Finished socks for me.

I made myself a pair of simple knitted socks in Lana Grossa Meilenweit. I love the colors. It made a very happy striped pattern. I've also been working on two squares for a top secret baby blanket. My next project is to teach myself to knit continental style. I hope to be able to improve my row gauge and to knit faster. We'll see.

Beautiful blue and gray socks

I'm so proud of these socks.  I used the basic pattern for 7 stitches per inch socks from the book Getting Started Knitting Socks by Ann Budd. I modified the pattern by taking the ribbing all the way down the leg and the top of the foot. And I used a circular needle instead of dpns. So much easier!

  I need to take a better picture.

Flow top is finished!

Ta da!  The pattern was pretty easy.  I learned a lot more about decreases because I had to make so many.  I modified the pattern slightly be doing a crocheted edge on the arm and neck holes instead of picking up and purling a few rows as the pattern instructs.  I'm so glad I finished it while it is still warm enough out to go sleeveless.

A new afghan

I've decided to make a couple of afghans for my daughters. They are to be in crochet because knitting a blanket would take me the rest of my natural life. I've started the Circles in Squares pattern from Lion Brand for daughter Catherine. It is in Vanna's Choice acrylic. Hey, it's cheap, colorful, relatively soft and can stand up the rough treatment a teenager dishes out.

Almost finished with Flow, First knitted sock complete!

Flow is knitted! I just need to put it together and then do the edging. I hope I get it done while it is still warm enough to wear! I've also finished my first knitted sock. I got about a third of the way down the leg of the second sock and had to rip it out because I kept making lame mistakes. I decided to continue the ribbing down the entire front of the sock. It's pretty cool.

Flow

I've got a really nice drapey pattern for a top called Flow from Berroco. I bought some elann yarn to work it. It's a small gauge yarn knit on size 8 needles. It makes for a slightly sheer fabric. The whole thing is done in stockinette. I'm knitting a gauge swatch now.

Heel

I've been wanting to try to knit socks. So I cast on to some dpns and it was a DISASTER. I had sticks flying everywhere. I decided I would try using a long circular needle (magic loop) and I've been getting the hang of that pretty quickly. I cast on some leftover yarn just to see if I could do it. I really just wanted to try a sample heel. I was able to cast on, knit in a rib stitch, knit stockinette, do a short row heel turn and work the gusset! I did all of that at the same time that I was trying out continental style. My stitches are all different sizes, but I really think that I could get the hang of it. Cool!