Alright, so I am a couple of days late with photos… I just kept forgetting! But I’m here now!
The socks knit up really fast. So fast, in fact, that I think that I could have taken on something a little more difficult. However, I finished them. I darned in all of the ends…
… it is quite remarkable actually, just how many ends there are to striped socks. I finished the first sock completely before I left for my spa day with the girls and the second one while I relaxed after my full body scrub (soft as a baby’s bum, I am!). Here are some photos taken in the spa (lighting is bad).
One thing I noticed as I knit away on these socks and watched the olympics out my living room window (well, not really, but you get the point), was that these olympicss really brought Canada together as a country. I even felt the need to catch the final men’s hockey game… it was beyond me to hold myself back! In fact, before we went into the spa, we sat and watched them win GOLD! Oh thank God… remember what happened when the Canucks didn’t win the Cup? ooooohhhh… pain. I digress.
Here’s a photo taken during the closing ceremony to prove that I was indeed wearing them and not knitting them after the cauldron was extinguished. See those cute boots there? I had just gotten the heel re-affixed a couple of weeks before and then on this trip the heel broke on the other shoe! ARG!
Figured it was time to splurge and get myself some John Fluevogs. Oh baby.
I found that they looked pretty darn hot with the socks. As did my husband who at this moment
said that he was trying to work and could I please stop putting my boot up on the table. Hot socks, check. Hot boots to match, check. Shiny gold Knitting Olympics medal, check.
PS: it was both inspiring and exciting to see all of your (Yarn Harlot, Melistress, Bookworm, Wise Hilda, Dances with Wool) blogs and olympic knitting feats, they updates kept me focused and created a true sense of a global knitting matrix… thanks for that!
Forever warped
Wow. I started this simple weaving project because I was craving a little bit of that back and forth sound that comes from the shuttle skimming across the warp strings. I ripped out a circular shawl that I began as a healing shawl when I went to Brazil (it was just ugly. It looked like a doily that used to be on our table when I was a kid… I realize that it might be hard to get away from that with a circular shawl.) Anyway, I ripped out the shawl, and started planning for a nice plain-weave shawl double woven, about 6 feet long and 25″ wide.
Then, halfway through the warping process (I generally alternate the yarn with the apropriate amount of heddles as I warp, which keeps threading easier) I realized that I didn’t have near enough heddles. Not 20 short, but over 100 short. And really I was only going to be using a little over half of the width of the loom! So, I ordered new heddles, which quickly arrived from Shuttleworks in Alberta (I needed them to come ASAP – BC is lacking in heddle stock apparently) Ordered them Thursday before last and they came last Monday. So, slowly, slowly, I have been threading the heddles. It takes forever that way (336 warp threads -why do I love lace yarn so much?) but I am saving my body from the pain I normally have after doing a threading marathon.
I have 6 groups of 60 threads to thread, which means that I am a little over half way through. Here I thought I would whip this shawl off and wear it for the Gathering the Women International Women’s Day Celebration in Victoria tomorrow. Hah. Or, I will maybe be done 3/4 of the threading. Sigh.
I’ll post again when I get to the double weaving. Never tried it, should be an adventure.
Forever warped
Maven