Sunday, November 13, 2011

Doing...doing...

DONE! 




YAY ME! 

YAY Carol Young

Thank you ever so much for your sweet words, encouragement and for enabling me to do this!

My first pair of “stranded-knitting” socks ever….

I feel so clever…LOL



you can find this sock-project and many others here:
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/knitchickmelly
TOXIC update:

Nearly finished with the foot-chart-repeat of the second sock..
going to bed now …
will do the rest (about 7 rows of foot and then the toe) when I get up again.

I love these socks!

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Withdrawel...

I couldn’t knit for 3 days …for several, not to be mentioend here, reasons.
At last I got really cranky and sat myself down today to knit,
feeling better by the minute ... I guess I am really into all this colour-work-mess ;-)

And I am happy now - especially because the first sock is finished.



I really enjoyed the “cut-and-paste”-part for the toe in the pattern.
That was fun and the "child-inside" enjoyed it very much :-D

I only needed one pattern-repeat for the foot (after the gussett) … I made the “flaming toes”



…wonderful result, wonderful fit. Look:







Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Sunday, November 06, 2011

That's it!


Both heels done…very nice …
it's late and I am not very chatty today ... sooo tired out!



tomorrow: gusset and foot …
still fun and I am surprised how well this is going.

And I am in love with colour-work

- hare-brained me is queuing fairisle-stuff like a crazy -

just as I thought this really helps me get over my “stranded-fear” ;-)

Friday, November 04, 2011

H.E.E.L.

First heel done … 

I realized that my row-gauge is totally off :-( … 
but the stitch gauge is completely alright….well then, doesn’t matter (I hope).
The heel looks weird to me - more like an Ogre-Heel - but fits perfectly.

Thursday, November 03, 2011

I have totally....

... caught up now…lol…

I have finished the leg-part of both socks and I am very happy.

-Nothing nicer than a smiling knitter, isn't there?-

I noticed that my knitting-tension is different every day
- which is not as recognizable while knitting one-colour-socks or other knits -
some would say now: "oh you don't say..",

but for me it is a new experience...
being an even and "not-too-tight-but-just-right" knitter until now...
but with colour-work everything is different for me and I am learning a lot :-D

So, I had to adjust quite a few times to get the tension of the second sock  *
- which I had been working on to check if I could get looser gauge and strand -
close to the tension of the first aka second sock ...

not so easy, but managable.
And once again I noticed I am a sucker for challenges ...


LIVE and KNIT without FEAR! ;-P


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*remember? I did the first sock and tension was too tight,
so I started the second sock and swapped the numbers).

Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Now who ..

 ... put the U in Fun? I don't know, but it doesn't matter anyway, or does it?


Today I put  the first sock aside
and got out my 2,5 mm DPNs ...
- I love my DPNs ... I tried magic-loop, but it just slows me down to snail-speed-knitting -
 soo I continued the second sock on my MAGIC-DPNS
- they give me speed and confidence and the feeling of being "OH SO INTELLIGENT"
because I am able to juggle 5 pointy-sticks at once .. and now what is wrong with that?*giggles*


At 3 pm I caught up with the first sock  (left one on pic is 2nd sock and right is 1rst sock) ..



I think it looks better and it feels better too….I am slowly getting used to the stuff and I am glad …
in fact I am loving it!!! It’s so much fun!

9 pm: leg-part of second sock is finished…



I think I am going to frog sock one tomorrow and reknit it

On a side-note: These socks are supposed to be mine,
but Elena (my middle daughter) is starting to “claim” them ;-) ..
NO! I can't let that happen!!!