Oh. Oh my.

I must knit these socks. I must knit them now. I don't have any plain sock yarn, and I really think these need to be pretty plain. So I must buy some (more) yarn. I must have them. I love them. Excuse me while I search for yarn.

I have searched. Raise your hand if this surprises you: I am going to order some Lisa Souza Hand Dyed Merino Heathered Sock yarn, probably in the black/purple colorway (I've emailed the lady herself to ask if she thinks it's too dark for these -- hard to tell on blacks because of the way they play with light) but possibly in the Mulberry or Bronze colorways if that doesn't work out. These will possibly be the Ultimate Socks. I am very excited. I think these will be my reward for Christmas knitting instead of the Wanderlust Hoodie. Then again, I might start them as soon as I have the yarn.

Becky Fix:
You are not going to believe this, but we have our first refrigerator art from Miss Rebecca Jayne.



She did all the painting herself! This was a daycare project -- they've got a new lady in the infant room who does a lot of developmental stuff with them, so this is pretty cool. They're doing triangles today.

And now some pictures of the artiste:








Knitting:
A decent shot of the Cheater Socks:



I'm almost done with the lacey scarf -- I think probably either Thursday night or Friday morning on the train. The other scarf is not working out as planned -- a very stiff hand on sixes, and if I move up to sevens it's going to be way too wide (and subsequently, too short). So it may become a So-Called Scarf.

This is today's lesson (because Tuesdays are for teaching): If you've got a few (or a bunch -- it happens) rows into something and you feel like something is wrong, it probably is. Check your gauge, check your hand (hand is how something feels...usually either stiff or drapey or somewhere in between), check your color pooling. If you can't figure out what it is that's giving you that niggling feeling, take it to someone else (even someone who doesn't know anything about knitting) -- sometimes all it takes is fresh eyes to spot a problem. And if you have to rip it out, remember that this is one of the benefits of knitting -- you can (almost) always reuse your materials to create something new and wonderful.

posted by Laura Y. @ 10:36 AM