Twisted Fibers

I am currently working on a pattern for a cabled sock.  I have made up my own patterns before, but now I would like to get serious and try to publish them on Ravelry and what-not.

You see, I love to make my own patterns.  Usually, however, I will write a pattern and not actually ever finish the item.  I enjoy organizing and creating, but the follow-through–not so much.

I have the cable pattern that I made up out of my own brain and am just putting it into a toe-up sock.  I figure I should start simple.  Who knows, these socks may make it into actual pattern form!

The toe is currently done, though I admit it is not much to look at!

Here it is!  When realizing that there was a severe lack of Dinosaur hats for adult-sized noggins, I decided to fill that void.

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I am getting the urge to knit socks again.  This is mostly because I don’t have a mindless project on the needles right now.  I discovered that I only had some Knitpicks Bare sock yarn that would work.  So, because I don’t want white socks, I dyed it.

With my last pair of socks, I realized that striped is much more fun to knit than variegated.  So I wanted to dye my yarn to be self-striping.  I measured how long the stripes were in Felici and pushed two chairs into position to form a loop that size.  Let me tell you, winding 100grams of yarn takes a while.  It was a sort of Yarn Aerobics because I had to take four steps forward, then eight back for every loop.  After about twenty loops, I started to get a little too into it, I think…  I was listening to music, so it sort of became a strange dance.

I steamed the yarn in two plastic bags so that the colors would stay separate.  Plastic bags work really well for this.  They are hardier than plastic wrap.  The only reason I thought to use plastic bags was because we are out of plastic wrap, actually.

I wish it was summer!  Yarn dries so much quicker when I can put it outside in the 90 degree weather.  It’s currently hanging in my shower to dry because it is colder outside.

I decided to try socks again.  I had been drooling over the lovely colorways of Felici from Knit Picks.  So with another order, I bought two skeins of sock yarn in the colorway of ‘Alexandrite’.  They took me a little over 2.5 weeks to do, which was much quicker than the first pair.

I knit them using Stephanie Pearl-McPhee’s Sock Recipe.  My only problem was a mistake with the toes.  I didn’t decrease as much as called for, so I ended up grafting 32 stitches instead of 16.  This was when I was sick.  That’s my excuse. *nod*  I wore them for a day, and they worked out wonderfully!  My feet stayed nice and warm.

Now I’m wondering if I should try to knit some knee socks…

I wanted to knit something for my DBF, so after hours of looking, I found the perfect thing!  The pattern is Elephante (pattern) from Ravelry.  I have not really made toys before, except for the stray cupcake.  This had a lot of pieces to be knit, so it seemed to take forever.  I tried to do jogless stripes, but misread the instructions so ended up with not-so-jogless stripes.  Oops.  It looks good anyway, so I am happy.  DBF also liked it, which was nice.  For V-Day, he also knit me a toy.  It was a kitty.  I <3 dating a knitter!  He apprecatiates the time and energy that goes into knit projects.