Child's First Sock

Is finished! No I don't have pictures yet, as some of you know I leave my house while still dark and it's almost dark when I get home. I finished it at about 10pm last night. It's a really great pattern, and as far as first "lace" goes... pretty simple.



Here's a picture of the unfinished sock relaxing yesterday with a latte














It was taken with my camera phone... not the best quality, but there it is. At that point I had finished I believe 4 1/2 of the 6 foot repeats. I should have done one more repeat on both the socks... but since I didn't on the first one I couldn't on the second one, and that just killed me! It doesn't look bad though, the toe is just a bit longer than necessary (there's about 3/4 of an inch of stockinette before I started decreasing).

Stats:
Pattern - Child's First Sock from Knitting Vintage Socks by Nancy Bush
Yarn - Lisa Souza Sock! Merino in Foxglove (The prettiest blend of pink/fuschia EVER)
Needles - (4) Bamboo size 1 (2.5mm) Double Points
Start/End dates - Jan 16/February 19 2007
Mods - None really. There's a couple of mistakes that we could *call* mods, but we will not.
Recpient - My Godmother Diane. My mom will be taking these to her this weekend in Newport. I cannot imagine a muggle on the planet that would be more appreciative of hand knit socks than her. She's the greatest.

Next up:
I have started the cuff of the sleeve to my Phoebe Sweater. The sleeve is the best part since it actually has pattern. I have told myself that I am not allowed to get farther on the sleeves than I am on the body though. This way I'll be ready to put everything together all at once. It's a good thing
I will be winding yarn (by hand no less) for my next pair of socks. More on that later.

Edited To Add:

Here's the finished socks! I'm putting more pictures up on FlickR because they're just so photgenic.

Hey, check out my stamen

Is it just me or does stamen sound like a dirty word?

Anyways, I didn't have any pictures to put up earlier, and i felt bad, so here's a picture of one of the Lillies in the bouquet pops brought home today. He's a winner.

And here's where I am on my sock. It was taken about 20 minutes ago and the lighting is shitty... but aren't turned heels magical? I wanted toget a picture before I got too far on the gusset. I love my heel.

It's Picture Time

So, I was moved to take some pictures of my knitting, and I really should do this when it strikes, because that doesn't happen often.

These are my mittens, materials from Mia via the Knit Mitt Kit Swap, courtesy of Scout I finished them a little bit ago, I'm hoping we'll get another cold snap so I can wear them. They are very bright and happy and warm and cozy.

Here's a close up of the cuff.

These beauties are made with some hand dyed Rio De La Plata yarn, that's the stuff on the hand. The Cuff is made with one strand of Fuschia Galway held together with a strand of fun novelty eyelash yarn. I have quite a bit of the Galway left over, I think I will make a pair of mitts for Dulaan... or maybe a small hat.

The other thing on my needles of course is my Sock from Knitting Vintage Socks by Nancy Bush. This is the second sock of the pair and is coming along nicely. I won't get to the heel today because I've been dicking around on the internet instead of knitting.

I love the colors in this yarn Lisa is coming out with a "Hardtwist" STR-esque (my words, not hers) yarn, I CANNOT WAIT.

So, two posts today... I am so random it disgusts me. I hope you enjoy it though hehe.