oooo, i love Noro...

Yarn: Noro Kureyon sock in colour s182 and Regia 4ply in black. my regular toe up pattern. a black heel and toe, knit four rows of Noro, four rows of black and you get some fabulous socks!

i put these up on Etsy but i may regret selling them. even if i did another pair with the leftover yarn there is no way i'd ever get them this perfectly rainbow again.

on a personal note, i can't sleep. i went to bed at 6:30ish because i was getting a pretty nasty migraine. i couldn't sleep then either. so i took half of a sleeping pill and finally passed out around 8:00. slept very well. i woke up around 4:ooam to pee and now i just can't fall back to sleep. i don't want to take the other half of the sleeping pill, so i figured i'd get up and do a few quiet things. thank goodness we have nothing on the agenda for tomorrow, i'll nap if i need to :)

socks for sale!

you all know i can't stop knitting socks. and now i'm running out of feet to wear them on ;) so i've put a few pairs up on Etsy to help support my sock yarn habit.

Sock Sale

... go take a peek :D

not enough time to type...

so here are a few pictures of socks i've been working on:

on a finishing SPREE!

i started these socks way back in February 2007. they got put aside for a long time after i brought them to loads of dentist appts with John. i would sit there as moral support and knit... and then every time i picked up the socks anywhere but the dentist office i would hear drills in my mind. i would smell that icky dentist office smell. so they got put to the side for a while.

now they're done. i love them!!

the yarn is Fleece Artist merino sock. the pattern is my own.




and what good would finishing be without a little starting too? new socks in On Your Toes yarn. sweet colours huh!

more finished socks

another pair of Noro Kureyon socks. they took my a while to finish because i just wasn't that into the colour of these ones.

Bellatrix complete

i cast off with a ruffly sort of edging to add a little extra fun to these socks.

they turned out too loose. my fault, i cast on my usual amount of stitches, more than the pattern called for. the dropped stitches loosen everything up. oh well. they'll be my slouchy Bellatrix socks.

oooh la la

what is that in my yarn yummy alpaca sock yarn??

and there it is again in my black Regia...

yeah... lame... i know. LOL. John bought me a beautiful dainty little ruby ring today. i need to have it sized down, so i'm wearing it with a funny clear rubbery "ring snuggie" for the time being.

Bellatrix socks.

did you all hear that the new Harry Potter movie has been pushed back to July 2009?? wtf!? we were really looking forward to seeing it in November. :(

speaking of Harry Potter, i'm working on a pair of Bellatrix socks (thank you Ravelry!). love the pattern! i'm past the heel now on the first sock, but don't have a new photo yet. i'll take one when it's wearable :)

the Tina Shawl progress...

i just finished chart 2. so far so good... the lace is pretty easy! :)

i am absolutely amazed i am still one the first ball of yarn (Fiddlesticks Zephyr Laceweight Wool-Silk). it's *almost* done now, but i thought i'd be well into the second by now.




stitch markers i bought on Etsy. the simple loops are from Sueann Stitches... i LOVE them! no snags and they don't get in the way of the knitting. and the beautiful purple one is from Jen... Just for Ewe. i'm using them to mark the corners of the square.

have you guys/gals seen this?

The Mario Scarf. she's knitting a scarf of the entire first level of Super Mario Brothers. LOVE it!


and lookie... the Alpine Knit Scarf is blocked :) Juliet took a couple of photos for me before i submitted it to Woolly's (my LYS) exhibition.