Slowly but surely I am making progress on the On your toes knee socks I mentioned in my last post. I am finding as I go along that I really like these socks. They are knitting up very soft and squishy and I anticipate that they will feel great on the feet. I finished the short row heel this morning before work and got a round or two past that. I have a few more rows until I start ribbing my way up the leg. Unfortunately I don’t think I am going to have enough yarn though to make it to the knee the way I want. I originally bought this yarn along with two balls of the same in black to make a pair of mittens. The mittens never got made and while I’m fine with that I think I may have to go on line and see if I can get some more of this grey because I really want these to be the knee socks I envisioned and not crew socks. I’ve looked around a bit and I don’t think it should be too hard to find – I need the ball band which is sitting at home to be sure of the color name though – I can’t remember it for the life of me. I may get a couple more balls of the black yarn too and go for a second pair of knee socks while I’m at it.
As an extra here is a photo of the last of a pair of purple socks I finished up recently. I started them sometime early on in the year and put them away when the weather got warm. I pulled them out of the knitting chest last week and was amazed because I only had the toe decreases left to do to give me a finished pair. I can’t believe I tucked them away that close to the finish line. Maybe I was just really sick of them – I don’t remember.
I had a hard time knitting over the summer. I think it’s been about six months since I’ve really been knitting regularly. I chalk it up to the warm weather, being seriously busy at home over the summer and maybe just boredom. I don’t know what’s gotten into me recently because my desire to knit (and spin) has woken up with a vengeance. Over the last few days I have been all over the knitting blogs catching up on those I’ve ignored and planning projects in my head for the winter. I’ve also been eyeing my wheel at home longingly – I’ve got a good bit of beautiful wool my husband gave me for Christmas last year that I’d love to spin up for a sweater I have in mind.
*** don’t think I gave up knitting completely – I don’t think that will ever happen. I just seriously slowed down and my projects got smaller. I have been baby knitting some though – there are two new babies in the family and one coming for a friend at work so I’ve been knitting some of the EZ baby sweaters. I haven’t taken many pictures but I have a few I’ll have to dig up.
Good to hear from you, Jessica!
Posted by: --Deb | November 29, 2007 at 03:38 PM