1 down, 1 to go.

I finished an eyelet ribbed sock. 1 down, 1 to go. I love, love, love it. This sock makes me happy. I think it's absolutely gorgeous. made with Araucania Ranco Multi which I had stashed for years. It makes me think of spring, or maybe of field of those tiny wild flowers.  I can't get over how pretty this sock is, and only a little bit of pooling! I'm pretty sure I don't like pooling.

As a newbie to sock knitting and sock yarn, I'd like to try a little bit of everything and see what works for me. I've already noticed a strong preference for solid colour yarns. Though that's not really a surprise, as most of the other yarns I've knit with have been solid colours. The only real amount of variegated yarn has been cotton stuff that I used for all the dishclothes I've knitted. That is, until I discovered solid cotton yarn from Knitpicks. I also tend to not wear much in the way of patterned items of clothing. Polka-dots are pretty fantastic though.
.   I love subtle shifts in shade in yarns like Madtosh and Malabrigo, their sock yarns look really lovely and I can't wait to knit with some! But I am intrigued by some of the amazing colour combos in Dream in Color Smooshy (which supposedly is dyed so as to avoid pooling) and SweetGeorgia Tough Love Sock.

I've learned that size us 2 (2.75mm) make socks that are a shade too big for my liking, where us 1.5 (2.5mm) with a cast-on stitch count of 58-64 seem to make socks that fit very well on my huge feet. I think my next pair of socks will be done on us 1(2.25mm) dpns-if they end up too small for me, at least they're bound to fit someone I know.

Tax refund soon!  And I already have a saved shopping cart full of goodies at Webs :) Including some new dpns, I really dislike my chintzy bamboo dpns, especially compared to my Chiaogoo dpns. I like the Knitters Pride Dreamz, so I'm going to order those in  2.25mm and 2.00mm. They're really inexpensive, and I've not had a problem with any of my Dreamz. I may throw in a set of Karbonz too-just to try. I like than they're made of carbon fiber and have metal tips, they seem like they would be sturdier than birch and bamboo.

Non-sock knitting shtuff; I'm coming down with a cold. Boo-urns. I knew it was coming, M has been sick since the beginning of the week, and B missed a couple of days of school this week. Right now, I feel like something nasty is percolating in the back of my throat. There also is a low grade headache right behind my eyes (I cannot knit with a headache, which means  casting on for sock numero dos will have to wait. *sad face*).

M and I have a wedding next weekend. Weddings are boring. I don't know if I can bring knitting though, will people think that's rude? Is church knitting verboten? I'm not baptised, and I don't practice any religion and the only time I've been in churches in my adult life have been for funerals, weddings and one baptismal/christening (I cannot tell the difference between the two). What about reception knitting? I won't know too many people there and I only dance when I'm drunk (I'm NOT getting drunk at this wedding), so if I discreetly knit some socks is that rude?

I really <3 this yarn.