Selfish Knitting 2009

I resolve to make more things for myself this year. While this was completed in December of 08 - I'm considering this the first of more knits for myself this year:

Name: Sofia Cowl

Yarn: Caron Simply Soft

Needles: Size 6 Denise Circs

Weight/Amt: Worsted / about 75% of a skein

Pattern Source: One Skein Wonders (pg. 144) 

I also just finished a pair of socks - the last of my sock club yarn. Mad color Weave Socks were done last week and I finally got some pictures taken:

Name: Mad Color Weave Socks

Yarn: Blue Moon Fiber Arts lightweight

Needles: Size 1, 40'' circular (done one at a time on one circular)

Color: Incredible Shrinking Violet (from the Rockin Sock Club)

Weight/Amt: 1 skein

Pattern Source: designed by Tina Lorin. I got the pattern through Ravelry, but it's also available here.

Since April in pictures

Well...April. April was the last time I posted. I took a little break from blogging...now I'm back. Without getting too wordy...here's what I've been doing knitting-wise since April:

Rockin Socks Club '08 - Serendipity Socks

Cabled Comfort Throw (close up)

Easy Lace Caplet

Anenome Socks - Rockin Socks Club '08, October

Secret of the Stole III - Estes Park

Trail Mix Socks

Felted Clogs

Felted Clogs

Gumdrop Socks - Rockin Sock Club '08 - May (?)

Jaywalker Socks

There is more - but these are the highlights. More regular blogging to come!

Rockin Sock Club '08 - Leaflings

Last week I started knitting my March shipment Rockin' Sock Club '08 socks. After finishing my Undulating Rib Socks I felt I should just keep the sock knittin' momentum going. The Leafling socks in the March shipment was appealing to me..mostly because they have a cable looking motif in the front. Plus I'm feeling like a sock project is great to take with me to my weekly Stitch 'N Bitch meetings...small and portable and usually don't take a lot of brain power. If I take anything too complicated I loose my place while I'm chatting it up. That's the danger of knitting in a group.

I'm actually much farther along then what these pictures here show. I've just completed the heel ribbing section and am about to turn the heel of the first sock. So far I love the yarn - it's super soft and squishy and the color is nice too. No color pooling, as some people on Ravelry reported. I'm making the size mediums which have been running a bit big (also reported on Ravelry) but I pulled the top cuff up over my foot this morning and it seems OK. A bit looser then other socks I've made but still fits OK. Given the thickness of the yarn I think a bit looser will work out. The heel construction is done a bit differently on this pattern, though. I'm concerned about the sizing issue after completing the heel portion. A flabby out of shape heel just wont work.

Anyway, here are some other close ups of the leaf pattern. The back is all stockinette so it's rather boring to photograph.

Rockin' Sock club - Spoiler Alert!

If you are a member of the Rockin' Sock Club '08 and haven't gotten your package
then...


- don't look!

From the red of the January shipment, to the green of this shipment... the newest Rockin' Sock Club yarn is here! I love this one...and the pattern is luscious! Vibrant green with subtle variegation in the yarn and a beautiful pattern with cables running up the leg and down the top of the foot. Can't wait to work this one up!

Here's a couple more pics to make you green with envy :)

Progress on the Central Park Hoodie...and other news

All the pieces (except the hood) are complete, have been blocked as pieces, and are already dry and ready to be seamed up! WooHoo! I've already unpinned the sleeves and am about to start seeming them. The fronts and back are still on the blocking board.

I think I'll have it at least partially seemed by tonight. Then it's on to the hood.

In other news, I got my first shipment from the Rockin' Socks Club! It was sitting at the front door when I got home on Thursday. I took some pictures of the package. Since this is my first year in the club I wasn't sure what to expect in the package. Check out my booty below:



Of course, if you read my blog you'll notice that I don't do red or pink anywhere. The few things that I have made in those colors have been for other people. It's funny, I opened the package (in the elevator going up to my apartment...I couldn't even wait until I got home) and I thought....yuck...red. I don't like red. I was disappointed.

But, then I took out all the contents of the package and read through the intro letter with the pattern and the yarn. It was about hating the color red and how giving this color another look may possibly broaden your outlook.

OK. So, I read this letter and was feeling better about the yarn. Then, I looked at the pattern that came with it. OMG! I love the pattern and I can totally see the yarn knitting up beautifully in that pattern.

Now I can't wait to start. :)