little bit of crazy leaking out

The Halloween Socks v2.0 are finally finished and my daughter grabed them and wore them to school today. She declared after I finished the Lacy Heart socks that she really liked the ‘yarn socks’ and wanted me to make more for her.

pattern: Knitting Pure & Simple Basic Children’s Socks, with french heel, stripes inspired by the beginnerSAM pattern
yarn: Cascade 220
needles: US4 Takumi Bamboo
started: 10/11
completed: 10/19

This is pair 3 for Socktoberfest! (4 if you count the booties)

I decided to exchange the yarn for daughter’s sweater. So, back down to Seattle I went. I entered the shop with the intention of only exchanging the yarn and looking at maybe picking up some US13 straight needles, that was it. Well, hmmm, so much for good intentions. I went straight to the yarn for daughter’s sweater and picked up some bright pink Blizzard then headed to the straight needles and picked up the Brittanys.

While heading to the register I saw the Silky Wool, in a beautiful dark purple, it jumped into my basket of its own accord, I had nothing to do with it.

As I was passing some Dalegarn Falk in a nice medium gray-blue,I started thinking about the holidays and how I wanted to make some socks for my dad. It came home with me too.

In my defense I do have to add that I resisted some Lorna’s Laces shepherd Sock in Black Pearl (beautiful purple/grey/black) . . . it went in and out of my basket several times before finally staying on the shelf.

So a quick run to the yarn shop that should have cost less than $15 ended up costing quite a bit more . . . sigh. But, on the other hand I have the yarn for daughter’s sweater, and for dad’s socks, and I may actually make Branching Out before the end of the year.

My dear friend J. asked me earlier in the week if I thought I could divest myself of the kiddos at some point in the near future as she needed to go yarn shopping and thought it would be fun if we could go together. So, yesterday after my daughter’s soccer game, I ran away.

I needed to make a few stops before I got there. I stopped at the drugstore and picked up a new can opener, my son disassembled my current one and I have been unable to put it back together. While I was at there I wandered over to the magazines and found the new Knit It! and Family Circle Easy Knitting Holiday issue. They both have some great patterns, especially with the Holidays coming up. Then I went to JoAnn to return some yarn I had buyers remorse about.

After picking up J., and giving her a copy of the new Knit It!, for which she jumped up and down and clapped her hands while squealing, we headed out to Acorn Street for stash enhancement.

I was looking for yarn for a specific project for my daughter, needed to be a wool blend in a girly color that would knit up to 2.5 sts=1″. I found some beautiful soft pink GGH Aspen, it is a 50/50 blend of merino and acrylic, very soft, and lists as 10sts=10cm. Needless to say I bought it. J. did some holiday stash enhancement.

After said SE we were weary with hunger so headed over to Top Pot Doughnuts for fortification and to browse thru our knitting magazines.

Last night while watching SG1: season 8 from Netflix, I proceeded to cast on a sleeve with my new acquisition . . . size US13 needles, cast on 22 and knit . . . hmmmm . . . this is to gauge but the fabric is really loose . . . ok, rip out . . . size US11 needles, cast on 22 and knit . . . hmmm . . . nice fabric but gauge is off . . . shoot . . . darn . . . now what? I can monkey with the pattern and knit it at 3sts=1″ or I can return the skeins I haven’t used and get something else . . . darn it!

I found this site while surfing. It’s cool. I signed up and will pick up some postcards tomorrow to send out. I think the kids will get a kick out of it and we’ll put up a map so they can see where the postcards are from.

www.postcrossing.com

Halloween socks for my 5yo daughter . . . and a cat nose. My hubby didn’t like them at first but now that I am past the heel he says he likes them now. I am using Cascade 220 in orange, purple and green. This is my first time doing stripes, other than self striping yarn, and I love it!

I finished my son’s Halloween socks. The Pink Heart socks from the beginnerSAM were my inspiration for these socks but I used the Knitting Pure & Simple kids sock patterns to knit them up. I used the medium size at 36sts but next time I would knit them between the medium and large . . . at 40sts. I used Cascade 220 in black for the 2×2 rib, french heel and toe, and orange for the body of the sock. The orange is more of a heathered pumpkin than I could show in the pictures . . . I tried all over to get get a good color, but to no avail. I also tried to get a picture of them on my 3yo, but the pics were just a blur.

Now on to my daughter’s Halloween socks.

One down one to go.