After a healthy 17 months on the needles, I finally finished ye olde Berry Nice Socks.
I used Knitpicks Felici in the Mixed Berries colorway on size US 1 DPNs. For my sizing, it was 80 stitches on US 1 needles with a 3×1 rib over the whole thing. Easy peasy but I guess I was bored by them. At any rate, they are finally done!
I like the yarn a lot, so the fact that these took so long is stupid.
Speaking of Felici, I cranked out a quickie stockinette scarf on the knitting machine on Friday.
It’s also out of Felici, and knit at a loose gauge. It’s an experiment that worked out all right, though I’m not in lurve with it or anything. I will have to tighten up the gauge a bit for future experiments.
But all things considered, I made a six foot scarf in a half hour, so whatever. I blocked a little bit and it curls less. I’ll probably block it a bit more another time to see if I can kill the curl some more. Hopefully that will work. I just pinned it this time; I didn’t use the blocking wires.
It’s a good way to use up that self-striping yarn, because despite its flaws, it turned out fine, so more will probably be on the way.
I also finished a scarf I knit the summer of 2004 while I was staying in Leon Springs, TX – house-sitting in BFE, basically. I’ll post pictures of that another time. I found the scarf when I moved again in January, and I finally wove in the ends and blocked it this weekend, so technically speaking it is a 2009 FO. Heh.
Right now I’m working on some socks and also thinking about a sweater with all this dark grey Wool-Ease I got on sale awhile ago. We’ll see. I’d knit the front and then machine knit the rest because I am super lazy and product oriented when it comes to sweaters.
I also got a bee in my bonnet about hats, so next time: a finished Norah Gaughan hat from the latest Vogue Knitting, and maybe, if I crack the whip, a Koolhaas, which is a hat I’ve wanted to make since its debut in the 2007 Interweave Knits holiday issue, and finally found the perfect yarn for it – the blue lagoon Dream in Color Classy I got for my birthday. The Norah hat is also knit with Classy, in Spring Tickle. It’s been a busy week, and I haven’t really been home when there’s been good light, so no pics just yet.