Proof of Socks

I've been making socks still. The knee high cream boucle socks are on my feet right now.

Jimmy's Regia Silk socks are here:



He hates the pointy toes. :-D So his next pair (cream and gray boucle with a Fair Isle band) will have round toes.


Here are the openwork ribbing socks I made a few weeks ago:



Unfortunately, the flash washed out the details. Still, here's some proof!

The Socks are Finished

Hold your applause.


I knit two different cuffs. Both are twisted ribbing, but one is K1, P3, and the other is K2, P2. Argh!

And I'm keeping them that way. A lesson, and all that. Apparently I knit the first one and then lost the detailed notes, so I took a quick look at the first sock and went on my merry way. I usually knit K2, P2, you see.

Oh, well. I did get back to my oversized Cozy (from Knitty) and am now back on track with that.

The project I'm thinking of starting is a sweater from a British hardcover on knitting, from the 30s, I think. It's garter stitch, in thin stripes. The sort of thing you knit to use up odd balls. I've been thinking about this particular sweater for quite a while, so it'll happen eventually. And it's a very simple knit; as it's garter stitch, not much shaping is necessary.

The pattern is in The Pictoral Guide to Modern Home Knitting, edited by Catherine Franks, A.R.C.A. No copyrite date, but my guess is late 30s.

Maybe I'll cast on for it some time this week (but don't make book on that).

The John Hancock

The bank has signed.

Next, an appraiser. (Or two.)

But it's looking good.



Oh, and the socks? The kittens decided to help me with them this morning. When I found them, Than Chai had chewed the skein off the sock-in-progress and was wolfing down yarn like spaghetti, while Fa Sing created Art from the skein.

No permanent damage done to anyone...though I was tempted to inflict some. Thank God for the Russian join! Sock and skein have been reunited.

Still not signed

...pfui. As Nero Wolfe might say.

We still have not heard that the bank has signed. I hate this. Real people over corporations any time, thank you.

I did start another knitting project. A pair of simple bobby socks in Wedgewood blue, for me. The shawl is getting too big to carry around all the time.

*fingers crossed, fingers crossed*

We want the house.

The Lost Are Found

Some of them.

Photos of last year's FOs (Finished Objects, for you non-knitters, if any). DH told me he had uploaded them to the laptop, so for your viewing pleasure...

Soysilk Branching Out (blocked with points) from soysilk obtained in a swap with Seven of Knitty.

DH's crazy Chess Socks.

My favorite white anklets.

Yellow Checkerboard Socks.

The green socks since eaten by Than Chai (you know, Destructo). (I need to frog the one he didn't eat, but so far I haven't had the heart.)

I knit socks, don't I?

The Red Sox anklets will show up soon.