May 11 2006
Sock it to me…sorta…
This week I had my 2nd (of 2) Socks on 2 Circulars class at Arcadia. I haven’t finished the sock & actually won’t finish it to actual size. Why? Because this skein of Sassy Stripes is defective. Saturday morning while waiting at the car dealership I was knitting round & round. Then I came to this:
That’s right…one strip of the yarn didn’t get dyed. I decided that would be a good point to start the heel flap so that I would get to the heel turn in class. When I went into the shop on Sunday they gave me a replacement skein. I am going to finish this sock for practice & then it will be sent back to the yarn distributor. So far I’m enjoying this technique for socks & look forward to casting on with some of the lovely handpainted yarns I’ve picked up this year.
I haven’t done a Project Spectrum Green scavenger hunt around the house yet - there will be plenty of items to capture for this - green is one of my favorite colors. Until then, here is a bit of green from the past weekend.
An official Kentucky Derby class from a friend’s annual party. It was a fun afternoon of traditional Derbiness - including a true southern spread of goodies & 2 minutes of us all cheering on the horses we selected in the pool. Yeah Barbaro!
During our summer weekend in Michigan last year I picked up some tulip bulbs in Holland. I planted them in my backyard flowerbed last fall & hoped for the best - the upstairs dog has a penchant for digging up stuff in there & the tulips were no exception. Thankfully, a few bulbs managed to survive & I have been enjoying the blooms over the last 10 days. Here are the beautiful blooms.
In the mail this week was a Happy God-Mother’s Day package from Miss Butterfly & Miss Doodlebug (thanks to Mom for the rename idea for the little one). Inside, a Miss Butterfly original that is on my fridge, a paper “ripper” for making fun edges while scrapbooking & a great knit project tote.
The timing of this gift is great - starting next week I will be a road warrior for 8-10 weeks & so will need to be transporting projects - I think this will fit nicely in my suitcase & I will be sure to have plenty of craftiness with me. I will be in Chattanooga on an assignment - on the weekends when I don’t fly back to Chicago I’ll drive down to Atlanta to spend time with the family. Are any of you in Chattanooga? If so, drop me a line & maybe we can meet-up while I’m down there.
AcK!!! The sock!! Total grr moment! Other than the white stripe, your sock is looken good!! I knit my first sock on 2 circs, it isn’t the method for me!
Love your god-mother gift! So sweet! : D
Oh, the socks would have looked so great - what a shame that there was a mistake in the skein! But at least you got a replacement yarn!
I haven’t tried the 2 circs method yet, but will definitely, I’m quite curious to see how this will work out for me!
What a lovely package you got - a day can’t go wrong when there’s such goodies in it!
Wow, how weird about the yarn - it never occured to me someone could run across a defective dye job. You have the right attitude though - using that as a practice sock. You tulips are so pretty - last time I tried to plant some the stupid squirrels dug them all up.
Great gifts from your goddaughters!!! Safe travels!
I love that knit project tote. It’s so cute!! The tulips are gorgeous. That sucks about the yarn, but then again, kinda makes it cool.
Oh no! I don’t think it looks bad to have the white stripe though. Sorry to see that just appeared!
Love the tulips!
What pretty tulips! Sorry about the white stripe. How annoying! At least you get some extra knitting practice, though.
[...] In February 2003 I took my first sock class at Arcadia Knitting. Over the course of the class I finished the first sock. Pretty soon thereafter I began the second sock. And well, recently week I discovered the bag with the sock and yarn – as you can see not much progress has been made on the second sock. In May of this year I took a “Socks on 2 Circular Needles” class at Arcadia. As I blogged about earlier, the first skein of yarn was a bit defective so I didn’t get the sock finished. When I learned that I would be traveling for work this summer I thought that socks would be a great travel project. Yeah, well that didn’t happen. The work travel is done and no socks were knit; however, I have picked up quite the sock yarn stash over this year. At Stitches Midwest in August I picked up Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles and have started on another pair of socks using this method. With all the sock yarn that I now have I am definitely ready to knit socks. I have several projects to finish before the holidays; however, I hope that the coming months will be an extension of Socktoberfest for me. [...]