Wow!...where did the time go?...

Okay...It's been way too long since I last posted to this blog...Hang on, Postman's here!

Yea! It's my order from The Loopy Ewe. Give me a sec and I'll take some pics!(I achieved Groupie status, and I want to see what my goodies are!)

WOW! My order consisted of 2 skeins of Cherry Tree Hill Supersock DK in the Fall Foliage colourway. I received all this:

If you want to know the details, you're just going to have to become a Loopy Groupie!

My boyfriend and I went shopping on Friday and we hit up Mrs. Tiggy Winkles to buy some Tinker Toys to make me this:

A homemade swift! I got the idea from Crafting Jen and it works pretty well. Plus its a lot less expensive than a real swift!

The yarn being displayed on my "swift" is this:

Miski by Mirasol. It's 100% baby llama and it is SOOOOOOO soft. The colourway is 101, and although it looks really grey in the pic, it's more blue in reality. I bought it at KnitKnackers.

I am attempting to get my knitting patterns in some semblance of order so I bought this at HomeSense:

I'm afraid I might run out of space soon though, the way I hoard patterns.

Speaking of patterns, I finished the Campanulas:

and I received my prize that I won in the 1st Campanula KAL contest:

A skein of merino from Dyed in the Wool (the colourway is Singed Tomato) and a cool stitch marker:

I'm doing the Stitch Marker Exchange again, and I received my first stitch markers from Yosemite Knitting Addiction:

They have cool little flowers on them!

I also joined the September Sock Club at Robyn's Nest, and received my package:

A skein of Superwash Merino from Lotus Yarns in the exclusive colourway "Time to Go!", along with matching stitch markers and a cool sock pattern.

Alas, on the subject of socks...The Summer of Socks has ended. I managed to finish just 4 pairs in the allotted time. However, the SOS wasn't just to get pairs of socks, it was to minimize my sock yarn stash...

The stash before:

The stash after:



Hmmm...maybe it's a good thing I joined Sockknitter's Anonymous on Ravelry!

...And finally I have a little screen-mate. I've named him Socks.

Here he is checking out all the socks Wendy managed to finish during the SOS (all 19 pairs!):



He's an esheep! Isn't he cute? He keeps me company while I'm on the computer.

TTFN and KEEP KNITTING!

Hello, my name is Joanna...

...and I am an addict. I am totally addicted to knitting socks. So much so that my poor blog gets neglected while I mutter to myself: "I'll just finish this part, then I'll take a pic and post it on my blog". I said this while I worked the toe of my new sock...:

Well, in case you hadn't noticed the pic happened a little bit past the toe.

So, I had a pic of my new SIP (Sock in Progress), but I said to myself..."I'll knit a little more, then take another pic, and I'll post BOTH pics on my blog". Here's the 2nd pic taken four days later:

As you can see I've finished the foot and I'm working the gussets now.

Here's a close up of the pattern:

This pattern is Tiger Eyes from (Yep you guessed it) Socks, Socks, Socks. So sue me I liked a lot of the patterns in this book and now during the SOS 2007, I have a chance to knit them all. The yarn I'm using is Meilenweit Cotton Fondo in colourway #6505. I chose it because of the black and orange stripes (kind of like a tiger, see?). I'm using my standard 2.75mm circulars.

I'm really loving the Meilenweit cotton for the lacy socks. It's soft, the colours are fabulous and it doesn't split very easily, which is especially good for this pattern because it has quite a few K3tog's.

Another thing I'm loving during the SOS 2007 is my slow-cooker. I can still have a nice healthy dinner ready at night, with lots of knitting time in between. Plus it doesn't heat the apartment like the oven does. Quite the neat little invention.

I'll have to work on my knitting while reading technique today, because yesterday I got this:

The last book in the series! Will Harry defeat Voldemort once and for all? Will the end see Harry and Voldemort dead, or just one of them? *Must...keep...from...reading...final...chapter...first....Can't ruin J.K. Rowling's wonderful ability to tell a suspenseful story.* So...I have until 9pm to work on my sock and the book. Why 9pm you may ask? Because that's when Miss Marple is on PBS, and I can't miss a chance to knit along with my favourite sleuth!

TTFN and KEEP KNITTING!