Plath’s Adventures

Jaywalker Socks
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I finished my Jaywalker socks! Boy, if you’ve been reading here lately, you’d think I was just a sock knitting blog. So, in that spirit, I cast on for another pair, of course. This pair may be a Christmas gift. I say may, because it depends on if I have the patience to knit a longer foot than my own. LOL That’s the main reason most of the socks I knit end up for me– I have small feet. However, I’m determined to get a few Christmas gifts out of the way early this year, and I know someone who just loves pink and purple, so perhaps… no promises though.

They’re the Classy Slip Ups from Knit Socks! (Knit) in Lisa Souza Sock! Berry Poppins colorway (way too many exclamation points there). The sock yarn is nice and squishy although I have been leaning towards a tighter twist in my sock yarn lately. BUT she just came out with a Hard Twist yarn, though it’s quite a bit thicker. However, I’m really happy with the way these are working up. The pattern is a nice, easy, 4 row repeat, and I think it really works well with the hand-dyed yarn. I’m hoping I can get them finished quickly, as Sock Madness is starting March 10th. I’m a tad nervous, as I’ve never been in a speed knitting competition before. I don’t consider myself a quick knitter!

Ok, I’ve rambled long enough. Marzipan is getting bored.
She needs to get back to her nap.

One Finished Jaywalker

Originally uploaded by plath.

I don’t have much to say today, but I did manage to finish one Jaywalker sock, and am a little over halfway done with the match’s cuff.

I’ll let my pictures speak for me today:

Deer in our backyard. This winter has been tough on the animals. We’ve had these guys visiting every night for a week now:

Patches knitting:

I had a lazy weekend, but I did get a lot accomplished. Jason is out of town (the lucky duck has been in California for the past week and is now in Colorado), so it was just me and the crazy animals to ourselves this weekend. I finished the Regia 6 shortie socks, and then I came to problem of finding a new project to start on.

I’m not one of those cast on a million projects knitters. *Usually* once I have a project to work on, I stick with it. Now there is the rare occasion when I get bored with a project, set it aside and work on something else (enter the fate of this brown raglan, still withering away in my basket), but I usually don’t have mass quantities of projects on the needles at one time. So, I don’t have another project waiting in the wings, usually, after I cast off from the last. Therefore, there’s a little down time between projects as I pick the next perfect pattern. It stresses me out a little, trying to find that project that will be just right. I’ve been wanting to knit up a vest of some sort for work, and have thought about the Leftovers vest from Knitty, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to tackle a bigger project yet… so of course I thought socks (again). One of the things that hinders my ability to just cast on a pair of socks from the nice yarn stash is the fact that they’re all skeined, and I have to lug out the ball winder and swift, set everything up, pull over a little table (because most of our tables are too thick for the ballwinder), and then do up the whole process for one measly skein of yarn. So, I decided to wind up a few of my favorite sock yarn skeins to make it easier for a quick cast on the next time I’m craving sock knitting.

Here’s what I ended up with:

Details here about the different yarns.

Then, after perusing my sock binder, I cast on for my next pair:

Yarn: Vesper merino sock yarn in Knit & Tonic colorway
Pattern: Monkey socks