Easy-Peasy Cheat Socks
Here you go: my version of the easey-peasey cheat socks:
The fake Fair Isle yarn is hilarious. Lots of fun to knit -- makes patterns right before your eyes! -- looks complicated; makes socks that are lots easier to wear than real Fair Isle socks, which are a pain in the you-know-what. I may make a habit out of these.
These were Fortissima, and I enjoyed the yarn -- I think I'll try Opal as well; they've got some subtler colorways that would better suit some of my relatives.
And that's it; that's the end of the knitting season, which should have ended two months ago, if the weather hadn't been so weird. Now I'm going to spend a month or so trying to get some OTHER things done (which I'll report on, I expect), but, ever mindful of the Knitting Bloggers Webring rules, I will include knitting content! Yes! We'll have knitting book reviews, we'll have ponderings on knitting, we'll have more Sweaters From The Past.
Speaking of which, Blogger has apparently lost my archives on that compost heap it keeps out back of its corner of cyberspace (you know -- that compost heap that all of us at times suspect to be the ENTIRE Blogger site) -- I don't think they're completely gone, though, as I can see them in some places. So those of you who are trying to read about Roquefort Jello, or find out why I don't knit catnip mice: hang in there. These things might reappear.
In the meantime, though I'm done with yarn for a while, I'm busy in my spare time. When we nuked the dust mites in the child's bedroom, I took down the beautiful quilt hanging over his bed, made by a dear artist friend, and as a result, there's a big empty wall there. So I let the child pick out one of the mottoes from Sage Stitchworks, which creates neo-Victorian embroidery kits using perforated paper. I love these kits. They work up VERY quickly, and they look great framed -- the kits come with gold leaf to put behind the design -- little bit of non-tacky glitter.
They specialize in religious mottoes, though that's not all they do -- I've got an eye-popping "Rise and Shine" hanging in the bedroom, for instance. I'm also working on a very stern "Be Still and Know that I am God," which will hang, aptly, behind my desk at work (ha! so! you want to withdraw from classes after the deadline has passed, do you?).
And, given his choice of the catalog, the child picked out the impressive and mildly scary "For this Child I Have Prayed," which I'm pretty sure will frighten off ANYTHING which goes bump in the night.
Including those damn dust mites.
The fake Fair Isle yarn is hilarious. Lots of fun to knit -- makes patterns right before your eyes! -- looks complicated; makes socks that are lots easier to wear than real Fair Isle socks, which are a pain in the you-know-what. I may make a habit out of these.
These were Fortissima, and I enjoyed the yarn -- I think I'll try Opal as well; they've got some subtler colorways that would better suit some of my relatives.
And that's it; that's the end of the knitting season, which should have ended two months ago, if the weather hadn't been so weird. Now I'm going to spend a month or so trying to get some OTHER things done (which I'll report on, I expect), but, ever mindful of the Knitting Bloggers Webring rules, I will include knitting content! Yes! We'll have knitting book reviews, we'll have ponderings on knitting, we'll have more Sweaters From The Past.
Speaking of which, Blogger has apparently lost my archives on that compost heap it keeps out back of its corner of cyberspace (you know -- that compost heap that all of us at times suspect to be the ENTIRE Blogger site) -- I don't think they're completely gone, though, as I can see them in some places. So those of you who are trying to read about Roquefort Jello, or find out why I don't knit catnip mice: hang in there. These things might reappear.
In the meantime, though I'm done with yarn for a while, I'm busy in my spare time. When we nuked the dust mites in the child's bedroom, I took down the beautiful quilt hanging over his bed, made by a dear artist friend, and as a result, there's a big empty wall there. So I let the child pick out one of the mottoes from Sage Stitchworks, which creates neo-Victorian embroidery kits using perforated paper. I love these kits. They work up VERY quickly, and they look great framed -- the kits come with gold leaf to put behind the design -- little bit of non-tacky glitter.
They specialize in religious mottoes, though that's not all they do -- I've got an eye-popping "Rise and Shine" hanging in the bedroom, for instance. I'm also working on a very stern "Be Still and Know that I am God," which will hang, aptly, behind my desk at work (ha! so! you want to withdraw from classes after the deadline has passed, do you?).
And, given his choice of the catalog, the child picked out the impressive and mildly scary "For this Child I Have Prayed," which I'm pretty sure will frighten off ANYTHING which goes bump in the night.
Including those damn dust mites.
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