Knitted Organs... Weird.

Look what crazy knitted stuff my infallible friend Tina found!!

Since I'm assuming these photos are copyrighted, and I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post them myself, I'll just give you a link.

Socks for a Lady

Haha, ridiculous title, I know, but don't these socks look like they should be worn by a lady? Aren't they graceful? The lace and all? PRETTY! And I love purple. It might be my favorite color again.

So... Berlin Muster socks: Finished!! Took me about 2 weeks. Actually it was more like 3 weeks, but there were a number of days in there where I didn't work on them at all, so I'm calling it two weeks.

Anyway, I bought the yarn at the Knit Nook. It is TOFUtsies: 50% superwash wool, 25% soysilk fibers, 22.5% cotton, and 2.5% chitin ("Chitin is fiber from shrimp and crab shells! It's naturally antibacterial!"). There were 425 m of yarn, but I probably used 2/3 - 3/4 of the ball of yarn. So I've got EXTRA! Which makes me excited because I had fun with this yarn.

Pattern for free here. The only adjustment I made to the pattern was that I purled 4 on each round so that I'd have 64 stitches around instead of just 60. Oh also I did a 2x2 ribbing at the top, knit 2, purl 2, instead of the 1x1 that the pattern says. But that was mainly an accident.

This pattern was really hard for me the first few repeats, but by the end, I had gotten the hang of it. It has 16 different rows that you have to do for one repeat, so you really have to pay attention. But it was a nice challenge for me, and I think it is such a pretty pattern.

So, then the Knit Nook had a SALE yesterday too. It rocked. I went in there and spent like an hour and a half trying to pick out what yarn I wanted. Jeez, it was way overwhelming. Like, I should have thought it through a little more beforehand, picked out a project so that I knew how much yarn I needed, and had an idea of colors. But instead I just wandered in clueless and hoped to be inspired. I bought this expen$ive yarn that was marked down 15%, but still was a lot for just about 400 yds, which probably isn't enough for a whole project. So I don't know what I'm going to make out of it. I love the colors and I love them together.

The blue yarn is soooo pretty, and it has all these subtle color variations in it that were hard to photograph. I am thinking about making a sweater, bolero, something like that, but I still need to find a pattern. I might go and buy some cheap-o yarn to do for the bulk of the sweater and then do stripes or something fun with the blue. I have no idea really. I'll probably save it for a while, because I don't want to knit impulsively with such pretty and pricey yarn. My God, I can ramble. Stopping now.

I think I am going to start knitting hats after all. And maybe a sweater. AH that scares me. We'll see.

Summer of Socks

So here are my green socks. I like 'em. 60 stitches around, though, a little small. So I had to make them shorter than I would have hoped because I couldn't pull them up any higher. Sad!


Pattern: Rib & Cable Socks - Nancy Bush. Well I didn't exactly use the pattern, I just copied off a picture.

Needle: US size 2

Yarn: Wildfoote Luxury Sock Yarn, Deco Lime; 75% washable wool, 25% nylon


Yay! These were another pretty quick knit. About a week. Oh, and I did the toe like this, and it looked better than the yarn over method.


This is really fun, knitting so many socks. I am trying to get this whole sock thing down. I think I'm getting there. I'm working on this pair of socks now, the pattern is called Berlin Muster. I linked to it at the bottom of my last post. It is such a pretty pattern. And so frustrating. At least it was at first. I've kind of gotten into a groove now, and it does take me forever but it's going faster now.

Look! I finished the first one :) This might be a cheesy shot, but I looove the yarn.

Summer's fun. My knitting companion has been my laptop these days. I'm catching up on all the old Gossip Girl episodes that I never saw. They are SO GOOD. I think I have fun watching them because they are so opposite of my life. Here I sit, staying in and knitting socks, and admiring the glamorous, drama-filled life of rich beautiful kids in New York City.

Yay, I really like how these socks are coming along. Except this one is a little tight. I should have done another row or two before starting the toe. But it's good enough. It was kind of weird, because with the lace pattern the number of stitches change every row, and the row I ended on was the closest number of stitches to the number of stitches used for the toe part. This is getting too confusing. Maybe I'll think up a creative solution next sock around.

Time for another episode of GG. Signing off.

You know you love me. XOXO.