Melissa posted an end-of-the-month update, and I thought that was an excellent idea. So I stole it. Shamelessly. Thanks, M.
I didn’t really many any knitting resolutions this year, except informally to try to knitdown some of the stash. But I did finish three things this month:
HULA MONKEYS
Pattern: Monkey Socks by Cookie A
Yarn: Some of my carefully hoarded, sadly discontinued Knitpicks Dancing, in the Hula colorway
Needles: US 1 (2.25mm)
Notes: These were actually started in October, left in Melissa’s car on the way home from Rhinebeck, retrieved from her house in November, abandoned in favor of Christmas knitting (and thesis) in December, and finally finished in January. Monkey is becoming one of my go-to sock patterns (easily memorized, doesn’t require my full attention) and Dancing is my favorite sock yarn. It’s not super-soft, but it’s like iron once it’s knit up, and bright happy colors like this one are good to have around you when you hit the post-holiday blahs. Very happy with these. Wore them today, in fact. =)
MAGENTA GEMS SOCKS
Pattern: Thuja, from Knitty Winter 05, by Bobby Ziegler
Yarn: BMFA Socks that Rock in a Rare Gems, bought at the Fold booth at Rhinebeck ’08
Needles: US 1 (2.25mm)
Notes: Love everything about these socks except for how much they bled when I washed them the other day. A nice bath with some vinegar seems to have taken care of that but scrubbing the pink off my tub wasn’t so much fun.
Thuja is my other go-to sock pattern, although I usually cast on 64 to compensate for using fingering (the pattern was written for aran weight). These were my traveling socks in Disney, and they were the perfect airplane knitting.
NORTHERN LIGHTS TAM
I discussed this happy little FO in the last post. Still in love, still plotting mittens.
In addition to all this I have another pair of socks on the needles, Kelly Porpiglia’s Oak Leaf Socks from last fall’s Knotions. I am telling you this because they are a bit more complex than my usual socks and so I am dragging my feet, and now I cannot ignore them since you will all be expecting a progress report. See what I did there, turning you into an surprise Jiminy Cricket?
There’s also a pair of gloves for my mom, a late Christmas present — I gave her the yarn and told her she could decide what became of it, so she picked gloves. Since Mom’s hands are as small as mine they’re going nice and fast. I’m also halfway through the infamous February Lady Sweater, a year behind everyone else, but that’s fine with me. I’m heading up to Vermont this weekend to visit my sister (and perhaps get in a quick visit to Kaleidoscope Yarns…) and I forsee lots of knitting time in the car.
So that was January. Let’s see what the shortest month results in…