Perfect...

Still no finished sweaters. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I do have a bunch of finished objects though!
-I finished the pair of Maize socks in Lost Lake Heather.

What can I say about these mitts? They are an easy, relatively quick knit. I like them. I like the colour. They won't be worth wearing when it hits -15c, but I can remedy that by sewing in a fleece liner. Or I could just make that thrummed mitten kit I bought on sale last year...

-I finished the second chocolato sock.

Yay socks! These feel pretty damn comfy, and warm!  Made with  stashed yarn from my visit to Wabi Sabi last year.  I enjoyed knitting with the Misti Alpaca Tonos Carnival very much. Of course, the final verdict rests on how they wear.

-I finished the second attempt at a chullo hat with alpacas on it.

This hat was made with bulky O Wool,which I would definitely buy again. It's not rustic exactly, but not merino soft either. It feels like it will withstand a lot of wear, without sacrificing comfort (ie: it's not itchy) It feels substantial. And I suspect it will be hella warm. I may also put in a fleece lining. Because I live in a cold, cold city and being cold makes me sad. I made the ear flaps striped because I was worried I was going to run out of the brown yarn. It came pretty close.
I did the floats wayyyy better this time. Go me!

-I finished one fucking ugleh sock.

But, it's Alegria. The feel makes up for the ugleh. This may be a lonely single, I do not know if I can knit another one. I have nothing else to say about this sock.



Now, while I have not finished any sweaters, I have done a little bit of knitting on my greenfield cardy. I believe I wrote, a few months back, that I would like to have greenfield completed by the end of October. Nope. Did not happen. Gave myself a new deadline-by my birthday (mid-February) and this is so I'll finish it sometime in December and be all "look how awesome I am! I finished it ahead of schedule!"
I'm not feeling this sweater, and I'm blaming the sleeves. The sleeves are so irritating to knit around. I thought I was sooooooo clever knitting the sleeves first. Hah!
HAH!
Never again will I knit the sleeves before the body. The floopy sleeves get in the way, can't keep them bagged while I work on the body so everything is in my lap, and the yarn gets wound about the sleeve and I have to stop and untangle shit. So annoying!

Also, knitting a sweater body, that already has sleeves on it, does not make for easy public transportation knitting. I know this because when I was taking the 17yr old to get her bus/metro pass renewed, I brought the sweater with me. It's a somewhat longish ride on the metro, so I'm sitting there, autopilot knitting the painfully long rows and this woman sits in the seat across. She's watching me knit, intently. Which in turn is making me anxious, and I start making stupid mistakes. Can I just brag a little about how I can knit for small stretches without even looking at my knitting? Welp, being watched, getting anxious, I'm looking at my knitting and making mistakes, splitting the stitches, picking up bars from the stitch below. It's a mess. After about 10 minutes of this, the woman kind of leans forward, not looking at me, and whispers "perfect".
I don't know if she was referring to the knitting, the sweater or the colour. But she got off at the next stop without saying another word.


Met up with mah knitta on Sunday, headed to Espace Tricot because I NEEDED some sparkly* sock yarn. I told her about my plan to not buy anymore sock yarn (after buying sparkly sock yarn, and a ball of ScrumptiousPurl  striped sock yarn) and she didn't even laugh. Not out loud that is. My plan is simple; if I want new sock yarn, I have to knit a whole pair of socks from stashed sock yarn. Sock yarn is one of those things, so hard to pass up, you can get a beautiful pair of socks out of ball that can cost as low as $8!!-so of course it's easy to build up a stash.

The top picture is Tanis Fibre Arts Cosmic Blue Label fingering in "Grape".
The bottom is Scrumptious Purl in "Baby Beluga".
NO RAGRETS!!

Anyway, this plan should help me cut down on the sock yarn hoarding. But since I bought those two sock yarns, I will make myself knit 2 pairs of socks before I can buy anymore sock yarn.



Speaking of socks, a few weeks ago I had posted about having lost a good portion of the notes I took on my pixie dust sock. Today, I decided to rip back the sock to the heel flap, and re-knit the foot without continuing the pattern. I got that all sorted out and it's in my little sock bag for travel knitting. I suppose I could have figured out where I was in pattern if I really sat down with the book the stitch pattern came from, and my sock, but it's socks. I don't want to put that much effort into my socks. I like socks I can knit without looking at a pattern (except to note how many stitches I cast on, how long I knit the leg, and did I do a three needle bind of with 20 toe stitches or 24?)



Another pair of my Leethal Mary Janes has bitten the dust. Sigh.

Brutal. This means I have to make another pair of slippers. I think I'm going to weigh out all my leftover balls of worsted weight and bulky, and russian join a bunch of them randomly and then, knitting with several strands, make myself a crazy pair of slippers. (this led down a weird road of searching for Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colours on youtube, and ending up with "Islands in the Stream by Dolly and Kenny-let's not even mention what was in between)






*oh god, sparkly sock yarn. I was taking pictures of my stash because I was going to add pics of my stash to this blog post, but I never finished taking pictures of all the yarn because I can't stick to one task long enough to complete anything ever, but anyway, while gathering all of the sock yarn together, I found some sparkly yarn. Yup, I had some Biscotte & cie Boreale in a very pretty blue. I did not desperately need Cosmic Blue Label yarn. (no Ragrets)