It Kicked My Butt

I tried and tried, but finally threw in the towel on this one.

It was meant to be a anklet/footie made out of Cool Wool Merino 2000 – a very springy DK weight 100% wool yarn. Very soft.
I must have done the ribbing about 3 times. Mainly because of the fact that I did [...]

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Friends and Father’s Day – socks too

We had another very nice weekend.
Saturday brought WT, Spencer and moi, traveling to Mary’s home to hang out with her and her girls (Abby, Ashley, Mikaela) doggirls (my nicknames: little suede dog and cutie), do some healing work on Ruby (stepmother) and visit with our other friends Jim, Jody and Zoe.
Potluck! I brought some [...]

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A Set of Socks – trust me

I realize that the photo only shows one sock.

So I guess you will just have to trust me on this – I made the set.
There are some issues. The foot fits fine, the leg fits fine but the heel sags. I think I remember a post or page that listed sock [...]

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Public Knitting – kinda sorta

I did knit in public today, but it was more of the knitting crowd sort of public, aka Borealis Yarn. I broke down and purchased a ball of Trekking 105.

Okay, the truth is is that I went there fully intending to purchase sock yarn. I also intended to purchase size 1 and 0 [...]

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Toughening Up

My finger is better; I decided to work through the weirdness of it since it didn’t hurt. Finished up the footies, including picking up the cast-on stitches and knitting on 4 more rows before casting off again. But I caught myself after having added 2 sets to one footie and none to the [...]

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Even More Socks

I seem to be in a roll with the socks thing. Some of you may call this a rut, but I see it as being determined to use up my large sock yarn stash.
Call me determined, motivated, enamored – whatever. I love socks!
Here is my finished set of the set using the previously [...]

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