little bit of crazy leaking out

Over at Knit Once, Purl Forever October has been declared Socktober!! I am so excited. I have finished two pair of socks so far this month, who knows what I can do with all those wonderful KAL patterns out there this month. Ok, one pair I finished were baby bootees, but I say they count anyway.

added 10/11:
to join Soctoberfest, head over to Lolly’s blog and pick up a button . . . thanks Lolly!

I finally finished the Lacy Hearts this morning. I took them to Knitters’ Night at Village Yarn & Tea last night. I arrived there late as we had dinner my MIL and I couldn’t duck out of that. I had fun, knitted and came home with only one additional skein of yarn, some green Opal. I almost feel asleep while working on them when I got home then finally finished them this morning before daughter’s soccer game.

I wrapped the booties so hubby could take them to work. I have to say I had a bit of a “Martha Moment”. I wrapped them in poka-dot tissue in a pink chinese take-out box with a green and white gingham ribbon tied around it. I wish I had taken a picture . . . very Martha.

After finishing the baby booties I went back to the Lacey Heart socks. I started by ripping out the foot and heel of the first sock directly onto my ball winder. Wow, I wish I had thought of this before, makes it so easy, no tangled yarn, faster than hand winding as you’re ripping. I knit the heel flap in pink and returned to the purple for the gusset and as of this morning I am pretty much in the same place on the foot as before I ripped it out, just with a pink heel.

I finished the baby booties. It feels nice to finish something without haveing to rip it out 3 or 4 times.

pattern: Textured-cuff Booties from “50 Baby Booties To Knit”
yarn: Superwash Cascade 220

I am taking a break from the Lacy Heart socks to knit a pair of baby booties. I need a break from these socks as I am getting a bit frustrated. It’s not the pattern, it’s my yarn, or lack there of. I started knitting the first sock got to the middle of the foot and realized I didn’t have enough yarn.

OK, no problem, I thought, I’ll just rip back and do a contrast heel and toe for the socks, and, hey, while I’m at it I’ll try an afterthought heel, I haven’t done one of those before. So, instead of just ripping back I started the second sock, inserted the scrap yarn for the afterthought heel, knitted the foot, did the contrast round toe . . . and I hate this sock!

I don’t like the afterhought heel, I think it looks strange and it pulls at the corners because I didn’t pick up the stitches correctly. The sock is finished and I am thinking of ripping it back and doing a constasting flap heel and reworking the round toe, I do like the round toe.

So, I am taking a break and knitting a pair of baby booties from “50 Baby Booties To Knit” that I bought a couple of days ago at my LYS. They are the Textured-cuff Booties in bubblegum pink superwash Cascade 220.

The new pattern for SixSox is up this morning. I have already printed it out and been to the yarn shop to purchase yarn to knit it up (see yarn porn above). I will be useing the black Opal and the purple & green (Jungle Stripe) Lorna’s Laces Shephard Sock for the Mosiac Socks.

The orange and green Cascade 220 are to go with some black and purple Cascade 220 I have in my stash, I will be using these to knit up some Halloween, socks for the kiddos, for inspirationSAM over at SocknittersSAM.

I am already on the foot of the first pair of socks for the beginnerSAM. I am useing some leftover Cascade 220 superwash from Basketcase and am knitting up a pair of Lacy Heart Socks from the Hearts & Stripes pattern. I ended up ripping it out twice because the pattern is written for a VERY small foot, something like a childs size 6. I ended up casting on 44sts on size US4 using Cascade 220, perfect for my daughter’s size 1 feet.

Oh, I also bought some Lavender Eucalan, cuz you gotta warsh dem sox.