Notorious Sock Knitters | April 04, 2008
By Lisa

Between last quarter’s class content and this quarter’s projects, my brain could not wrap itself around a sock pattern.  But I couldn’t NOT do something with “Lucky.”  So I’m working on this scarf.  It’s “Brooke’s Column of Leaves” pattern, but I’m working it in a larger needle size because I want something loose.  When I block it out, it will be about twice as wide as it is now, and a lovely spring wrap/scarf.  I work on it mostly on the train to and from classes; it’s nice to have pretty yarn to play with when my brain can’t handle anything more about paleoanthropology, Mongol hordes, or editing historical documents.

(Picture link is to the scarf at my wordpress blog.)

Why to read the blog.

Camp Crows Feet, Notorious Sock Knitters | April 04, 2008
By Alice in the Heartland

You’re first to see Tina’s contests. You’re first to see what the designer has to say about the current pattern. And you get help from other loyal blog readers. That said I need you to know that this blog mom may not be following things very closely for the next couple of weeks. The obvious reason is I’m heading to sock camp. The not so obvious reason is the DH has landed himself back in the hospital with a fever of 105.6º. This is a record for him but similar has happened before and so it’s not an unusual event around our house. (Suppressed immune systems tend to react poorly to bugs and viruses.) After multiple antibiotics the fever is under 99º and things are following a path we’ve travelled a few times in the last couple of years. However I tend to stick close to him during these events and so won’t be paying much attention to on-line things. Hope everyone has a great time with Lucky. I’m still trying to get Serendipity to behave. I may change loyalties and go right on to Lucky. I did manage to get the last of last year’s yarns knit up before the #&*% hit the fan around here. Sometimes it makes for wonderful knitting time and others my brain takes a vacation and can only handle basic sock patterns (thank you Cat and Stephanie) Time to head back to the hospital, Happy Knitting, AliceP.S. Still looking forward to the yarn crawl and the alpaca farms and a heavy dose of R&R with the sockateers and other campers.