Socks for Zachariah

"Positive anything is better

than negative nothing."

~ Elbert Hubbard

Pair 1 is out of Lion Brand.  The heel stripes are really quite nice.

I finished both pairs last week, actually at my knitting group on Wednesday.  I was determined not to leave until both pairs were done! 

The second pair was made with Lorna's Lace. 

This pair is actually the same size.  I don't know why they look so different.  It must be the angle.

And here are both pairs.  Look how nicely the heels on the brown and blue pair match up.  The biggest problem is that yarn is a lot more scratchy than the other pair.

WIP

Okay, I have decided that I am just not good at this stuff. Well, maybe I am good but I don't FINISH much.

This is a pic of three of my unfinished projects.



The lighter blue is Zachariah's sweater. It is a Wallaby. It is a real basic knit (well except for the pouch thing and hood). It is also BORING to knit and obviously good to do when you don't need to concentrate.

The multi-colored project is a sock -- note I did not say a pair -- at the rate this is going it will be just A SOCK. It is in KnitPick's Memories in Geranium. Very nice yarn. YAWN . . .

And the small darker blue ball is the Mystery Stole 3. There I was tooling along, after beating the yarn and needles into submission (see previous post), then WHACK . . . the knitting god said "go ahead gloat and if you look really close, you will see a mistake . . . WAY BACK DOWN ABOUT ROW 9 . . . you missed a YO."

Bah humbug and all that other stuff.

Confirmation, Fountains and Socks

Lindsey made her Confirmation this Sunday. The kids have spent months preparing for this and they did a great job. This is a picture of Lindsey, our good friend and neighbor Wendy, who is Lindsey's sponsor, and Bishop Quinn.

Bishop Quinn's comments were excellent, as always. He talked to the kids about their faith and how they can act on that faith by taking positive actions within the Church and community. He compared faith and how we act on it to thermometers and thermostats. Thermometers react to what the temperatures up or down. Thermostats are much more proactive.

Zachariah took a couple of pictures of the plantings in our church foyer. He is fascinated by the fountain.



Socks ~~ I am not sure that I am ever destined to knit socks. I love sock yarn. I love the feel and gentleness of it and find it amazing that we take this beautiful stuff and put it on our feet. Nevertheless, I still plug along. I did buy on ebay, two skeins of Lorna's Laces Worsted in Black Watch Colorway. Lindsey's school uniform is a Black Watch plaid and I think she would enjoy having matching something or tother . . . I cannot use it for socks as they are not allowed to wear anything but solid color socks. From the same person, I bought more of the Noro Silk Garden (#8). It is what I made my entrelac scarf with and I want to add more rows to the scarf and maybe make a hat or gauntlets.

But the socks . . . it doesn't seem to matter whether they are two soxs on two circs or one sock at a time (on a circ or 4 DPN), I am unable to do it. Bah humbug.

Things I would knit for ME

this is a totally selfish post . . . it is a list of the things that I would knit for me. While you may recall that I was making the entrelac scarf for myself, it seems that Lindsey has more or less claimed it for her own. But then again, she is the scarf queen (currently 14, not counting the entrelac).

On the bus ride in this morning, while I was casting on, yet again, for the 2 sox on 2 circs, I thought that my yarn is going to be so ragged by the time that I'm done that I will have to keep these for myself. Myself? Really? For myself? Is that allowed? (actually, reminding me of the beautiful Saturday a couple of summers ago when Dave announced that the next day we were not doing anything the next day . . . we had been working in the yard all day . . . he said that we were going to eat breakfast on the porch, read the newspaper by the pool, play in the pool with the kids and, maybe grill hotdogs for lunch AND dinner!). Anyway, I digress . . .

Something for me. Besides these socks, what would I make just for me? So I came up with a list:

1) I have three skeins of Royal Bamboo in a blue/aqua/green that I could see in a "summer" entrelac scarf, rather narrow and very soft (of course, I'd have to keep at work or Lindsey would wander off with it).

2) Gauntlets for the office. Of course, this came from the fact that there are times when our office is so cold that we wear winter coats.

3) Gauntlets for walking or waiting for the bus or knitting.

4) Slippers. I love slippers. I love loose slippers that I can easily slip on and off . . . probably felted.

5) A small clutch. I tend to take my wallet with me when I go places, either tucking it into a pocket or in my hand. My purse is too big (knitting, needles, patterns, calendar, current textbook, cd player, etc., although I did recently cancel the Wall Street Journal so I don't schlep that to work anymore). But a cute little clutch thing, something like this, but a tad bigger: here

Or, I could finish the stuff that I have started for me. There is:

a) My Noni bag here. I have it almost half way done in a black/red/gray stripe. It is very lovely. Gee, I wonder where I put it?

b) THE sweater. The Kaffe Fasset sweater . . . I was working on it when my Mom died and haven't picked it up. I should finish it. It is knit from the back, up over the shoulders, including the sleeves, and down the front with added cuffs (6 inch). The only finishing stuff on the whole thing is the cuffs and seams. I am about half way down the front. It is made with variety of yarns and colors. It is from Glorious Knits.

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But, before I do any of these, I have to work on THE socks. Frankly, I'd be happy to just get them cast on properly and started!