Scribbles & Bits

Clickable Pictures as Promised

The completed Child's First Socks from Knitting Vintage Socks!  The yarn is Yarn Pirate's in the sweetheart color way (beautiful, soft yarn, as always).  The first picture shows them together and shows the very matchiness of them!  I wouldn't have been able to accomplish that if I'd actually been trying.  The photo on the right is a close-up of the pattern.  As mentioned before, I went up one needle size because I just needed them to be a smidge bigger and that worked fine. 

The socks really broke through my knitting block and so I've started Ariel (the mermaid gloves with a twist).  That is Yarn Pirate's mermaid color way, one of the first ones I ever bought!  I tend to be very picky about which projects I use her yarns on, but when I do find the right project....  I'm knitting these on size 2 as well since I tried the leg of the sock on my arm and found it to be a pretty ideal fit.  I think these will move pretty fast because, wonder of wonders, I actually have the pattern memorized now!  Woohoo!  Now I really can just take it with me everywhere and whip it out in lines!  It takes very little to amuse me, doesn't it? 

Finished but Unphotographed

I didn't have a chance to take a picture of my socks mated at last.  Maybe tonight!  Anyway, they are perfectly lovely and pretty matchy and overall fantastic!  They really broke through my knitter's block, too.  I've already cast on for my Mermaid Gloves with a Twist.  Actually, from here on out, I'm calling them Ariel gloves.  Yes, like The Little Mermaid.  See, since I'm completely incompetent when it comes to knitting the gloves with the pomatomos pattern, I'm making them human for me and using the shell pattern from these socks like I talked about.  So yes, now that I've established that....

Of course completely pictureless posts make me a sad panda, so I thought I'd throw this in:

You can hover over the different blocks to find out what they mean. It was a fun way to pass a few minutes!  Would you also like to pass a few minutes?  Click here.  Thanks Chef Messy for finding this one! 

And then also, just for fun, Scattergories stolen from Bag n' Trash:Home of Monster Yarn!

The game is SCATTERGORIES, and it’s harder than it looks! Here are the rules: Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following. They MUST be real places, names, things…NOTHING made up! If you can’t think of anything, skip it. Try to use different answers if the person before you had the same 1st initial. You CAN’T use your name for the boy/girl name question. Have fun!

Your Name: Virginia

1. Famous Singer/Band: The Verve

2. 4 letter word: Vile

3. Street: Vine

4. Color: Violet

5. Gifts/Presents: Videos

6. Vehicle: Van

7. Things in a Souvenir Shop: Velvet paintings of Elvis

8. Boy Name: Virgil

9. Girl Name: Vivian

10. Movie Title: V for Vendetta

11. Drink: Vodka

12. Occupation: Voice Over Actor

13. Celebrity: Victor Mature

14. Magazine: Vogue

15. U.S. City: Verona, New York

16. Pro Sports Teams: Venezuela Soccer Team (hey, nobody said that one had to be U.S.-related and I happen to LOVE soccer!)

17. Reason for Being Late for Work: Very Tired

18. Something You Throw Away: Virus-infected floppy disks

19. Things You Shout: Vintage car!  (seriously!)

20. Cartoon Character: Veronica (from Archie)

Hopefully tomorrow there will be knitting pictures! 

What Would You Do?*

What do you do when your knitting mojo is off but you're surrounded by waiting room opportunities?  Ignore that missing mojo and knit a sock anyway!  The picture on the left is the completed first sock and the picture on the right is a close up of the pattern.  It's the "Child's First Sock" from Knitting Vintage Socks.  I'm using Yarn Pirate's "Sweetheart" colorway.  The pattern size wasn't quite right for me, so I used size 2 needles instead of the rec. size 1s.  I know that's not the right way to size up a pattern, but I thought, what with the bad mojo and all, maybe I just ought to go the quickest way and not try any brand new knitty math.  I acknowledge that the pattern doesn't look quite like it should once it's on my foot, but you know what?  This first sock is way comfortable so I'm happy.  I'll start the second one tonight. 

Also, I think I may have figured out the whole mermaid gloves thing.  I want those gloves, but I can't get the hang of the pattern.  This looks a bit like the pomatomous pattern (close enough to suit me, at any rate) so I'm going to use this!  Problem solved! 

*with apologies to Cabaret