I got a very pleasant surprise as I was knitting along on the Jeans socks Saturday night. I was working away on the cuff and saw that the wound cake of yarn still had some substantial size to it. Would there be enough to knit both of my socks from the same 50g skein of Lorna’s?
Yes ma’am, I can.
The scale is reading 32g after binding off the first sock. In my excitement I cast on for the second one immediately after taking this picture. It sat in my purse for a smidge and came out for 24 on Monday. (Whoa. Zefram Cochrane killed Dr. Romano!)
With the arctic blast this week, I’ve chosen to go minimalist in the amount of stuff I’m schlepping to the office. Opting to only carry what will fit in my purse, I’ve pared the entertainment down to iPod, iPaq, socks and current book. The sock has been my train and lunch knitting, the book is for the PATH. As of right now, I just need to do the ribbing and this pair is done. I now wonder if I can exchange the second skein of yarn for a different colorway.
You’ll notice that the Whisper Rib socks have been yanked from the WIP list. I just wasn’t feeling the love anymore. When you’ve lost the loving feeling with the first sock, hardly a good omen that the second one would ever be done. II decided to cut my losses and frog it. The wound skein is sitting in the yarn basket for its turn to be a plain pair of socks.
With all the sock patterns I have about, honestly, my favorite socks are the plain knits. I might give the Black Purl a go with Feather and Fan toe up, but we’ll see when I get there. I just like plain, basic socks. The rhythm to knitting them is so relaxing and lends itself perfectly for commute knitting. The handpainted yarns tend to look better in a plain knit anyway and since I’ve gone hp crazy recently (bored today so I let my mouse do some sock yarn shopping), I see lots of plain socks in my completed items future.
On other fronts, I’m into the raglan shaping on the front of the Humdrum sweater. I finished the first sleeve Thursday at the SnB. I must fess up that I might have had a small knits math problem with yarn requirements and might not actually need more skeins to finish the damn thing. I finished the sleeve and back using less than half the yarn (<5 skeins) with just about enough of the fifth skein to do most of the lower ribbing of the front. D’OH.
Saturday, besides being the day I finished the first sock, was moving day for the folks. The folks, the monkeys and I moved all the stuff from the old master bedroom to the new master bedroom. Well, almost all of it. Dad had a mover come in on Sunday to schlep their dressers upstairs. This frees up the old master and soon to be Mom-of-Twins bedroom. The carpet was pulled up on Monday (it will be relaid in my current room for Alex’s use.) and the floor guy has spent the last two days sanding and sealing the oak floors. I opted to skip carpeting and go with the gorgeous hardwood floors that have been hidden for the 35 years we’ve been in the house. Saturday I move my stuff down the hall into the room. Sunday the carpet fellow comes back to put the carpet in Alex’s new room. Monday the painter comes to change the brown/beige walls to yellow/white for me, as well as repainting the twins’ rooms. Can you believe it is just about done??? I’ll be sure to post final pictures.
In the meantime, here is Sara using the new wider windowsill in my new bedroom. And yes, we did replace all the windows in the house. Swapping out the original 1950′s metal frame windows that had cakes of ice on them INSIDE the house during the winter, to these Anderson high RFactor windows. Made a HUGE difference. Anyway, having had to do new molding around the windows, Dad suggested going for a wider sill for the cats. Sara seems to appreciate it.
Craft on!
