an FO!

midnight knitting comes to the rescue. we had a rough night. poor Jake was up so much coughing. he was camping out in my bedroom, so i was up quite a lot of the night with him. it's a good thing i had all that knitting paraphernalia to keep my company. i managed to *finally* finish up my Trekking Jaywalkers. no photo of me modeling them though. frankly, i didn't shave my legs today and i'm not about the post THAT on the internet.



specs:

yarn: Trekking XXL in colour 100, bought from TheKnitter.com (love Judy's store!)
pattern: the infamous Jaywalker by Grumperina, with some modifications. i went down a needle size from my last pair of Jaywalkers and knit 9 stitches in between the increases and decreases instead of the 7 or 8 the pattern calls for.
needles: Boye US1 dpns
start date: months ago
finish date: too long after start date ;)

Sockotta Jaywalkers... done!

weird things are happening in this, the land of UFO's... two FO's in less than a week. i know myself well enough to know this isn't the beginning of a new trend.

woohooo... Jaywalkers in Trekking (# 105)! Jaywalkers that FINALLY fit!

i'm glad the weather is still on the chilly side today because i'm going to enjoy wearing these babies!

the only thing that looks a bit off is the top corners of my heel turns... what's with the little hole there? i've done that heel on pretty much all of my socks, this is the first time i've had a noticable wonky stitch. meh.


so... i've been thinking... maybe i should rename this blog 'an uncleverly named SOCK knitting blog' since it seems all i knit are socks. really... i knit other garments, but socks are just so fast, easy and portable that they get higher priority.

i will show you the finished Duet tank as soon as i get it sewn together (so what i'm really saying is don't hold your breath, you'll probably see more socks here before that tank gets the finishing touches).

socky disappointment

doesn't that Jaywalker look lovely there? it seems so perfect! the colours are great, the yarn is fun, the pattern was fast and easy. and that sock is the fruit of my third go with Jaywalker and Sockotta. i cast off on it this afternoon with a big sigh of 'finally!' and spent some time admiring my lovely new sock.

and then i tried it on. well... tried to try it on. i couldn't get it on. i pulled. i yanked. i held the sock in my hands and stretched it as much as i could. i pulled again, yanked some more... finally after much struggle i managed to wiggle my poor foot into that sock. you don't even want to know what i had to do to get it back off again...



what a bummer, really. and even though it's the cutest sock i've ever made, it's a mahvelous thing that yarn can be unravelled just about anywhere or i might still be wearing the too-tight Jaywalker.