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Marching into Spring

Well, I must say that February blew in and out as quick as I’ve ever seen. I can’t believe it’s March already… Or that I’ve finished another pair of socks!

Monkey Socks - Finished!
Pattern: Monkey from Knitty
Yarn: Shibui Sock in “Anime”
Mods: Only five pattern repeats on the leg.

THEY ARE GREAT. I love the Monkey pattern and will probably make more!

March’s Sock Project sock is Spey Valley from Knitting on the Road. I cast on with Plymouth Happy Feet in a rich plum/mulberry color. No photos yet because I was busy pulling all these ones off my camera.

I was going to write about something else but now I forget.

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Lazy Sunday

Not really – I walked about 3.5 miles this morning with my dad. We went to the Lafayette Reservoir, and then walked around Nut Creek in search of a cake pan and then down to the Target and the Farmer’s Market on Locust. My dad got me coffee at Peet’s and a bagel.

You guys know how much I like Starbucks, so it ALMOST pains me to admit that the coffee at Peet’s is superior… though Starbucks has better “junk” drinks, like the white chocolate mocha. Mmm. Anyway.

Now, though, I have been sitting around winding yarn and watching Court TV*. Yesterday I finished the Kaffe Socks:

Finished Kaffe Socks!

They turned out really great and I’m wearing them right now. I am pretty impressed with myself – I whipped them out really fast.

Some of you have been asking about my Sock Project 2008. Er… I am totally going to frog the January socks because they just weren’t fitting right. But for February I drew Shibui/Monkey – and already finished a Monkey. Last night I cast on for the second one. I will totally admit that it is not with the Shibui I was supposed to be using, but hey.

Sock Project 2008: Where I just knit a lot of socks for myself with no particular rules? And occasionally follow my rules? Sounds good to me. I’m making this up as I go along!

And hey, the January sock yarn was Regia, and I just finished a pair of Regia socks, so I’m sort of half-following the rules.

New yarn:

STR

Socks That Rock in (clockwise from top left): Pirate’s Booty, Oregon Red Clover Honey, Knitty Rocks, and Froggin.

I think I’m going to use the Froggin for the “earth” part of Project Spectrum. Right now it is “fire” and I have some Lorna’s Laces in, I believe, the “Flame” colorway, and I think that would be awesome, but I have to finish the Monkeys first. I think it would be cool to have themed socks for the elements in this version of Project Spectrum.

At Stitches next week I’m going to look for other yarns that will fit the water and air parts of the spectrum.

I feel like Mexican food.

*I don’t care if they call themselves Tru TV, it will always be Court TV to me.

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New Home

So, I’ve moved the website to a new host. It turns out this is painful on many levels – the wallet, the brain, the former registrar, etc. So, ew. Still not quite done, and not quite ready for all this to go public, but I think it will by the end of the month.

I decided to let the posts on the old host die, simply because upon reading through them the other day, there were really only a couple I would want to save – and I like the feeling of starting over with a clean slate! And there’s always the jackassery of the Livejournal, if you are so inclined. My LJ goes back to 2003, I think.

So, anyway, here we are at a new domain, with a version of WordPress that I haven’t broken, and a new webhost that seems to actually function! It is good times abounding, people, good times.

And: an almost completed pair of socks, can you dig it?

Regia Socks Progress

I’m going to kick back with my latest disc from Netflix (Big Love, Season 2, Disc 3) and work on these this weekend. Can’t wait to finish them up! It’s been over a year since I seriously knit on self-striping yarn, and I’d forgotton how darned fast it knits up. I’m very pleased with these; they’re almost an exact match.