Finished Object Face

The tunes today are: A mix of the few Tom Petty songs I like (breakdown, refugee, stop draggin my heart around) the two Jethro Tull songs I like (locomotive breath, aqualung)  A couple of Fleetwood Mac songs and a bunch of covers put together by AV CLUB  (Gwar covering "carry on my wayward song is great, Sharon Van Ettan and Shearwater do a wonderful version of  Stop Dragging my Heart Around. Dresden Dolls covering Neutral Milk Hotel is uh-,azing and Nada Surf's version of Bizarre Love Triangle is my favouritest ever)

FO TIME!
Awww yeah, check it-finished watermelon socks!

Managed to finish them earlier than I thought, I think it was a day or two after my last post? I've already worn them twice heh. I luff them. Except for two things, I should have made the leg longer (because these are so cute) and I could have made the foot a touch longer, like just one or two more rounds before the decreases. I totally made the Finished Object emoticon face after finishing these socks.
Damn you Biscotte & Cie for making absolutely irresistible stripey sock yarns. I cannot knit nearly fast enough to satisfy my desire to wear all the striped socks!

It took me until the end of the week to finish my Noro Silk Garden Sock HitchHiker, mostly because I wasn't picking it up. It was not a knit-heavy week last week. I just couldn't be arsed to finish it. Finally forced myself, and instead of doing one more point (from the 38 I was at last week) I went up to 40 points before I bound off.

It's big! But I love the colours and of course the weather had been too fabulous to wear it (26c yesterday!) as it's slightly heavier than the hitchhiker made from SweetGeorgia Tough Love sock. It was the perfect thing this morning though, as it was a bit chilly.

 As you can see, I'm pleased with it.

Somewhere in between finishing the watermelon socks and the hitchhiker, I cast on another pair of socks-just a plain old vanilla sock .  (in the waiting room of a local clinic)

I'm using some stashed (of course) yarn called Knit One Crochet Too Ty-Dy Sock dots. It's supposed to look like polka dots when knitted up. (knitting in yet another clinic)

I'm not seeing polka dots.  It reminds me of Funfetti cake (do not click this link while hungry, you've been warned)-but in neutrals. So while I am somewhat disappointed that there is no real polka dot happening, I still like the sock.  I suppose the only real way to do polka dots would be intarsia?
I will never have real polka dots on knitted socks unless someone knits them for me. I am NOT interested in doing intarsia on socks. Fuck that noise. The only colour work on my socks will be from self striping/self-patterning yarn.
Anywhooo, it's about time to knit the heel flap, so I'll have to cast on the second sock as soon as possible so I can have portable, mindless knitting with me the next time I'm on public transportation.

I did not knit on my Pixie Dust sock. Not even once. *shrugs*
It'll happen.
Eventually.

But I did cast on Wingspan! I'm using some Blue Moon Fibre Arts Socks That Rock in Deep Unrelenting Grey that I picked up at La Maison Tricotee.
It is a deeper and more unrelenting a grey than this picture shows.

Gorgeous stuff.
I love the construction of this shawl/shawlette/scarf thingy. It's neat! I like the short rows, and it's almost completely mindless. (note: I said almost-I have forgotten to slip a stitch, knitting it instead, three or four times ha!) While I adore this colour, A is making hers using some Zauberball (not sure if it's crazy zauberball  or just regular zauberball) and I think this pattern looks better with a stripey, colourful yarn.

I started the second triangle yesterday morning, and haven't worked on it since, but I would like to be on the third triangle by the end of the week. Maybe I'll work on it this afternoon, chill out on the deck and enjoy the sunshine and some homemade ice tea.

As for purchaseables, Etsy has struck again. What happened was this: I was actually looking for reviews of a particular sock yarn (and I can't even remember which sock yarn haha) and it led me to this website that was advertising the Sock Ruler. Except they were all sold out. So cruel!  Google leads to Etsy. Purchased. This all happened in under 10 minutes. I was in a fugue state. I barely remember clicking "add to cart".  A week later, a green envelope arrived. With little wee gifties!

I love little wee gifties! In case you can't tell from the picture, there is a lavender sachet (I do love me some lavender) and it smells fantastically fresh. Plus some locking stitch markers and a small sample of superwash Blue Faced Leister/Nylon sock yarn in a really pretty colourway called "Spruce Forest". Thank you Friends in Fiber!

I'm really stoked about this tool, measuring the foot is one of those things I struggle with-do I stretch out the sock a little? did I stretch out the first sock? Are they going to be a quarter of an inch off because I used a different measuring tape (this has happened to me before) It's not just a nifty gadget, it's going to be vry useful!

And yes, that is my abandoned Cabarat sock. And yes, that could be my portable knitting-but it's not going to be, it's already been shoved back into a project back and hidden away. I don't even feel bad. To show how un-bad I feel, I'm going to go grab pretty yarn (wingspan) and go knit in the sunshine!