All play and no work
June 15th, 2007 at 10:29 am (Finished Items, Random babbling, Works in progress)
Summer is here and that means I’m spending a lot of time outside supervising the kids while they play in their little wading pool. Of course this also means that I’ve got a bit of knitting time on my hands, so it’s a good thing I have enough yarn here to last me for years! Spending the days outside also means that I’m not getting any housework done, but since we’re not inside much to mess it up, it can’t be that bad, right? Right? Yeah, I didn’t think so either. It’s a mess. But if I’m outside I don’t have to look at it, at least.
I’ve finished a couple pair of socks since my last post. Both were fun to knit but ultimately very tedious knitting. I suppose an 8-row repeat at the most will do that to you. Even the color changes of the Trekking weren’t enough to keep me excited. Sad, I know.
Trekking 100, Cloverleaf Eyelet Cable from Sensational Knitted Socks. Shocking, I know.
Meilenweit color 1313, 3×3 Cable with Moss Stitch from SKS. Again. This is more of a hot pink than it appears in the picture - I’m having some trouble getting the color right
Socks modeled by the lovely sock blockers Chris gave my for my birthday. I’m glad he did it, as I never would’ve been able to justify the purchase to myself. It seems a little silly to buy something like that for the sole purpose of displaying socks for blog photographs, but that’s what they’re best for! I’m very happy with them, though! He went all meta and bought the sock blockers with socks carved in them… Amusing as heck.
My Shapely Tee has stalled out - I got it up to the underarm bindoff the first time and realized that I’d gone way overboard with the short-row bust shaping. Ripped it back and did a more modest amount. Now it’s right in the bust but the waist is hitting me way too low, and this is *after* I shortened the torso to accommodate my freakishly short-waisted self. Apparently I didn’t shorten it enough. So I need to have a date with my tape measure and a notepad sometime soon, preferably tomorrow so I can maybe actually have a chance at finishing this in time.
Think I’ll go knit before it gets all hot & humid on me and I don’t want to think about wool.
Deb said,
June 15, 2007 at 11:50 am
Lovely socks!! I seem to spending all my time in the car driving the Princess to and from her social engagements! However, I am finding I have more alone time than during the school year which is nice for catchng up on a few projects!
Robin said,
June 15, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Nigel especially likes the pink socks.
I know that you’ve been craving the approval of my 2.5 yr old boy.
cursingmama said,
June 15, 2007 at 2:08 pm
The socks are awesome.
Julie McC. said,
June 15, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Sock blockers with sock cut-outs make perfect sense to me. Why but any other kind?
Of course, I don’t knit socks, so what do I know?
Jenny Raye said,
June 15, 2007 at 5:04 pm
LOVE the socks!!!! Way to stick to it! You got two beautiful pairs of socks out of the deal.
Holly Jo said,
June 15, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Love the Trekking! I agree about the sock blockers - so many times I have gone to buy them and put them back because I just can’t justify it. Yours are so pretty in the pictures I am AWFULLY tempted. Makes the socks look so….professional. The way the socks deserve to look.