February 23, 2007

Socks & Nostepinder

Here's the progress on my second Tofutsie. I'm doing the heel decreases now and am so looking forward to having these finished.

1. I don't really like knitting with Tofutsie yarn
2. I want to wear them
3. I want to start the next pair of socks!

Hopefully, I'll get them done today. It's Friday and my day to spend with F, Little Cricket, and we generally sit n knit all day. So we'll see what happens.

A few years ago, at a craft fair, I found these antique nostepinder (singular nostepinde). I'm going to take one to F. And we'll see if we can figure out how to use them to make a center pull ball. I've had them but never bothered to learn about them.

The pedicure was fantastic. Now I have pretty, bright red toes! We also stopped by Barnes & Noble. Spent a little time with the knitting books but didn't see anything I couldn't live without. My copy of The Big Book Of Knitting

arrived yesterday. It's got some really nicely illustrations on different techniques for collars, pockets, finishing techniques, selvedges, seaming, etc. Looking forward to sitting down and reading through it thoroughly. Am still looking for a copy of Sensational Knitted Socks and Folk Socks.