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pretty yarn to play with when my brain can’t handle anything more about paleoanthropology, Mongol hordes, or editing historical documents.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.)

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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. 

Leafling heel…..

Designer's Corner, General Knitting Questions, March Kit Questions | April 03, 2008
By Ann Foultz

I have a question, but I guess it’s kinda sorta a general knitting question that happens to apply to this sock.  I have noticed that most socks that do the heel “flap” the way it is in this sock (slip 1, k 1), never tell you which way to slip.  Do I want the knit stitches to twist or not?  I always assume when told to slip, if not specified, that it is knitwise.  If they are supposed to be slipped purlwise, wouldn’t it make more sense to tell the knitter that?  I looked through the abbreviations just to make sure I wasn’t missing some important note on this, so if it is stated in the pattern somewhere, I’m sorry for asking a stupid question.  But, I seem to remember having this confusion before, so I think it’s standard isn’t it?  So….best to clear up the confusion once and for all, lol.  Thanks!!

Leafling Size

March Kit Questions | April 03, 2008
By Marlene

Hi -

I haven’t cast on yet. The Serendipity socks were my first experience with STR and I like it very much. I made the Serendipity socks in Medium on US1 DPNs. I’m thinking that since the Leafling yarn is mediumweight and the pattern calls for US 2 needles, that I would make a Small. Does that sound right? (My feet are 6.5 - 7 and not particularly wide or narrow.)

Thanks,

Marlene (”she who doesn’t swatch socks”)