TAKING BACK [THE KNIT]

And this is one of those times. This entry has taken a couple of days. The combination of my super-slow dial-up and having to stop and save my entry every few minutes is slow going. Especially where pictures are involved. A plus: I figured out how to upload my pictures without bs resizing them. sah-weet!

FINISHED! 'Sassy Socks'

yarn: Moda Dea "Sassy Stripes", hence the name. Totally unrelated to the Sassy Stitchess, Kaitlyn. Although I thought of her every time I looked at the word sassy on the label.

Pattern: "Pippi Kneestockings" from Stitch N Bitch.

neddles: US3. bigger than the pattern recommended, but I am a big girl. leg/foot-wise at least.

I love these socks! They turned out so well, especially for a first pair. They are a little bit big, and they don't stay up as well as I like, but I'm still in love with them. The yarn was okay, very acrylic-y, but still soft. The stripes turned out wonderfully, minus and error on my part. But we will get to that part in a second. I love that first picture. It came out so well, just using the self-timer and putting the camera on the ground. Although, the ice chest in the background isn't the best back drop.

In the course of taking pictures of the socks, I realized I intended to wear them for dance and I should take pictures dancing in them. This was the result. Now, while that may look impressive, if you know anything about Highland dancing you could probably nit-pick 4537943 things with it. But I'm stopping before I get started.

For some reason when I joined a new ball right after turning the heel on the first sock, I didn't get it at the right part in the stripe progression. The one on the left is the one with the fuck-up; the one on the right is perfection, so if you look (not-so) closely, you can see there are two sections of the salt-and-pepper bits with a thin black stripe. I couldn't figure out why the colors weren't matching up when I was starting the toe decreases on the second sock, and then realized what I did. I just really shit the bed on that one. I figure it's not like I'm wearing these with any shoes that the foot would show anyway, so it is no big deal. But I felt like a dumbass. I clearly was not thinking.

The top of the knitty surprise tea cosy made me think "nipple!" as soon as I looked at it. I've been thinking about knitting one of my tea-drinking friends a tea cosy but I'm not sure about that one. Maybe I could purposely make it look like a boob. That could be mildly funny. :/

One of my friends requested a sweater [STOKED!] with 3 x's on the chest, as he is straight edge. I'm thinking I'm going to base it off the "Jesse's Flames" sweater in SnBN (with no flames, of course) since those books seem to be the only think I've been knitting from lately. I buy magazines all the time, I have a few books, there are beaucoup magazines and free patterns online, yet I seem to end up knitting out of these books a lot. I guess that's good. I just feel like some new jack knitter who just picked these books up and started knitting. It is kind of weird to think that I was actually knitting before those books came out. Makes me feel good. Like I did it before the trend, and that somehow validates me. I'm weird like that. ANYWAY, I am excited about this. I am not a sweater or scarf wearer, so I would like to knit them for other people more often.

Speaking of knitting for other people, I picked up my mom's afghan again, for the first time since I broke my hand. It's the aran afghan from knitty gritty/diy network (too lazy to find a link). I think I was originally going to finish it in time for her birthday (August 12th!) LAST YEAR, but it ended up being pushed off 'til Christmas, then I broke my hand. Then I thought maybe Mother's Day. Nope. It's like the never-ending project. I've got 4 squares left, and I will be done with this motherfucker! I'm aiming for the end of the month, although setting a goal to be done seems to be my downfall. I've got most of the boring pieces done, so it should be entertaining going from here. BUT here is my real qualm with this pattern: why design an afghan that will be 16 pieces, with only patterns for SEVEN squares?! I mean, at least with 8 you can just repeat everything twice, but now I either get to do everything twice and two squares three times, or to design one my own. That really wouldn't be too hard, but it would be a pain in the ass. I don't want to crunch numbers to find gauge and increases/decreases for something like this. So I'm not sure what I want to do. I am getting bored enough to want to design, though.

In the process of getting started again with this afghan, I started and finished my boobholder adaptation without even a mention of it here. [Maybe I have mentioned it, but not in detail, I don't believe.] I will take pictures once I get the rest of the ends woven in, and I tink the bind-off of one sleeve, as it is too tight. It de-stashed the rest of my red Cotton Ease. I really love that yarn. I still have a little less than a ball of blue left. Ideas?

More pictures next time I post. I have been out of school since Monday {fuuuuuck yeah!} so I have had a lot of time to craft in general, and thus have shit to take pictures of. :)