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I woke up ready to try it again. Like anything was possible again.

Last week was super rough. Seems like there is enough of this feeling going around right now. People seem kind of broken. Maybe it’s the holidays.

Doesn’t it seem like, as an adult, it’s Xmas all the time? Really.

 

In knitting news, I learned a very valuable lesson yesterday. Place your hand firmly over your heart and repeat it with me. Ready?

“I solemnly swear that I will always commit to sewing in my ends as I go.”

Otherwise, you are left with this…

 

Too Many Ends

Too Many Ends

It took me a very very long time to weave all those ends in. The pile in the picture actually shows only about half of all the ends that needed weaving in.

But, now it’s done and on Monkey’s bed and she loves it.

So, that leads right into a contest. I counted all the ends as I wove them in. Can you guess how many there were?

Closest person to the actual number will win this:

 

L & V Yarn

L & V Yarn

 

This is an exclusive Lime & Violet Colorway for the Loopy Ewe and is called “Midnight in the Garden of Loopy”. It’s a nylon/wool blend and has sufficient yardage for a good sized pair of socks.

To enter, leave me a comment with your guess between now and December 13, 2008. I will be drawing the next day and will announce the winner on the blog. Good luck.

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So, the socks in question are not Monkeys. I will be making a new pair of Monkey socks next week for my Monkey sock class ( I think that there are still spots avaliable if you are in the Calgary area). But, I digress. The socks pattern is actually Nutkin. And, I am not sure if I love or hate them.

 

Anniversary-kin

Pattern: Nutkin

Yarn: J. Knits (Happy Anniversary to Ewe)

Needles: US 1.5

Mods: I did my own short row heel and I didn’t do the three needle bind off on the toe.

Notes: There appear to be two different versions of this sock – those that spiral and those that don’t. The reason for the spiraling is how you pick up the fold over cuff. If you jog the picked up stitches by even one stitch, the sock will spiral and you will get a more bias knit. If this doesn’t make sense, please let me know in the comments and I will try to explain in more detail in my next post.

Otherwise, I cast on for my YOL shawl yesterday. I have only had a chance to knit about an inch so far though, so you will have to be patient and wait for some pics.

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I recently read a friend of mine’s blog who made the comment that she sometimes feels as though the words that she writes go into a void and are read by no one. Now, while she appears to prefer the anonymity, I must admit, it rather bums me out. I know, through my stat counter, the aproximate number of people that come to this site, but I don’t know who you are. I will never get to meet you and I will never get to determine what you think of what you read here. The problem? I would really like to get to know all of you. I would like to have you comment and be able to track back through that to your blog or website and find out what you like or dislike and what you are working on at the moment. I would like to be able to leave you a comment so that you know that while you are reading what I have written, I am also interested in what you have to say. Cheesy? Maybe. But, I still want to meet you all, damnit. So, to that end, I say, “delurk, damnit”. And, I challenge you to show yourself. Not only that, but I am going to run a contest to see how many of you I can entice into commenting so that I can “meet” you.

I am going to randomly give away a skein of Sweet Georgia Yarn in a very special colorway to one of you who comments on my blog between now and the next time that I post. I don’t expect many comments, so this may be a particularly easy contest to win. Good luck to all.

In other news, the work on Bunny’s intarsia sweater is almost complete. I am 3/4 of the way through the second sleeve and simply have some finishing after that to make it complete. Since finishing is not my strong suit, I will be taking myself to the LYS to have them sit with me and hold my hand while I finish everything off. I am a bit of a wuss that way and need constant hand holding and validation while I am working on seaming something.

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Also, while I am trying patiently to wait for my Socks That Rock Shipment so that I can start on the first sock of the Rockin’ Sock Club, I recently learned that they have shipped international orders a tad later than the domestic ones and therefore, I will have some waiting to do before I can get the yarn on the needles. So, in the meantime, I started a pair of socks from the new sock book that I bought in the Malamute colorway from Yarn Pirate.

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I can’t say enough about how happy I am with the combination. I love the way that the yarn is striping and yet pooling on the cuff all at the same time. This is my very first sock knit without using the standard vanilla pattern (i.e. Knit toe up in stockinette with a ribbed cuff). And, I am so thrilled with the ribbed cast on that the pattern calls for that I will be using it and the twisted rib stitch pattern again and again I think. This is the first time that I have used this cast on and I love it. However, since I really do admit that I prefer socks made toe up, I think that I will dedicate some time to searching out the cast off version as well. Want a closer look? Of course you do! You can sort of see the ribbed 1×1 cast on if you look closely at the bottom of the sock. And the colors are amazing. I can’t wait to see how the rest of the pattern comes out. This will be my first lace sock (and really my first lace pattern), so if anyone has any helpful hints, please feel free to leave them. I can use all the help I can get!

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