Quiet.
It's been a quiet weekend, a long quiet weekend and it's been just fine by me.
What do you think? This is using Sockotta sock yarn, fair isle affect, #6670, this is the yarn Kathleen was using at Knitnight last Tuesday, and using the Jaywalker sock pattern. I was completely charmed with her sock and on Friday went out to that lys and found a skein of that yarn, cast on, and here's sock #1. Yes, it DID take me from Friday until today to knit that baby. I know. I was busy doing other things around the house....none of which were as exciting or fun as playing with this yarn and pattern though. I started out using 2.75mm dpns, and got down the leg, tried it on, tooooo big, ripped it out and started over using 2.5mm dpns, much better, I'm also using the 76 stitch-count.
I received a few questions about the Monkey sock and needle size...although the pattern reads US2...it also reads US2/2.5mm, the 2.5mm is more a US1.5 size, which happens to be what I'm using on the Monkey socks. I would say to always take note of the metric size if they list it, apparently US needles can be a range of sizes so yes...always check the metric number.
I hope everyone had a good holiday weekend, had plenty of knitting time and making good times, please continue......keep it going...
Have a little fun....
What do you think? This is using Sockotta sock yarn, fair isle affect, #6670, this is the yarn Kathleen was using at Knitnight last Tuesday, and using the Jaywalker sock pattern. I was completely charmed with her sock and on Friday went out to that lys and found a skein of that yarn, cast on, and here's sock #1. Yes, it DID take me from Friday until today to knit that baby. I know. I was busy doing other things around the house....none of which were as exciting or fun as playing with this yarn and pattern though. I started out using 2.75mm dpns, and got down the leg, tried it on, tooooo big, ripped it out and started over using 2.5mm dpns, much better, I'm also using the 76 stitch-count.
I received a few questions about the Monkey sock and needle size...although the pattern reads US2...it also reads US2/2.5mm, the 2.5mm is more a US1.5 size, which happens to be what I'm using on the Monkey socks. I would say to always take note of the metric size if they list it, apparently US needles can be a range of sizes so yes...always check the metric number.
I hope everyone had a good holiday weekend, had plenty of knitting time and making good times, please continue......keep it going...
Have a little fun....
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posted by Marianne at 5/28/2007 05:46:00 PM
19 Comments:
What beautiful socks!! I wish I could get one sock done as quickly as you. But that's OK. I'm relatively happy with the speed of my knitting. :)
Wow, that's some speedy sock-knitting! Love those colors, and, of course, Jaywalkers rock.
what a great idea to use self patterning yarn with Jaywalker pattern - I love them!!!
How Beautiful My Friend!..And Quickly too...love the pattern and color choice..muy bueno!! Happy Knitting~~
This is wonderful! I love the way the patterned yarn and stitch pattern work together. :0)
Man that's gorgeous! Looks like spring, and also very ethnic - sort of like Estonian knitting or similar. Very, very pretty!
Glad you had a long quiet weekend. Aren't they lovely?
We had a very quiet weekend too.I got a lot knitting done. I love that Jaywalker. That yarn is very clever, how do they do it?
Love that sock ..if I did a personality test the pooter would cry and say in a Woody voice "Oh my God such anxiety" .It might detect I am knitting my most supremely weird shawl yet and ask "why another shawl already ?" .
I love that sock!! The yarn looks so pretty and it would really make you want to keep knitting to see the next pattern! I tend to use the metric sizing for my needles but I can remember the old imperial numbers and was surprised to hear Barry's daughter Denise talking about the old sizes....she's only 24!
What on earth is a ESFJ?? cos that's what i am, I've posted the results on me blog! I need about another 2 days this week...any suggestions?
The sock turned out beautiful! I am working on another pair of jaywalkers at the moment too, but was too busy doing yardwork this weekend to take pictures. And yes, the picture on my blog is a clematis. Aren't they pretty?
Yum, that is really lovely. I hope you get to keep this one after all your generous knitting for others?
I did speak with my Dad straight after finishing blogging the other day and we had a lovely catch up. I try and phone every few days but where does the time go?
I like that you thought I was taller :)
Must have some of that yarn! The sock is gorgeous!
What a coool sock! That sock was finished very quickly.
Monkeys are on my list of "to-do"s too.
Loved the socks! Nice choice of yarn colors too. I've been working on footies for my daughter's clogs with Fixation--but as much frogging as I've done I hope there'll be some elastic left.
What fun doing the personality tests: I'm a Turkey Sandwich with a ham sandwich as my best friend!!!
Gorgeous sock! Glad to read that you had a nice, quiet & enjoyable weekend. XOXOX
Surprise - I'm an ISFJ also. :-)
The design on those socks is fantastic.
A leisurely weekend sounds good. Is this week already on the downhill side to the next weekend!
Lovely sock medearie, I'm an Idealist, no surprises there!
Your sock looks so cool! The patterning on the yarn came out in such a fun way. Cheers to you!
Oh, my gosh...I LOVE the sockotta Jaywalker! It's just lovely. I really must try it. See you at the cabin?
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