Knitting Musings

Concrete 1, Head 0

In case any of y'all are wondering, smacking one's head onto a hard surface can result in some pain, a bit of a black eye, and, if you happen to be more than a little tipsy at the time, a trip to the emergency room to double check for signs of a concussion. Luckily, besides a bruised ego and the aforementioned black eye, I'm 100% fine.

So anyway, in MUCH better news, I finally managed to take pictures of my latest finished socks:

New Mexico Socks

Pattern:
my own

Yarn:
Cherry Tree Hill in Serengeti

Notes:
60 sts with size 0 needles; garter stitch rib.

These colors totally reminded me of New Mexico, and, since I started (and finished) the first sock in Albuquerque, it all seemed so appropriate. I may knit with nothing besides koigu kpppm and cherry tree hill sock yarns.

Shield Your Eyes Socks

Pattern:
http://magknits.com/Sept05/patterns/jaywalker.htm

Yarn:
Random solid yellow sock yarn, and slightly variegated pink and orange from ebay seller lotusblossom.

Notes:
Much fun to knit. Did I mention that I LOVE the stripes?

I had to make the socks smaller, but that was easily accomplished by reducing the knit sts to 5 instead of the 7 called for between the interesting stuff. I used 60 sts for the foot, and increased back to 7 for the ankles.

Also, (of course), these were knit toe-up with my standard short-row toes and heels on 2 US1 addi turbos.

In other happy news, I, I mean CRICKET, got a present from a certain California Girl... she supposedly found some random leftover skeins of the yarn she sent me a few weeks ago, and sent them to me. Really, though, Cricket is convinced that it was all just an excuse to send her a few entertaining little toys...