Holiday Catch-up

I'm home with family for the holidays and have been catching up with some projects.
I knit on with the trekking sock, to find that the 4 stitches really did matter. Rrrrrriiiipppppp. Of course I had knit half the foot! My powers of disillusion are strong! :-)
I'm back to read yet again what I did, this time to check how many stitches to work to (12) in the heel. Yay for blogs and this wonderful way to record what I did!
Hope you and yours have a fantastic holiday time!

you know, i really should read this thing!

Hey!

Yeah, I've been knitting but haven't been so good at the photos. I like posting with photos. The above is some socks that rock mediumweight in "fire on the mountain". It is socks now, toe-up, on sz2. Pic someday. I'm trying out the whole socks toe-up thing using the figure 8 caston. I like that the fiddly part is at the beginning and then it it is smooth sailing the rest of the sock. Especially if it is mainly stockinette. Joy.

Oh, yeah, about the title...So, I like to knit a bunch of different things. The more UFOs, it seems, the better. I'm just now getting to the second sock of the previous post. And, having already turned the heel, I am reading my own words and realizing that I forgot to do the decrease before the heel. (72 to 68). Probably won't make too much of a difference, but argh!!!

That's all from me. Enjoy your fiber!

Perhaps the best sock yet!

Thursday night I finished my first Trekking sock for me. :-)

What I did... I'm writing it down in case I get distracted and don't finish the second one right away.

On sz 1 (2.25mm) needles, cast on 72 stitches. From a previous pair of Trekking socks for DH I knew my gauge. Picot cuff, 7" top, decreased one stitch on each needle (68 sts now), short row heel to 12 stitches in the middle, then 8" foot and star toe.

This sock, as my title suggests, is very comfy. I like it all - the color changes, the lightness of the Trekking, the purpleness of color 109, and best of all, that the yarn is a gift from a knitting friend!

In other knitting, I've started the Adamas shawl from Knitpicks. I'm using their Shadow yarn in Vineyard Heather. It's going okay. I have completed the first chart and have done one of fourteen repeats of the center chart. The pattern is not as easily memorized as the Shetland triangle, at least so far. I'm still early in it. This picture is after finishing the first chart.
Lastly, here is a pic of the finished 2nd shetland triangle.

Not bad for 360 yds of sock yarn! I used sz 9 needles. Please refer to a previous post for yarn details.

Happy fibertime to you....