Sunday, January 08, 2012

Socks and... Not Socks!

This is going to be an interesting year in knitting. I have once again signed up for Cookie A's sock club, the rationale being that having some new yarn show up every two months will keep me from buying more at the yarn store. You know how it is. Stash yarn is nice, but every once in a while, you need something new and exciting to knit with.

These were made from stash yarn. See, I am knitting down stash. My feet are small and my ankles are skinny, so I have almost half a skein of the Meilenweit sock yarn left -- I see leftover socks in my future. But these are a simple 2x2 rib, 60 stitches, US 0 needles. Everyday socks that don't need to be washed too carefully because they're superwash.


You may or may not know that I signed up for 11 sweaters in 2011 and finished exactly 0. So I did the only logical thing: signed up to do 12 in 2012. Makes sense, right? Only this time, I want to at least get close. This is a (somewhat blurry) progress pic of my first sweater. It's done except for the sleeves.


That doesn't mean I'm not knitting socks, though. I have a good 5 or 6 sock projects in various states of completion. These are Hex socks, part of the October patterns from Cookie's club. The yarn is String Theory Caper. Love the colors, the stitch definition, the floofy softness. Beautiful yarn.


I have a business trip coming up and expect to have quite a bit of knitting time, so stay tuned for more knitting. Maybe by then blogger will have fixed whatever issue it is that's keeping me from leaving comments on people's blogs. I know I'm not the only one who's knitting away furiously.

8 comments:

adrienne said...

Oh, the Hex socks will be amazing! I've always wanted to try String Theory Caper - it looks so squooshy and nice.

Kathy Kathy Kathy said...

Hey! You left 2 comments on my blog in a row. I appreciate that very much. 2. I may have that exact same colorway of Meilenweit in my deep, deep stash. When I first got back into knitting, circa 2004?, I crocheted a beret for a friend out of it. Then I bought some more to make accessories, which I can't remember doing or not doing. It's just about my favorite colorway ever. 3. That last pictured pair of grayish socken with the circles? Perfect yarn/color/texture combination.

Bonnie said...

I have two skeins of Caper in my stash. Your Hex socks make me want to drop everything and cast on something ASAP!

Zonda said...

Love your new socks and the ones to be :) Yay for you on the sweater finishing too (FB ;) Can't wait to see the details :)

BTW, sometimes I have trouble on other blogger sites, I have to log in a few times to leave a comment. Not sure why....

Mary said...

12 Pullover... da hast Du Dir ja allerhand vorgenommen :-) Socken sind da wesentlich schneller gestrickt ;-) Ich wünsche Dir gutes Gelingen für Deine Vorhaben, der erste Pullover sieht jedenfalls schon toll aus!

Liebe Grüße
Mary

Rocky Moreno said...

That sweater is looking nice... did you sign up in a Rav group for 12 sweaters to complete, like 11 shawls in 2012 or is it a sweater club?

terri said...

Those grey socks look great and I love the color of the sweater.

Kate said...

Funny, I signed up for 1/2 a project in 2012. I've already failed because I actually finished a pair of gloves.

I love the colors of your socks. They look warm.