Pat's Knitting and Quilting
March 23 , 2009 Dave has been asking for more socks - consistently enough that I actually believe he REALLY wants them! SO....I showed him lots and lots of sock yarn at The Loopy Ewe and WEBS and told him to pick out any 5 skeins for his upcoming socks. The shipment just arrived... It is ALL rather dark, but in good taste and quite beautiful!
His favorite was the Lang Jawoll Silk in dark blue/gray so that will be the 1st pair. Look at the little surprise hidden inside the skein... reinforcement for toes/heel.
It feels soft but strong - a very satisfying yarn to knit with - as long as there is bright light! My plan is to always have a pair of "man socks" on my needles as my take-along project, so that slowly and steadily I will churn out 5 pairs of socks. This pair (and probably all the rest of them) will be 70 stitch, wide rib (6X1) socks, inspired by the many pairs of Marguerite's (Stitches of Violet) plain wide rib socks. I had to do a little math to get the cuff ribbing to match with a 7 stitch repeat.
In other dark knitting news...
Here is my all scrunched up lace project - Alpine Knit Scarf from Victorian Lace Today. I find that I am best at knitting lace in the early morning, so I am going to try to knit at least a few rows on this shawl before the kids get up each morning. I just did some calculations - There are a total of 400 rows - I have completed 136 which leaves 264 to completion. SOOOOO if I knit 4 rows/day which seems doable, I will be done on May 29 :-)
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