Finished Socks

I did in fact finish the socks from the last post i made (which was sadly forever ago), but have been too busy wearing them to actually take pictures, much less post the pictures. I have several projects going now (two socks, a hat and a shawl), i just don't have time to work on any of them. Hopefully this will distract from lack of actual knitting content:

1. FIRST NAME? Ashley
2. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? Nope, my parents may have named me the 2nd most popular name of 1986, but it wasn't after anyone
3. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY? When I saw Flicka
4. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? Most days
5. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCHMEAT? Roast Beef or Salami
6. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Yeah, I suppose
7. DO YOU HAVE A JOURNAL? Not so much a journal as a venting book
8. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? Nope, don't miss em either
9. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? NO! I like both feet planted firmly on terra firma, jumping off of things goes totally against my nature (same goes for parachuting)
10. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL?It varies, this week its frosted flakes
11. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? Since i primarily wear sandals and clogs.....but no, when i have on laced shoes i don't untie them to take them off
12. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? No, my 3 year old nephew can take me
13. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM FLAVOR? Chocolate with caramel and almonds
14. SHOE SIZE? 8.5
15. RED OR PINK? Light Blue
16. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? my hands
17. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? Yikes, talk about non specific...
18. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU? Sure, its a blog so i don't quite know how it'll work, but ok
19. WHAT COLOR PANTS, SHIRT AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? Dark blue jeans, light pink shirt, black sandals
20. LAST THING YOU ATE? McDonalds (my bf is laughing really hard right now, i can feel it)
21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? My friends windchimes on her back porch
22. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? Dunno, a shade of blue or pink probably
23. FAVORITE SMELL? Fresh cut grass
24. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? Debbie
25. THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE YOU ARE ATTRACTED TO? Their attitude
26.DOYOU LIKE THE PERSON you stole THIS from? I don't know the person i "stole" this from, I read her blog and she seems like a nice enough lady, so i suppose i like her.

Hopefully actual knitting content will follow, i am finding myself with a real day off this week so you never know....

Free Time

I have spent the past week waving good bye to my free (aka, knitting) time. Between school and my newly acquired job I haven't had a real day off all week. That will be changing tomorrow thank goodness. Of course i get to spend tomorrow studying, but we'll pretend i don't have to for the sake of the blog. My second sock out of Austermann Step isn't quite done yet, working and school factor largely into that. Hopefully it will be completed this weekend and i can have lovely soft socks to wear to work. I'm afraid that the beautful socks will have to wait, I want to make some socks to wear with black pants, i'm tired of stealing my moms black socks all the time. The casual observer would ask why i don't just go to the store and buy some black socks and save myself the hassle...but we'll let that slide. I think it's obvious why i cannot just go buy black socks, its too easy. Hopefully the next post will contain pictures of two finished socks...hopefully.

Future WIPs

While reading other blogs i stumbled upon the fact that Magknits had put out a new issue for September. I was looking through it and found two of the most beautiful socks i think i've ever seen.
This one is Lombard Street, I love the cables inbetween the lace panels. Hopefully i can actually knit these, Addi Turbos are not the best for lace work (they're soo stubby).



These are Snowflake socks, and these are in competition with the above sock for the most beautiful sock pattern i've ever seen. These are the kind of beautiful that i am thinking of ordering off white yarn to knit them with, because nothing i have in my stash is worthy.



I've finished one of my socks that i had planned for myself and have started the second one. If not for the fact that i love the colors and the finished one they would be off the needle so fast its not funny. I'll post a FO pic, as soon as both of them are finished. These socks look very similar to the ones i knit for loving bfs mother for mothers day. I will admit to wearing the finished one around the house completely by its lonesome as incentive to keep going on the second one. I keep telling myself that the sooner i finish the sooner i can start another one. Wish me luck with the dreaded SSS, i'm fighting mightily to overcome.

Question

I have a question about cotton socks. Living in FL, wool socks can be somewhat warm (slight understatement, feet furnances is what they become). I have purchased some cotton sock yarn and was wondering how to approach the cast on, more or less sts? Fewer or more rows of ribbing, entire leg ribbed? Any suggestions welcome, any warnings even more welcome. Please help! They are for my loving mom for Christmas (so i can steal them back when she doesn't wear them ever).

I was going to...

I was going to tell you more about those socks that were in the last post (the dangling ones), but i discovered a horrific weak spot in the yarn that made a do over nessecary. I still haven't quite recovered and am actually quite angry for the yarns obvious lack of respect. Needless to say, they are no longer WIP, they have been relegated to the former over the door shoe rack i keep sock yarns in (and boy do i get some weird looks for that one).
I was also going to show you my nifty magic loops socks, but these got to take a little visit to the frog pond. The heel flap was too short, as was the leg. And to top it all off they were waay too tight. So i've restarted them using my usual 12 inch circular. I would take pictures of them, but due to extensive cleaning of the downstairs, the digital camera is MIA (missing in action). I have no idea where it went, but until i find it the blog will be sadly pictureless. I can tell the one person who reads this thing is just devestated, i promise to look for the camera and take pictures.
In the same line as the above "I was going to.." i was going to show you the Sophie bag i finished (and felted) the other day. I'm not too sure about this bag, its a great pattern, very clear and well written. But my numbers turned out pretty drastically different, i was supposed to finish with 70 stitches and finished with 64 or something like that. I know i followed the directions, and placed markers in the proper spots and didn't forget decreases or anything....it was odd. Anyway, it's done and a bit smaller than i thought it would be. It's worth doing another one to find out though. This one was just a trial run anyway..

Drama, Drama, Drama

It has been an evening of drama, went to a baseball game with the loving bf and his grandma. Kind of a lousy game, but the atmosphere was good (and loud). It was on our way home that drama struck hard. It started with my car stalling at a stop light (its an automatic...they don't stall unless something is wrong), it was restarted only to promptly stall again. We barely made it to his house, when the hood was popped it was immediatly obvious that something was amiss. Needless to say, loving bf drove both me and his grandma home and my car got to stay in his driveway.

In knitting news...
I have finished these:



Yarn: Opal Petticoat color number 1246
Pattern: My standard sock pattern
Thoughts: I'm not thrilled with these, I have a feeling that they will end up being Christmas gifts, my only question now is for who?

I've been working on another pair (or three, but the others are upstairs, and I sadly am not). Heres a picture of my other SIP (sock in progress)


These are Online Supersocke 100 that i got on Ebay (anyone else totally addcited?). You can't really see it in the picture, but they've been doing this really cool flashing thing around the leg, hopefully i can get it to repeat for the foot and for the second sock.



I leave you with a picture of my kitty admiring the sock. Ok, so maybe she thought it was a toy, and maybe she bit it after i had snapped the picture, but it's still cute :p

NewToy

I would like to apologize in advance for the possibility of this post being totally error ridden. My new toy is a laptop and the keyboards take some getting used to (especially when your desktop has an ergonomic keyboard). The cat is very leary of the new creature on "her" bed, but was willing to snuggle ujp in my lap as i typed an e-mail last night. Then again, she let the bf pet her without trying to bite his hand off after 10 seconds...maybe she's sick. Anyway, back to knitting, there isn't much to report, got some interesting new 10" circulars from a website i can't remember. They'd be amazing if the joins didn't suck, i'd use a different word, but there isn't one. They suck. It takes so long to coax the stitches over this sucker that most of my time is spent doing it. And of course i ordered 2 of the things, so now i'm stuck with two sets of joins that are terrible. And I know i'll use them, thats the sad part. 2 needles (bad joins or not) doubles the amount of christmas sock knitting i can get done. But i won't be ordering any more, thats for darn sure. Pictures in the next post, i don't have any on here yet so i can't even throw in a random one, sorry. :-(