Comfort Sock

Here is where I have gotten too with the latest socks. Sock one is approaching 6 inches. The heel will occur soon. I just have to decide what I am doing for a heel.

The yarn is Comfort Sock by Berroco, 447 yards of acrylic-nylon. It is a 50/50 blend. Ideal for those allergic to wool. The color is exciting 1810. Or as I would put it, green, blue, grey, brown variegated. I prefer color names to numbers.

The needles are Swallow Needles, size 3 or 3.25 mm. These are some of the casein needles made in Australia. So, they were green until they got shipped here.

The pattern is kind of as I go. Right now, it is being tracked on Ravelry, in the project notes.

Lights On

This is a public service announcement. There has been a snow storm in the area this afternoon and evening. During a total of about 24 miles of road, I count 29 cars without their lights on. Three of them were around 7:30 pm. The others were before 6:30 pm. So, please remind your friends to be smart and turn their lights on when using windshield wipers. It is the law in several states.

That ends the public service message. We will return to regular blogging.

Baby Surprise Jacket Number 2

The second baby Surprise Jacket is done now. I didn't start the last skein of Key West Karribean Kotton. My previous estimate of yarn usage seems to be a little off. You may have noticed that I did lots of stripes. I tried to minimize the ends by running the color along the edge. This is noticeable at the front placket on the inside. I think it worked well where the sleeves are sewn to the back.

For finishing, I crocheted the two seams on the outside being careful to keep the white inside the seam when hooking it through. Otherwise, it showed against the blue. After the seams, I did a two stitch I-cord bind-off and continued around the neck.

The review by DH was " that doesn't seem like something for a baby." It took a couple of questions to get further clarification. Turns out the striping is what caused the comment. I thought it was kind of cute but then I am the knitter.

Up next today, is working on adding needles to Ravelry. I think the yarn can wait since I went by a 30% off sale earlier.

Sock Decision

The Comfort Sock in green, blue, and grey tied with the Mountain Colors again on Saturday. I guess I should have checked and made sure there would be an odd number of people without counting me. So, I will start with the socks for Dad using the following logic.
- He has two pairs of hand knit socks that I knit, I have way more. I am not going to count mine because that might be embarrassing. Lets go with more than 10 pairs.
- They make good gifts when I have trouble finding something for him.
- The Yarn Harlot was mentioned knitting makes us more generous Friday night at the Tattered Cover.

After that pair, I plan on doing the Mountain Colors because, um, well, one can never have too many socks.

If you see me looking at sock yarn feel free to remind me I have plenty of sock yarn and hand knit socks.