Blocking fixes everything

I found my sock blockers! What would have been great is if I found them BEFORE I ordered another set from The Loopy Ewe! Grrr! I have been known to leaving knitting items in strange places but don't ask why the sock blockers where in a drawer of CD's.

Now you can see the wonders of blocking! If you remember, the pictures from yesterdays post showed the socks in a crumpled pre-blocked mess. Here's the finished product! (the color is most accurate in the whiter shots, had to mess with the flash to show off the pattern well since I didn't want to wait for daylight to take pictures.

It's my fault Northern Virginia

Ok, I will take the fall....

... if you look closely, you will see the snow even warrants dog sweater vests...



Just the other day I was commenting on Melissa's pictures of all the snow she received and how we hardly see any and I don't miss is. Then I wake up to this! Coming from Michigan I remember snow well but do not miss it. The best part is that Joel had this in his email at work "Please don't forget to take your laptops home tonight as the office may be closed in the morning as we are expecting 1-3 inches of snow."

I finished Nana's socks. Unfortunately, the pictures are completely awful as I can't find my small sock blockers! I am still turning the house upside down and will take pictures of the finished product once I find them.

Pattern: Lace and Lattice Socks
Yarn: Malabrigo Sock
Started: January 23, 2009
Finished (ok, but unblocked): January 27, 2009

I'm still not sure how I feel about the Malabrigo sock yarn. It seems a little thinner than what I would normally use but I am curious to see how they block out. Gosh, I need to find those blockers!

...Is this thing on?

OK, so it's been awhile. I got away from blogging as my life was getting too nuts with school and work. While I am still in school I am only working on my internship so have found some more free time on my hands. While I wasn't blogging from September 19th on, I still found time to knit. Here are some things you missed...

...just looked in my ravelry queue and there are 17 items that have been completed since I last was on....I don't want to scare everyone away so I will only include the most recent additions of the 17. Know that the rest can be seen on ravelry.

I just finished Lucille


I saw this sample at Stitches and fell in love. I was completely blown away by the vintage look that I bought handwash yarn! Obviously, this baby sweater will have to be saved for a knitter who will treat it well. For now, it will go in my stash of baby knits (ok, not many, this is only sweater two stashed away) for someone who needs it.

I also finished Joel's, slightly obnoxious, inauguration day socks!

He still doesn't have a pair that fit perfectly so I wanted to do insanely boring stockinette ones to get the fit just right.

Last bit of knitting news. Liz told the knitting girls about a self developed sock club. The idea is that you match 12 sock yarns with 12 patterns and then at random each month you draw a match. I love it! Talk about a cost effective way to join a 'club' and also a great way to use up some stash yarn. I spent the day matching up patterns with yarns. Here's the 12 I chose! The chaos will officially begin February 1st!
While hand knit socks are great, I don't need to be greedy and keep all 12 pairs....send me your size and you just may find a random gift in the mail.

Happy knitting!!