Christmas '07

Christmas has come and gone. Oh hey look! It's 2008 already! Yeah, probably time to post a Christmas knitting update, eh?

Firstly, remember that big green thing? Yeah, no way that was happening. So I focused myself on two pairs of socks. That's all. I know, I know, kind of a lame year for Christmas knitting. Deal with it. The socks were both made from Knitpicks Bare, Kool-Aid dyed. The first you saw in the previous post. The second was dyed with lots of grape and berry blue. The pink ones went to sister Jill, and the blue/purple to sister Lori. Both were knit using Knitty's universal toe-up formula. They were my first toe-up socks. And let me tell you, I'm in love with toe-up now.




Interestingly, I'd spent weeks hemming and hawing over trying to find a suitable non-wool sock yarn for Lori who is allergic to wool. I even knit a whole sock in Cascade fixation effect (which I do not recommend) and ended up frustrated with the finished product. When Lori got here, I shoved some Knitpicks Bare in her face and said "does it bother you?" Aaaand...it didn't. I could have been knitting her socks with that the whole time. hrmph.



Anyway... They came out great, even though Lori only had a sock and a half on Christmas morning.





In other news. I finally have pictures of my mom with Bristow on! It looks aweosme, long sleeves and all. Mom switched the buttons to some bigger buttons which stay better, and they look really good.




And prehaps most excitingly I'm on Ravelry now!! Yay! The waiting time nearly killed me I was so excited to get on it. I can't stop just playing with things. It's so awesome. :)

I can't figure out how to get the button in my sidebar though. *idiot*

The coming weekend

I'm about to head over to Lynah Rink to get on a bus to head up to Rhode Island and Boston for an intense weekend of hockey with the Cornell Women's Club Team. We're playing four games this weekend (Rhode Island Panthers, U of Rhode Island, Harvard, and MIT). Hopefully I won't die.

But the good news about the trip knit-wise is six hours each way of free time on the bus...for knitting! Granted, I've promised myself I'd also do some homework and nap during this time as well, but I'm actually going to have time where I won't feel guilty for just sitting around knitting!

I've packed the branching out I just started in Rowan kidsilk night in pink. (No, I don't like pink...it's going to be a gift.) And I packed the second sock in the pair that I promised my mother. The first sock was finished this summer, and this poor sock has been sitting around with a measly three rows of a cuff for..well..months.... Damned Second Sock Syndrome. At least it got cast on at all.



Hopefully I won't break any fingers this weekend...I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't at least knit ^_^