Pattern: Hedera, available free at knitty
Size: Large
Yarn: Rowan 4ply soft, color Honk, (100% merino wool), fingering weight,190 yards/per 50g skein
Needles: Size 2 bamboo DPN
Amount of yarn used: just under 2 skeins
Gauge: 32 st by 48 rows = 4″
Started/Finished: October 2006
Recipient: a 30th birthday gift for a friend
{*socks are modeled by my five year old son}
I made these socks for a friend [...]
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A am not in much of a writing mood right now. It has been a long day, alone with two children that just seem unusually frustrating today. He asked for food every 1/2 hour today. Granted, he was asking for healthy food like fruit smoothies, apples, etc, and he probably is that hungry since he [...]
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Warning: this entry is heavily laden with photos. And only one is knitting-related.
We have a house guest. Thankfully, this one stays outside. We discovered it a few weeks ago, and I somehow let my husband and son convice me that it should be allowed to stay. This spider lives just outside our front door. It [...]
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Today is October 3rd, which means we are three days into Socktoberfest. I have lofty goals for this month, but I have made good progress already. My hope is to knit four pairs of socks, which is all of the sock yarn that I have. I am not allowed to buy more until I use [...]
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Accordion is done. Completely, 100% finished! I finally sat down last night and sewed in the zipper. I decided to do it by hand, since I wasn’t sure how my machine would handle the yarn. It took me a while, because I was doing really small, slow, careful stitches. The result is not bad. There is [...]
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