Sock Love

Just finished pair #10!  Yay!!  This is Opal sock yarn in "Smokey Eyes and Colored Lips".  

And I decided you might want to see my sock progress in ascending order.  

And here's the socks that will soon be...  (13 and counting!). Imagine the damage I'll do once school is out!!??

Solutions

So, I can't find my 9" circular needle I use to cast on my socks.  I've looked everywhere (except work).  I'm a little bit upset because that sucker wasn't cheap.  Anyway, I wanted to cast on another sock today and tried a stretchy cast on.  Well, it wasn't stretchy enough, so I tried something I heard one of the YouTube people say and I cast on using two needles.  Oh yes!  It works great!  Once all the stitches are cast on, pull out the extra needle and off you go!

I was able to get started on my Mean Green Stripes socks today and now I have 2 pairs going at the same time which seems to be good for me.

Here's the Opal socks I started last week.  The kids say this yarn is ugly.  What. Ever. Haters. 

And for the record, I'm not all that hip with knitting with beads.  I cast on the Twilight necklace 3 times today and messed it up each time.  Even when I thought it was looking great, it wasn't. So, I frogged it leaving the beads on the thread for a summer day when I have nothing to do but concentrate on bead placement and tension and and that mess....  And I probably needed a smaller needle. 🌷

Wednesday WIP's

Baldwin is taking shape. Tomorrow I'll finish the second arm and piece him together.  I learned how to do a 3 needle bind off that was very nice for his head.  I'll probably use that for my next pair of socks.

(I think I'm going to make him fatter...I mean squishier.)

And I finished the first Regia sock in "Clown Rings" yesterday and got started on the second one.  Still don't like the texture of the yarn, but I do like the sock!

I also started the Opal sock today, but no picture yet.  The kids hate the colors, but it's not like they have the best taste on earth with their underwear hanging out and their britches sagging.  You'd think the socks were for them for as many comments as they make on them.  😳. They wish I would make them socks, but no dice.  Socks only for me....

Knitters Fantasy in Youngstown, Ohio

So, today was a knitters festival in Youngstown.  I've gone for 3 years straight.  You can take classes, swap yarn or patterns, participate in a fashion show, hang out with lots of knitters and of course, buy lots of yarn...

With my self imposed monetary limits, I managed to only buy these 2 things.  Not bad!  I had told myself to only buy yarn for projects in my ravelry queue.  I was not allowing myself to buy yarn because it was pretty and then sit in my stash basket waiting for inspiration to strike.

So, I got myself some #2 needles for "Monkey" socks by Cookie A (they require 64 stitches and my usual socks are 56 so I had to get smaller needles, etc....). And some Opal sock yarn that I've been dying to try. 

But, the best part of the day was hanging out with mom.  It's nice to hang out with someone you actually like to hang out with--in past years I did not exactly have a great time, but I always got great yarn.  This year, I got both.