Isn't this hot?

  Another monkey sock by Cookie A. I'm using ShiBui superwash merino in Orchid. guess who its for??? perhaps another loopy groupie? perhaps not....

and isn't it in the hot new colorways for Project Spectrum 3.0. I'm just right in tune.

a little quilting update

This is a quilt I'm working on for a friend. I'm using old clothes and material from clothing she used for her daughter. we also picked out the pink as the background material. I'll keep you posted as I progress. 

and, I'm dead again, or wow, am I a slow knitter or what

  ok, here's a picture of the sock I knitted in the time it took for my assassin to knit me these....
  aren't they beautiful? I wore them this weekend. I love them. How did she know that these are some of my favorite colors? and they fit so well. I just hope my victim likes mine when she gets them. and that my co-assassin and I can knit well in tandem.

My reading challenge for 2008

A Year of Living Dangerously. Time to push outside my comfort zone on reading. What's first? Great Expectations by Dickens. Better get going, I've got a late start.

Woot Woot one more blue item

  I think I predicted more blue items coming off my needles. and I'm meeting that prediction. The right hand mitten. still needs to be felted.
  Pattern: Hand Jive by knitability. Yarn: Farmhouse Yarns.

In other news... I recd an email this weekend informing my of my impending death.... can't wait to see my new socks!

Death by Socks spoiler

  received the pattern yesterday but couldn't start until last night. woot woot. first time in this game that I could sit down and just wip something out in an hour or two. problem? love the pattern and this yarn. kind of cried. and my husband actually said, honey just go buy different yarn tomorrow and start over. hmmm... then I thought... no way, I'm not going down this time. I can get cool yarn any time. Claire, watch out!
  aren't these monkey socks turning out cool? I love these in the zitron trekking... and in my colors too. imagine that...

I love a finished sock

 

even if it is just the first one... and I dug right in and started the second one.

Garter rib. sensational knitted socks by Charlene Schurch

claudia's handpaints in boot camp. (soon to be my one and only sockyarn choice I think...) with contrasting yarn, lorna's laces in charcoal. I had a minor problem going to the lorna's laces that resulted in my favorite word being used once or twice. for the toe on the second sock, switching to wood needles or going down in one size, whichever works best.

best part, fit my husband's foot perfectly. yes.