and now for some pics

These are some socks I am making for a little girl whose brother palys hockey with tage. She told me she wanted some wild socks so this is what she is getting. I got this yarn back when magic strips (I actually got a whole bunch of them) first came out with hopes of learning to do sock. I learned how to do socks and promptly left the magic strips behind.

This is my first Stricken by Cookie A. Wow this women is amazing.

I love the way this sock fit and since I trusted in her smarts it even fits my cankles. I normally up needle size or something to ensure they fit me. Sorry mom since these fit my cankles I will be keeping this pair.

~S

Tage in Net

Not knitting related but Tage had his first solo shut out in net. His past Zero awards the net time was split between two goalies. I am proud of him he played a great game and even thanked his team after

I forgot socks for him

Well I finally found some yarn N. was OK with. He has been bugging me to make him a pair of socks for awhile now but he demanded them to be solid black... have you ever heard of such a thing. heeehheee. Then low and behold some one sent me some monochromatic sock yarn and he said well that will do. I made him short socks with a simple cable but he wore them and seems to like them. There they are in progress at the NH Highland games I spent most of my time knitting while I listened to some great music. I must say I did see many other people knitting and hooking up in the mountians of all ages. I did get some odd looks here and there and a couple people say man i wish i could do that I laughed and told them they could... and they walked away.

~S

Fear of finishing

Why cant i bind off my gothic rose shawl. I am scared to do the final 8 rows cause then I will need a new big project on the needles. Mean while my Striken socks are coming along nicely. I will post pic of both later just want to let you all no i was alive.

The evils of Friday Nite Knit Night

So I had tonight off and N. was home Tage had hockey and then I was free. Yippie I will get to go to Y&F for knit nite. So knowing that I was going to be able to go I wound a ball of sock yarn for a nice on the go project and grad the Cookie A pattern for Stricken that I had been wanting to start and off I went. Well lets just put it this way not a stitch was made tonight. I got there and spent 3.5 hours at knit nite and have nothing. I cast on no problem begin round one..... the stitches don't add up I have 80 on my needles but it appears I need 88... mmm should I correct the pattern. NO I WILL FROG. I frog the cast on and the first round and do it over still not the right amount of stitches... that's it stricken has been struck and it is grounded now. When I get home I shower and think on this convinced there must be some errata somewhere... I look none. Maybe I am the only person you has knit the large in this sock after all there are only 30 on Ravelry. I go to my bedroom thinking lets do the math and figure out where I can remove 8 stitches for the directions or perhaps add 8 stitches to the cast on. I grab a piece of paper add up all the stitches for my size and what do I get 80... how can this be. grrr.....

Apparently you are not allowed to mix and match the directions and I must have been doing so while gabbing along with my knitting friends. So now at 1:30am after casting on at 7:30 pm I have the cast on and 2 rounds done. HEY, wait does that mean I can change the start date on Ravelry to October 4th. wink wink