Ugggh... @_@ Okay, so, my new sock knitting book is awesome because it lets you make custom socks, right? Basically, the author shows you like 8 or something different ways to do the arch expansion (the part between the toe and the leg, or the part where the sock kind of bends like an L so it's not all vertical or whatever) and also provides you ( Read more... )

I finished my dad's sock! YAAAAY! It was a long, arduous journey and weaving in the ends was a pain in the butt and now I'm concerned I weaved an end too close to the bottom of the sock and he's going to feel it when he walks, so I'm hoping he doesn't. A LOT. I can't undo it now so ugh. I guess you live and you learn ( Read more... )

AAAAUGH! My uncle's birthday is today and he's been in Iraq for like a year and he's coming back in November and now I want to make him socks too but I can't keep sticking more pairs in theeere. >.< Okay, okay, okay. I can do it. It's just...Dad's socks have me ~concerned~ because, not only do I have to knit with two yarns (I usually knit with one ( Read more... )

HEY EVERYONE GUESS WHAT MONTH IT IS THAT'S RIGHT IT'S OCTOBER!!! =D ( Read more... )

I'm so sad. Today I was thwarted at almost every attempt to eat food I like. First, the soda machine at the building where my class is was out of service. I ran to the next building over and they only had HEALTH STUFF like juices and power drinks and water. So I ran to the NEXT building after that and THEIR soda machine was ALSO out of service. I ( Read more... )

UGH. Celebrities keep DYING. And they'll keep ON dying but...it feels like before 2008 it was mostly people I didn't know, like people from really old movies from the '50s and '60s. But now it's like...Heath Ledger and Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson and Patrick Swayze (who I just found out was the same age as my dad and it made me even sadder ( Read more... )

I really, really think I'll be done with this pair of socks today! *_* Which means that I will have finished this pair in 1 week too! Does this mean I can safely now say that it takes me 1 week to make a pair of socks? Because that's how long the last 3 pairs I've made took me. I remember when it took me a week to make 1 sock... It's true what they ( Read more... )

MAN. I reaaally wanted to try to finish this pair of socks by tomorrow but I don't know if that's going to happen anymore. I made some weird mistake when I was turning the heel and I had to undo the thing until about halfway through the heel and redo it all over again, so now I'm back at the beginning of turning the heel ( Read more... )

Man, did you know that Jo-Ann Fabrics now sells good sock yarn? Well, *I* didn't. It is a bummer because I already ordered some yarn from KnitPicks.com. On the other hand, this lets me test out their service and their yarn WAS pretty, so that's good too. I'm just saying, I was pretty excited because the one at Jo-Ann's was merino wool too. Jo-Ann's ( Read more... )

1. You gotta keep on trangling, man.
That's right! Basically, you have to keep going because you won't actually see the results unless you do. In order to see the neat pattern on the cover of the book come to life, you have to keep going even if you're not sure if you're doing it right.

2. You have to trust the pattern.Also, you have to trust the ( Read more... )