It's been a busy almost-week.  Let's see, last time I posted here was Tuesday, with pictures of the Nicor contractor's truck and trailer.

I'd stayed home Tuesday with an upset tummy, but it settled down some, so after taking the first Nicor picture, I went out and cleaned up the east hive, which had died out over the winter.  Even more nattering ( Read more... )

The gansey socks out of the Knitters Without Borders-colorway yarn don't want to be for me.  They want to be much, much larger.  They want to be Ron's.  Fortunately, he has no objection to purple, white, grey, and pink socks.  (The purple is looking more purple now that I'm knitting it up, and it looks better knitted up than in the ball). I've e- ( Read more... )

Finished the "Clandestine" socks last night.  I'm not entirely enthused with them.  The pattern is nice, the color is nice, but the yarn itself . . . not so much.  It's Knitpicks Stroll sock yarn, and it seems to have gotten much fuzzier than the other socks I did a while back with another couple colors.  Not so great for showing off the lace ( Read more... )

We went to I'd Rather Be Knitting Yarn Studio yesterday, and ended up with both DK and worsted-weight yarn as possibilities for Ron's cowl.  Ron asked me for a cowl sooner rather than thinner, so I went with the worsted - Mountain Colors 3-Ply Wool, nifty autumn-colored "Autumn Trail".

I had a couple false starts, but by last night I was 1-1/2 ( Read more... )

Ron requested a neckwarmer/tube-scarf/cowl to wear for cool-weather motorcycling.  This is an application where lace would be Right Out, or I know what I'd do.  I've poked around on-line to see what's available for patterns, and they seem to boil down to one of two options:

1. Knit wide strip.  Graft ends or work buttonholes in one end and put ( Read more... )

I finished up the kool-aid-colored socks, and since I still had some lunch-time left, I pulled out my navy blue socks to see where I left them ( Read more... )

( Natter natter natter )

The floodplain & stormwater manager's conference that I attend annually is today and tomorrow.  In Tinley Park, so I'm staying in the hotel, even though the beancounters think it's close enough to commute.  I prefer sleep and sanity ( Read more... )

I frogged the damn "Glynis" socks.  Again.  I finally worked through the denial that the yarn and the pattern were going to be friends ( Read more... )

Pictures of socks and the results of the Sock Orgy, plus more knit-natter, over on the picture blog:  http://dracos-otter-pictures.blogspot.com/

Saturday morning, Sprout helped me give both dogs baths.  He's not as much help as Ron, but we got the job done.  Eowyn's control is slipping a little, and we forgot to put her out before running over to ( Read more... )