3/15/2005
While packaging the Spearfish Socks to head out on their 1516 mi journey from here to thier new home (yes, that is clue) I realized these are quite the traveling socks. They were inspired by scenery in South Dakota, knit in Colorado and will be living 1500+ mi east and slightly south (yes, another clue) in yet a third state. Too bad I didn’t drive the hour up to Wyoming and do some of the knitting there, LOL!
If you’re curious to see the wrapper I designed a little closer up, click here.
In other news, I’ll be adding another button over in the upper right in the not too distant future. In case you didn’t know, Snow is a big bully. Don’t let her musings on kielbasa toes fool you. She twisted and twisted my arm to join her Blackwater Abbey KAL. It’s an ongoing one with no formal start or finish date, so with the low pressure I decided I could join in. I’m not sure what I’ll be knitting for it yet. It might be socks or it might be one of the totes. We’ll see. I probably won’t have time to get to it for a couple months anyway so I have time to think about it. Give me a holler if you have a suggestion for me… And, join with us yourself why don’t you?
With the Sockapalooza socks complete (well, I gotta make the band this morning and head over to the PO, but for all intents and purposes done) I was able to finally lavish Clapotis with the attention she deserved once again. We watched a lot movies this weekend (none really worth mentioning - yes, that bad) so as of this picture yesterday morning I had 12 stitches dropped, with just one more to go before starting the decrease section according to the pattern. However, I’m only at 44 inches in length and I think it is really too bulky to wear as a scarf and since it’s cotton/rayon had mostly planned on wearing it more as a wrap/stole so I’m continuing on for a bit. I do wish I had weighed it when I have completed the increase section though so I had an idea of how long I can continue lengthening it.
Last night I dropped the 13th and 14th stitch at SnB and hope to drop at least another 2 I think, then I’ll probably need to start the decrease section to be sure I don’t run out of yarn.
My classes start tomorrow, but so far most of the students have gotten into the classrooms without any troubles, so I’m hoping I can do a lot of knitting this week and perhaps get this completed. I think I might need to order some blocking wires though, with the length of this and the lightness of the edges I think it’ll be much easier to block this baby with wires.
Has anyone use a pin to hold their Clapotis around their shoulders? I got a tip at SnB last night from Amanda that there were some nice pins at Target that might go with her and I’m tempted to head over there. Perhaps after I go to the PO…
