Flat Feet Finished

A while back I got some Flat Feet from my amazing SP Aspiring Crazy Cat Lady and started a pair of Undulating Rib socks with it, promising to chronicle the progress. Well I fell down a bit on that last part, but the socks are now finished!



The yarn to the right is what was left - quite a bit actually. As you can see the Flat Feet didn't knit up all that differently than any "normal" hand dyed yarn. It still has the characteristic spirals, as I said before this is probably because of the way this particular flat was painted. In any case it made a very nice pair of socks!



Pattern: Undulating Rib from Favorite Socks
Yarn: Flat Feet
Started: 3/16/08
Finished: 5/24/08

Noro Socks

Yesterday I enjoyed my last day in Seattle by heading to the U-district for their street fair. I finished the Noro socks while waiting for some bubble tea.



Yarn: Noro Kureyon Sock #40
Started: 5/11/08
Finished: 5/17/08

There was actually a second knot in the yarn on the same sock right before the toe, but thankfully this one kept the color sequence.

Other than the knots I didn't mind knitting with the Kureyon Sock. The yarn is not particularly soft, but the knitted socks feel much softer than the unknitted yarn, and I'm assuming a couple of washes and wearings will soften them up a bit more. I certainly don't think my feet will have a problem with them. The colors, as usual, are gorgeous.

After that I headed out to Ballard with some newly cast on RPMs to meet up with Chelc and watch the 17th May parade (Norwegian Constitution Day). I don't think I've ever actually *watched* it - in the past I was in it. It definitely seems longer, or maybe it is longer since that was a few years ago. In either case it provided some good knitting time.

After a bit of Rock Band I headed back to home base, packed my bags, and flew back to Boston.

I'm back!

I returned to Seattle today after a week out of the loop on Sea Socks '08. Surprisingly I didn't get all that much knitting done. I did a few heels for the classes, a bit of swatching, and worked quite a bit on my plain ol' Noro socks.



As you can see, being totally obsessive about starting the socks at the exact same point in the color sequence didn't really help. The socks were matching up pretty well until the heel when this happened:



Yup, a knot cutting out a good portion of the color sequence - about 3 inches. That and now there are going to be ends woven in on the bottom of my heel.

But there was a lot more than knitting going on this past week! I went to Ketchikan, AK where I saw totem poles (and rainforest, and an orca, and bald eagles...)



I saw (and heard) the Hubbard Glacier:



I went to Juneau, AK and went on zip lines in the rainforest - at this time of year actually more of a snow forest.



And last night I was in Victoria, B.C. and had tea at the Empress Hotel.



I had an awesome time! In fact I'm secretly plotting a way to move to Juneau and work on zip lines - how cool would it be to do that every day?

Socks On Vacation

I figured my vacation to the west coast would be the perfect time to clear out some of those sock WIPs. So far I've finished two pairs, and I'm a little afraid that I didn't bring enough! Thankfully there's a bit of spare yarn as well.

The first pair I finished yesterday was the test knit I was working on for MJ. They're pink and beautiful and I will post again with the pattern info and pictures as soon as it's available.

Then today I finished the Simply Cables socks that I started a while back:



Pattern: Simply Cables from Sockamania
Yarn: BMFA Socks That Rock Lightweight in Blue Brick Wall
Started: 3/7/08
Finished: 5/7/08

It's a pretty and simple cable pattern that adds interest to socks but still works with a more variegated yarn. These are one of the prizes for my contest winner Weezalana. It took me a while, but here they are!



Now back to that knitting thing so I can finish some more socks!