December Socks finished.

The pattern for these is Twisted Mockery, a mystery pattern by Lisa Stichweh. I'm keeping these!
Started: Nov. 5, 2010
Finished: Dec. 6, 2010.
Needles. US #2/2.75mm and US #1.5/2.5mm
Yarn is Hand Maiden Casbah, about 300 yards used.

November Finish

I finally finished these. Started Oct. 1 and finished Nov. 23. These are a Ram Club selection from earlier this year. The yarn is Verve from the Unique Sheep, in colors Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice. The pattern is Alp Hikers by Charles Voth.

I knit the size Small in width and XL in length. There were 300 yds of each color, and I have about 50 yds of the lighter color left.

Progress updates.
I now have one red sock finished. It's the SKA November Mystery Sock by Lisa Stichweh. The yarn is Handmaiden Casbah.

The other sock is one of my designs. The cable resembles chain link fence. The yarn is Plymouth happy Feet Dye for Me, dyed by my local yarn store Susan Yarns.

Progress pics

First a holiday gift. It's finished, but needs a partner for enough yardage, so I'll show it again later. It's #28 in our family series. Each stocking is different, but follows the same basic design. About 200 yds of worsted weight acrylic were used.

Socks in progress
SKA Mystery Sock - I'm knitting one at a time, because of other commitments. Yarn is Hand Maiden Casbah, and the designer is Lisa Stichweh.

Second sock is from the Ram Club, called Alpine Hiker designed by Charles Voth. As the club implies, the yarn came with the pattern. It is from the Unique Sheep. I had to reknit the foot, because it was too small, but this try fits. They're for DH.

October Projects finished.

The Trailing Vines Mitts are finished and the pattern is available on Ravelry. It will be available on Patternfish soon. Yarn is Regia 6-ply, 3.0 mm needles. About 150 yards used.

I also finished a Christmas stocking for a customer. 190 yards of yarn. The yarn is from a huge house sale haul years ago, cheap worsted weight acrylic. Needles: US #7/4.5 mm. This is the latest in a series of stockings for this family.

I will have finished projects for October!! I WILL!

Actually, I'll have 2 projects, which will add up to enough yardage to count. First there are the fingerless mitts. The yarn is Regia 6-ply on 3.0 mm needles. I have designed these and the pattern will be available on Ravelry and Patternfish.

This is part of a Christmas stocking for a customer, the latest in her family series. I designed it a few years ago, and am knitting hte same design again with a couple of modifications.

New Mitts

I realized that a daughter has a birthday on 10/26. It had slipped my mind. What to do for a gift???
Wrist warmers. She's a runner and I haven't knit any for her. I've designed a new pattern, which will be for sale soon.
Yarn: Regia 6-ply sock yarn
Needles: US 2 1/2/3.0 mm

Socktober update

These socks didn't fit DH. They were a little tight and too short. Fair Isle is hard to frog. I ended back at the toe and went up one size. Progress has been good. I'm almost at the gusset with the new width and the socks will be 1" longer. Some yarns and patterns have more stretch than others.

My Mystery socks are finished through clue #3. Unfortunatly the last clue comes out on Oct. 29.

It's Socktober here

Nothing on my needles but socks.

TTL Mystery Socks by Kirsten Kapur in Jojoland Melody. So far we have 2 clues. I lengthened the leg by one repeat, as I like a 7" leg. These are likely to be gifts.

Alp Hikers from the Ram Club. They were supposed to be an underappreciated pattern for SKA, but weren't available to the public before July 1. These are for DH. The yarn is from Unique Sheep.

I'm knitting a 3rd pair of socks, but they will be for the Holiday KAL.

Black Tie, Optional

Final September finish is the pair of socks Adrienne designed for the Ravelry SKA Mystery Sock.
Cast On: Sept. 1, 2010
Finished Sept. 30, 2010
Yarn: Zitron Trekking Pro Natura
Needles: 2.5mm/US # 1 1/2
Beads: Opaque rainbow

Black Socks Finished

Here's another pair of socks for September. These are a birthday gift for a granddaughter.
Pattern: Glynis by Cookie A. from her Sock Innovations Book
Yarn: Bernat Sox, an acrylic yarn

September progress that counts

After 2 little projects with small yardage, I've finally finished a pair of socks with enough yardage to count for the month. I used Hazel Knits Artisan Sick in Chocolatier for most of the socks and finished up with Pinguoin Fine + for the toes. The pattern is from the Ram Club, a sock club for men. Designed by Janine Le Cras, it's called Train to Brighton. I didn't use the sock club yarn, which had even shorter yardage.

More September Progress

The baby kimono is finished. I still don't have enough yardage to count for the month. The pattern is from Mason-Dixon Knitting. The yarn is dishcloth cotton left from my jacket with the lace edges.

The brown socks are almost finished. The toes will be beige. At least both will start the beige at about the same place. That project will count for the month when I finish it and show photos. The pattern is a Ram club selection from last year, by Janine Le Cras. The yarn is Hazel Knits Artisan sock, and with 400 yds, it still didn't cover DH's legs and feet.

Then there is the Mystery Sock from the SKA group, designed by Adrienne Fong. We have 3 clues so far and I'm knitting from a 100 gm ball, so I'm only using one end of the ball.

In a moment of craziness, I started another SKA sock. The theme this month is black and/or white. My black socks will go to a granddaughter for her birthday. The second sock is about 1/2 way down the leg, but it is at work, where the light is better. The yarn is Bernat Sox, an acrylic sock yarn. The pattern is Simplicity by Janel Laidman.

The gray sweater grows slowly. I haven't worked on it much. I'll show another picture when I get to the armpits.

Yarn arrived in the mail this week, a prize from the Dog Days thread. I finished a sweater which I may not have showed on this thread. It took about a year of intermittent work. The body is three color seed stitch and the edges are a garter stitch lace. The prize yarn is Panda Cotton in grapes & blueberries color. Thank you so much for the yarn. I'll have to stop collecting CPY yarn and start knitting with it.

September knitting

I finished one small thing, so small there is no in progress photo. I'll show it again with something else, so it will count then. The basic pattern is Ann Norling's Fruit Hat pattern, with a flower from Nicky Epstien's Embellishment book. Yardage is under 100 yds in worsted weight yarn.

A slow progress project is my Baby Kimono from Mason Dixon Knitting. It's slow, because I only work on it when I watch TV and want mindless knitting. Easy Stockinette fills the bill. The yarn is dishcloth cotton left over from a jacket I made.

There are socks on the needles. The Ravelry SKA Mystery sock by Adrianne Fong. Is at sock #1, Clue #1. I plan to keep these.

Ravelry Solid socks is having a brown month. I have a Ram Club pattern. The given yarn would not have been enough for a man's sock, so substitution has been made. This yardage will fit DH's feet, even if I have to make the last toe with something else. Current yarn is Hazel Knits Artisan Sock. The pattern really pops.

The SKA group also has a color of the month, black, or white, or black/white. I have black yarn, Bernat Sox in Jet Hot. Pattern is from Sock Innovation by Cookie A. Glynis is what was chosen. These will go to a granddaughter.

More August Finishes

I finished two scarves. The green one was started in January and saved for times when I needed easy knitting. A shop hop trip with my guild provided the time for finishing. The yarn is Noro Matsuri. I also finished my Swiss Cheese scarf. This was a guild KAL, using a rayon blend cone yarn that I bought a long time ago because it was pretty.

My daughter asked for fingerless mitts for running, but she wanted her thumbs covered. The chosen yarn, which has purple in it, is Patons Stretch Cotton Socks. I then used Wool-Ease for short covers for cooler days. I figured that if she is running in even colder weather, she has something else to wear.

A new great grandson will be joining the family in September. He will get a new hat, since he can wear the sweater I knit for his sister. It looks like a tomato. The patter is Ann Norling's Fruit Hat pattern.

Final finish is a pair of Lucy Neatby's Fiesta Feet. They've been on my to-do list for years, and the challenge for the Ravelry SKA was stranded knitting. The feet of these are stranded. Last night someone counted up how many patterns there are on the socks (6). The woman is crazy, but I think we suspected as much.

I have shown in progress pictures for some of these (not the tomato, which was knit in one afternoon), but threw them up here anyway. I already have credit for an August finish. It was a good month for finishing.

12m/12p/12boy - First August Finish

I finished my August SKA challenge by Chrissy Gardiner. The main color (grey) is Plymouth Yarn's happy feet solids. CC 1 at the toe is Brown Sheep Wildfoote, CC 2 is Trekking, CC3 is Lorna's laces Shepherd sock, CC4 is Dream in Color Starry.
Needles US #1.5/2.5 mm worked with 2 circulars.

Shown in front of the first nasturtiums I've grown in years. I'd always been too busy for gardening.

Progress report

Ravelry SKA Mystery sock
The final clue came out this morning. Sock #1 is finished. Knitting goes faster when the clues come out on my day off from work. The yarn for clue #4 is Dream in Color Starry. The sock is by Chrissy Gardiner.

Swiss Cheese Scarf
This is a knitting guild KAL. I have marked the middle and the scarf is 65% complete. Yarn is a mystery cone yarn, which appears to be a cotton/rayon mix.

July sock progress

My Ravelry SKA Mystery sock has clue #3 finished. The pattern is by Chrissy Gardiner.

I have started another color work sock for SKA. It's Fiesta Feet by Lucy Neatby. I've wanted to knit it for a long time, bought the yarn and used the light colored yarn for something else. I used the navy because it is the same yarn, so the weight is the same as the paintbox color.

My Swiss Cheese scarf is 1/2 done, but no photo. I got lots of comments yesterday at a party. People noticed the holes and wondered what in the world I was knitting.

July Finish

These are simple socks, but I was working on a number of other things at the same time.

They are from a Ravelry SKA Vintage Sock challenge in June. I used a 1944 pattern written for men and down sized it. The yarn is Lana Grossa Meilenweit Arizona. Needles used US#1/2.25mm.

Cast on - July

This is my version of the Ravelry SKA Mystery Sock by Chrissy Gardiner. The photo was taken on the hood of my car, explaining the reflections.

The light gray main color is Plymouth Yarn Happy Feet. Turquoise is Wildfoote. I'm also using Trekking tweed, Lorna's Laces Shepherd sock, and Dream in Color Starry.
Needles are 2.5 mm.

I'm still knitting away on my orange socks for SKA June, my Dog Days jacket project, and my swiss cheese scarf.

July Progress

I seem to have missed blogging about these socks. They meet the Ravelry SKA June challenge of vintage socks. I started with a 1944 man's pattern and down sized them.I used less ribbing and more repeats of the cable on the leg. My leg is 7 1/2", not 11". The heel and toe are interesting, no ssk decreases. The gusset does nave a skp decrease, which gives the same left slant. The cable was written out. I charted it to see how many rows before the next crossing.