{"id":911,"date":"2011-03-14T00:10:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T07:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=911"},"modified":"2011-03-14T00:10:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T07:10:16","slug":"works-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/works-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Work(s) in Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite all evidence to the contrary, I have, actually, been knitting. I even finished a pair of socks. Too bad they do not match, heh. I have been trying to finish the yellow bluebell rib socks, but I left them at my sister’s a couple of weekends ago and just got them back last weekend, so they are still not done. Since I forgot them, I ramped up work on a couple other pairs.<\/p>\n

First up, the Bas-Relief socks from the winter\/spring 2011 Knitscene. Very nice socks –<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>You can probably see that the pattern comes to a point over the instep – that’s my favorite part of the whole thing.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>These are knit in Three Irish Girls Adorn sock (colorway a mystery; misplaced the ball band). I like it a lot. I’ll obviously have to give it the old wash’n’wear test, which other yarns I’ve enjoyed knitting with have failed (like Socks That Rock, my god, that stuff felts if you look at it wrong). Being me, I of course made mods: only one pattern repeat on the leg, and gusset decreases on the sole.<\/p>\n

THEN I actually managed to knit a vanilla sock out of Knitpicks Felici Sport. Incidentally, the sport version of Felici seems more like fingering weight to me, though yes, heavier than the regular Felici. I love stripes. I can’t believe I managed an all stockinette sock.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I love the colorway (Boutique), it’s so cheerful! This one I kind of messed up the heel a little, but I haven’t done a short row heel in a long time. They work better with striped socks, I think. I did cut the yarn at the heel to maintain the stripe sequence on the leg\/foot. Yes, I am that ridiculous. Sometimes I don’t care about the stripes matching, but… mostly I do. Heh.<\/p>\n

Finally, here is the shawl I’m working on – the Bellingrath shawl. It is worked in Madelinetosh Sock in an unpronounceable colorway – Leopeditra or something. Yep, lost the ball band! (I’m noticing a trend.) This shawl is easy, but you have to pay attention – the lace is worked on both right and wrong sides, and when you’re working the wrong side, you have to read\/interpret the chart from the left to right. Argh!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I’m on the last repeat before the edging. Looking forward to the final product!<\/p>\n

I hope I have more time to work on this one this week! Last week I didn’t feel very good and one day had a major nap right after work. I suspect Daylight Savings has messed my internal clock up like whoa because right now it’s midnight and I’m TOTALLY AWAKE, argh argh. Yay work in the morning. A stockinette sock sounds just right, yeah?<\/p>\n

I got some awesome new jewelry supplies this weekend, so there will be some more posts about that too. I’m thinking about if I want to designate days of the week to particular posts here, so we’ll see. And I want to get back into drawing, too! Too many interests, so little time…<\/p>\n