Success!!

Yes, looks like this is going to work!! Colors are not pooling, not looking like a barber pole. A bit of striping, but that's ok!

So, now we just knit up a couple socks! I feel good about this and am looking forward to seeing what my niece thinks of her yarn . . . will be checking for comments!

Difficult Knitting . . .

Not sure what the issue is, but I've been busy with other stuff and can't seem to do much knitting right now. Must be the proverbial "Dry Spell" you hear about.


I finished the pair of red socktober
socks and took up the Koigu yarn my niece tried so hard to knit. She tried about five or six patterns, and I have tried four or five myself now and am currently trying the RPM socks from Knitty. So far, so good.



I keep eyeing my stash. I have it in open baskets next to my fireplace. All the yarn looks lovely. I NEED to make a baby blanket or two, I should re-start my gansey sweater after frogging due to finding holes, I've even ordered new yarn to make a Christmas present (that one's gonna be LATE!), so not sure what the problem is. I find myself dozing off on the couch, cleaning, doing dishes and laundry. It's like there's a force that makes me do all these other things, thus avoiding the knitting.


Yesterday, it was errands, grocery shopping, and Christmas shopping. Today (along with dozing for a good hour and a half), it's been doing dishes, cleaning, doing laundry - whew. Perhaps tonite the bug will get me. Maybe it's just that this particular sock yarn, although absolutely beautiful on the ball, knits up totally different from what you'd think it will look like. Doesn't matter what pattern, size needle, or whatever. Just different.


I'll keep plugging away and hope to have something sensational to show for all my efforts and those of my niece!

A Trip to the Frog Pond

Or should I say Frog LAKE??? Discovered holes in my Gansey sweater and ended up having to frog the entire thing. So sad . . . . so much work! Strange holes - three of them you could put your finger through. Not sure where they came from, but know I'm not pleased.

Then on to the Krista Tee. Was so excited - finished the front and it was georgeous. So I did up the sides to try it on, and the extra length was taken up in the "around" area, and still showed off a bare midriff - not especially beautiful in a "big, beautiful woman." So, tonite, that became a couple huge balls of yarn, too.

Sigh.

Have started a new pair of socks . . . and am thinking of adding them to the lake. . . . .