May 3, 2007

Robbing Peter to pay Paul...

I stopped knitting the first sock when I reached the toe. Put it on a life line and started the second sock. And ran out of yellow yarn. Yellow hand dyed never match it again in this life time yarn. So, I joined the yarn from sock one to sock two and am knitting sock two from sock one till they are even. Then I'll figure out how to finish both socks! It's not really a big deal as I don't mind wearing weird socks. I think I might have enough purple to finish, but I have to find something to replace the yellow. White comes to mind as the Minnesota Vikings are purple, gold, and white. But, we'll see.

Here is another pic of the hat I finished yesterday.

The colorwork I did shows up a bit better. It's been washed and blocked, dried and put away on the stack of hats. These hats are really helping me use up bits and pieces of stash. I CO a hat with acrylic to make a roll brim hat, and then realized I could add in a strand of Encore acrylic/wool blend to make the hat even warmer...using two balls up at once!

Blog surfing: Don't these from "Down With KnittyGritty remind you of Neapolitan Ice Cream? Joansie "introduced" me to Brooklyntweed I just can't decide if I go for Knitting content or the photography! Dances with Wools has some great vintage crochet and knitting patterns. And Knitman has some gorgeous socks from Trekking color 100!

A blog without pictures is like a day without sunshine!

My new favorite M & M commercial!