Gift Socks 4

The fourth and final pair of Christmas gift socks went to Josh, my daughter’s boyfriend.
I forgot to get a good picture of the completed socks before Josh left with them, but I’ll edit the post later if I do get one.
In the meantime, here’s a picture of the start and a close-up of the knit [...]

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Gift Socks 3

The third pair of Christmas gift socks was made for my daughter, Larissa.
 
This time I used Panda Toes which is a blend of superwash merino and bamboo rayon.  The yarn has a little more slippery texture so dropping a stitch can be a bit of a problem in terms of recovery.  But the yarn has [...]

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Gift Socks 2

The second pair of Christmas gift socks was completed during October.
These socks were made for my sister, Cindy.

The yarn is Monkey Toes again.  I bought the yarn for several pairs of socks at the Pagosa Springs Fiber Festival last spring, and chose the colors especially for each recipient.
The colorway is Amethyst and the pattern is [...]

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Gift Socks 1

Ah!  Now I can at last show what I’ve been working on for the past several months.  So over the next few days I’ll be posting the socks I made for Christmas gifts.
In August and September I worked on these socks for my mom.

The pattern is Waving Lace Socks by Evelyn A. Clark from Favorite [...]

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Cool I-Pod!

The last few days have. Been pretty busy. But with Josh, Larissa’s boyfriend here with her, I’m really learning how to use my new I-Pod Touch. It’s very cool! In fact I’m writing this post on it.
I can even access and download those u-tube knitting tutorials so I have them right at my fingertips.
Truly [...]

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Angel “Choir”

The angel wings worked great!  Our Living Nativity Walk went very well on Saturday night and I was the envy of all of the rest of the angels.  They all wanted wings like mine.  So guess what? We’ll be making more of these stylized wings for next year.

That’s me up at the very top.  It [...]

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More Stuff to Knit!

OK, so a couple of days ago I was commiserating about new sock patterns and now I find there’s a new jacket book out from Interweave Press.  I already have two jacket books and am looking to get two more with jacket and/or kimono patterns in them and now I see this one.
I thought socks [...]

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An Angel and A Wise Man

So it’s not couture sewing but I actually sat down at my sewing machine yesterday and in about two hours put together two costumes for our first (annual — I hope) Living Nativity Walk.  We’re setting scenes for people to walk through that tell the Christmas story.  They’ll be bordered by luminaria, or as we [...]

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Sugarplum Socks

As if I didn’t already have enough sock ideas to knit to last me until I die, Melanie has just posted two beautiful new sock patterns for December.  I haven’t even gotten her Elements sock patterns yet, which I am so wanting to add to my sock collection, and now these.
After the first of the [...]

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October in December

My “October” socks from the Tour of DC Sock Club are coming along nicely.  I’ve finished the first one and have a start on the second.

I did a much better job on the figure 8 toe cast on with this second one than I did with the first.

The picture’s a little blurry, but you can [...]

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