Mom's Embossed Leaves Socks - Finished

So Mom's socks are finally finished. Though I finished them last week, I finally took pics today. I am now working on Dad's socks and I'm hoping to finish them by Saturday. Ha! We'll see about that - his size 12 feet are working against me. And so is school - a midterm today, three group presentations next week, two essays due next week, and studying for finals (they are the week after). Hmmmm... too much on my plate? Nah! ;)

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What's wrong here? Aron is so sweet that he loved his socks DESPITE the fact that one is a whole inch shorter than the other (and that is on his legs!). How on earth did I miss that measurement?! What a bad knitter!

Finished Aron's Socks!

Here are a couple of obligatory pics of Aron's new long socks. The colors are more rich than the camera shows, of course. I used Koigu's KPPPM. I like it a lot, but I'm looking forward to finally using some of Claudia's Handpaints. I have a few of her colors but really haven't been moving very quickly in the projects department lately. For Aron's socks I did an alternating rib and cable. It was K2,P2 for four rows, then K2, P2, C2, P2, K2, P2, etc. for one row. This pattern was repeated until the end of the gusset. I did close-ups of the socks, so you'll only be able to see some of the pattern and the colors.

Two Hats For One Head

This is a fun little hat that I knit for Wendy. I hope that she likes it. She loves pink and she likes it with grey a lot. Let's hope that she gets some good usage out of it in Chicago! In case it's hard to tell, it's a double-sided hat. I just wanted to show both sides. You fold one side into another, depending on which one you want to wear. :)

A Sock Is Born!

Okay, I've got one almost finished! ;) So much for getting a billion pairs made for gifts by Christmas. :) Who knows- I may get some more done with such a nice break.

Finishing

I have officially finished a pair of wrist-warmer-thingys. They look really cute. A classmate of mine loved them so much that I've committed to making her a pair of her own. She is so sweet- she loves anything warm and comfy. I have also started on a cute pair of arm-warmers. They are the same, fingerless-type gloves, but these go almost up to your elbows. These have a cute pattern, too. I'll post pics once I've completed at least one. Right now I've got to go and rip a row out to correct. Wait- I think that I may have already posted this. Anyhoo- that's that.

Interrupted Seeds

I really like this scarf a lot for a few reasons. I knit it on large needles (as I'm sure you can see) with this fabulous mohair that I found. I decided to add some different texture and different yarn-thickness but keep the color family the same. I thought that these two yarns worked really well together. You obviously can't see it in the picture, but I worked the novelty yarn in three other spots on each "half" of the scarf. There are some stripes of it close to either end and also close to the neck itself. The scarf is very long, and very warm! Now I just need to find a good home for it. Another one of those dang things where I really wanted to be creative with something simple but never found a good home for it. I'm sure that I'll think of someone.

"Oscar The Grouch" Scarf

Okay- the name is only because it's green and really furry. No other reason. Tina asked for this scarf when I dragged her in to a yarn shop with me (poor thing!) and she saw this yarn. I really wanted to make something for her so I promised to make a scarf out of this yarn. She and I have a thing where we (mostly I) never give each other gifts when we're supposed to. Birthday presents usually come at Christmas-time...the next year. Christmas gifts come when we see each other for coffee...two years later. So we basically (and I still mean I) have this tradition that we have to uphold, right? So this is Tina's Birthday present. For this year. In September. I plan on giving it to her - with her Christmas present - at Christmas this time!!! I know that it's hard to see, but this is actually quite a cute scarf. It's hard to see but I just did a very simple garter stitch on #15 needles. Usually with yarn like this, I like to do seed-stitch to allow for some variation in the direction of the "fur." With this one, though, it was very slippery and it was harder to go back and forth with knit and purl. It turned out great. I hope that she likes it! Now the trick is to make certain that she doesn't see my blog before Christmas!

New Pics Of A Wrist-Warmer!

Wow- can you believe that I completed something? Well, techniquely, not really. I completed half of something. I completed one wrist-warmer and thought that it'd be cool to post a pic so that I'd feel obligated to make the second one. Here are two shots of the wrist-warmer. Great hand-model, huh? I think that I'll use her again. ;) Also, here's a ball of the Manos color that I used. It looks very cool in person. I thought it'd be a little more scary than it is. It's funky, but not scary. Super-fun.

Noro Needs A Home

I can't tell you how much I love Noro yarns. I was a late bloomer (I usually am) and don't follow what's "in" until it's been "in" for a little while. I tend not to like following trendy things so much. So when Noro first hit the scene years ago, I took a little while to fall in love with it. Now I've been in love with it for a sufficient amount of time to welcome it into my constant stash. I always keep some somewhere. Now, this was my last Silk Garden (although I do still have some Kureyon that needs a purpose) and I made this mult-directional diagonal scarf and cute little cap. Now that I've made them, they don't have a home to go to. I don't feel right keeping them for myself, but I just might have to. I do love the colorway very much. Hopefully someone will be "the one" to give them to. Otherwise, I'll have to foster them until they can go out on their own.

Aron's Cap

I knit this cap in Manos del Uruguay recently and I wasn't so sure that Aron would like it. He ended up loving the yarn, but we haven't had the excuse to put it on yet. I grew to really like Manos while making this cap. I never knew that it was so "lofty" once it was knit. It seemed like it might be a little bit too scratchy.