Missing Sock Report
I seem to be incapable of keeping track of socks that I’m actually enjoying knitting.
This specimen — known as “Jaywalker” to friends and family — was last seen on Southwest Airlines flight 57 on Sunday, June 25. It was accompanied by scribbled-up pattern instructions, some size 2 Addi Turbos, and some Southwest drink coupons. All seem to have gone missing at the same time because someone (ahem) forgot them in the seatback pocket.
We are hoping that all of the Jaywalker friends can be recuperated at Hobby airport on Friday, but we’re resigning ourselves that we now have no Jaywalker, no Addis, and a lonely skein of KnitPicks Sock Garden in Geranium.
*sigh*
Darn it!
Hurricane Sock Party 2006 Questionnaire
After last year’s evacuation fiasco (thank you, Rita), I decided that this year I would be prepared for hurricanes in a better way. To be more precise: I would remember to put my knitting in the car with me instead of the trunk when I’m going to be stuck on the road for 30 hours.
So I joined the Hurricane Sock Party. :-)
And now … the questionnaire! This whole wedding-planning thing has got me far behind on everything else in life …
Thuja! I found it!
Look, Dell! I finally finished a sock! Aren’t you proud of me?
Thuja has been languishing under a pillow in my armchair for over a week. I couldn’t figure out where it had gotten off to after I got home from … Dallas! That’s the last airplane I’d been on with it. Anyway. I couldn’t remember where it was, and I was annoyed about that because the only thing left was grafting the toe. So tonight I hunted it down, found a video to help me with Kitchener. I still like three-needle bind-off better, but I didn’t know if it was “acceptable” for socks.
And look! It all worked. And it’s soft, and it’s comfy, and it’s warm. That last bit is not something I really want in Houston right now, though, so Thuja and I wanted a little bit of cooler weather. We had to settle for watching Carolina score yet again on Edmonton.
It’s intermission now, though, so Thuja decided to meet Clive. All good dormousie knitting products must pass under the Whiskered One’s inspection. He is thrilled.
(Most of) one skein of yarn down! Wow … it’s going to take a while to get through this stash …
Jaywalking on a plane …
Socks are a lot better as traveling companions than sitting-at-home knitting. I’ve managed to start two socks and make significant progress while sitting on airplanes. They fold up well — I’m using only Magic Loop because the 80-point DPN triangulation makes me want to hurt someone. They’re soft. They give you an instant “Cool …” factor when people ask what you’re knitting, you tell them, and they can immediately recognize the thing that’s dangling from your pointy objects.
My problem, as always, is just finishing the darn things. I have a Thuja ready for toe grafting but I can’t find the blasted sock. I know it’s somewhere in my living room, but I have no idea where. That’s why I now also have one-third of a Jaywalker. (I’ve made progress since I took this picture and sent it to Adelle from the airplane stop.) It’s on a different needle size, you see, so I’m able to get going with it. I just need to actually FINISH an entire pair, and I’ll feel much better.
Still not entirely sold on knitting socks all the time at home, though. I still have an Eris that needs to be finished, an Audrey that should have been knit last year, and a couple of other things. I do have a ball winder and swift now, though, so that should help!!
And yes, these socks are all from stash. Yay me!
Confessions of a dormouse: Summer of Stash KAL
I just posted this over at the SoSKAL page … here’s hoping I can make it!
I have to first admit that I didn’t even volunteer myself for the Summer of Stash idea … my fiancé volunteered me! It went something like this: “Erin, you know … if you didn’t buy yarn until the wedding, I bet we could save a lot of money.” The wedding is November 18 and we were engaged April 21. I think I can, I think I can. Thank goodness it’s not a long engagement! So …
My goals:
* Complete three garment items for myself. I have Eris almost done, yarn for Audrey (too lazy to look for links right now), yarn for Something Red, although it’s Something Thistle for me, and I’m sure I’ve got yarn for something else.
* Use up the sock yarn I keep buying and stuffing in a basket in the closet. Baby sweaters, scarves, maybe even some actual socks … what an idea!
* Get rid of the stuff I’m not ever going to use.
My exceptions:
* I’m allowed to keep yarn other people buy me. But no, I’m not going to start a yarn registry.
My reward:
* I have more room to stash wedding china. ;-)
* You better believe that I’ll be finding a yarn store wherever we go for our honeymoon, if at all possible!
