Another pair of Father and Son socks

Father and Son socks, IK Fall '06, Knitpicks Essential solid in Ash, a bit less than 2 balls, US 2 dpn's. These will be shipped out to Montana very shortly, where they can be worn year round.

ABC Along? Edit - I Give Up

Edit: No more ABC along. No one seems to be doing it and it's not fun on your own. Oh well.

I've enjoyed looking at other blogger's ABC Alongs last year and hoped to hop on with it this year, but I don't see anything for it. Clue me in if you know where it is. I'll just go it alone for now and hope I don't miss it completely. We'll start off 2007 with "A is for Aulos", my alto, soprano and sopranino recorders (that one's a Yamaha, shh). I miss playing in a group, recorders sound pretty crappy alone. Or, you can read that as I sound pretty crappy playing alone.



Before January is out, "B is for..." will be here, and I'm sure you can guess what it will be. I'm ready for baby to come now! How much longer, baby?!?



The last of the java sleeves are done and blocking, details to come. Started the Father and Son socks a few nights ago, up to the first repeat after the set up rounds. I got a few rounds in while listening to the last chapter of Winter Holiday last evening. We ended it on the last night of my son's winter holiday, I ushered him to the bus stop this morning. The cats are enjoying the peace and quiet. I left them to it this morning as I had the weekly non-stress test at the hospital and picked up a bunch of old Boy's Life magazines from a fellow Freecycler as a surprise for my son.

New Packages and Projects

Just as I was thinking about my Knitpicks order during my son's turn and transactions in a game of Monopoly yesterday (I'm not skilled enough to knit and play but I still think about yarn and knitting more than I should), the postman knocked at the door with my package. Excellent. Yarn and needles for another pair of IK Fall '06 Father and Son socks in Essential, color Ash, and WotA in Snickerdoodle and Chocolate for a pair of Hello Yarn's Squirrel and Oak mittens. I will start on those shortly. On a side note, the squirrel mitten pattern calls for a DK yarn but I get the gauge with worsted on US 3's and want these mittens to have a little more bulk to them as they're going to Montana. I've seen other's squirrel mittens done with WotA as well as Knitpicks Telemark and other DK and finer weight yarns. I may have to fudge the pattern a bit as my row gauge is a tiny bit off but that's just a matter of adding a few rows.


Presently, I have ploughed through three java sleeves in the Racy yarn and I'm pumping out the last three in Elsebeth Lavold's Silky Wool on US 3's with a common stranded pattern seen in places like Hats On! by Charlene Schurch in the Ullared Cap. I am enjoying the Knitpicks dpn's, they are 6" which I find easier to wield than anything longer, they have a nice point, and have a nice heft to them. Not bad at all for the low cost. I've worked with WotA before, not a bad nuts and bolts worsted wool, but I've yet to see how I like the sock yarn.