Well,

I'm not doing anything special for the Olympics knitting wise, just trying to finish my sweater. Which is about 2/3's of the way there. I hope to get some quality time camping next week. I'd take a photo but I'm taking a bath.

I also got a new app for the iPad, which is time lapse photography, so I might do something with that I the future.

I'm thinking of asking Sabine to join this blog, so she can post about dyeing stuff. Since I am pretty boring.

I did a little knitting.

I'm working on a sweater right now, I was going to do something for the Olympics, project wise but I made a hat for a friends mother who has a touch of cancer, and I really want to make decent progress on my sweater. So I can have it for camping.

Not much other creative things have happened lately, as my other job has seriously cramped my style.

My friend Sabine did dye some sock blanks for me, because she can't crochet right now. And we thought about getting a knitting machine and setting up our own hand dyed sock blank etsy store. But we still aren't sure.

I'm also thinking about about working with a pattern crafts person to make some mastectomy costumes. Like an amazon, victor/victoria and others.

The butterfly mittens have stalled but I am hopeful.

Rainbow Socks

So, I finished the socks, they ended up being mid calf.

The pattern I used had me begin the gusset increases 3 inches from the total foot length and it ended up being almost an inch too long. So, I picked out the toe and reknit it to my actual foot length and I used that extra bit to cast off the socks. I also to maximize yarn usage towards the end I grafted the two ends together, knit to the very end of the purple, through on the red, did a stretchy cast off and voila.

Startitis

It's more magenta-y.
But it will be a wispy scarfy thing.

Madrona

So, I went to Madrona fiber arts retreat today.

Took a class on pattern making, and I learned great ideas for getting creative. And it was gratifying to have people think my idea was interesting.

So, I am updating from
My phone, and so I am required to grumble about how I can't organize the photos from here. Errrrr.

Anyway, moving on, so, we have two pictures of the rainbow socks - one with flash and one without. They have turned out to be fraternal twins, but I still love them. Some one asked if I were knitting Jayne (Firefly) socks. Which is an interesting idea.

Next up, my madrona market place purchases - a beautiful red camel heavy worsted weight which will be a hat and mittens. Then a purple sock yarn by Madeline Tosh. Hopefully it will reduce my hankering. That is if I knit it.
Next up, is the new contrasting yarn for the mystery socks, I'm glad they had green and not yellow of the cascade heritage sock. The next part is shamrocks anyway. I would love to do a purple yellow sock combo at some time, but up here it means the UW Huskies. So, the conversation goes like this, "oo, I should knit that pattern in purple and yellow, that would be awesome" "ew.... Husky colors???"

Last but not least, I bought a project bag. Then Erika bought an even cooler project bag, and I had Bag jealousy, but it's all good

Only a matter of time.

Did you think I had lapsed into my old ways?

Well I still haven't updated my other blog.

But I wanted to show you my progress. And my mistake.

It took a long time, but I finally knit on one sock with the other socks yarn. I've been afraid it would happen. Then got complacent.

Ah. Milestones.

Supposed to..,

Be working on the green shawl, but I got to a color change on the socks.

Camera phones suck.