Not for lack of content

I have been sorely neglecting my blogging duties. In fact, there are a few things I meant to blog about but haven't managed to get around to yet. But since it's now officially summer, I think I shall make a summer resolution to blog more regularly.

But first, let's get caught up!

A few weeks back, I saw that the lovely Sarah of Cephalopod Yarns was offering free yarn in exchange for knitted items to be donated to Afghans for Afghans. This just happened to coincide with the Puget Sound LYS Tour, which meant I needed some simple car knitting. So I grabbed a couple random skeins of worsted weight yarn and cast on for some hats!



Charity Hat #1
Yarn: Lorna's Laces Shepherd Worsted in Purple Club
Started: 5/19/12
Finished: 5/28/12



Charity Hat #2
Yarn: Elann Peruvian Highland Wool in 0790
Started: 5/20/12
Finished: 5/27/12

This year I teamed up with my knitting buddy Monica and we did the full LYS tour, going to each and every one of the 21 stores in just 2 and a little bit days. We hit a few of the most local stores on Friday evening after work, and did the majority on Saturday and Sunday. It was quite a bit of fun, and this year there were even commemorative stitch markers!

Since dashing off a couple of hats, I've finished two pairs of socks! The first are from a skein of self-striping yarn that I dyed in a class by my friend Stephania of Three Fates Yarns



Stripe Class Socks #1
Pattern: my plain ol' socks
Yarn: self-striping BFL High Twist dyed by me!
Started: 3/16/12
Finished: 6/11/12

I've also finished a secret pair of socks which I can't show you, so I'll recycle the picture from my last secret socks.



Instead of dark sock-shaped blobs under the tissue, just imagine that they're more golden in color. ;)

Pattern: "S"
Yarn: MacKintosh Yarns Celtic Sock in Coreopsis
Started: 8/7/11
Finished: 6/14/12

These socks took nearly forever, but they're pretty complicated. I had to figure out the trick to knitting with big charts... audiobooks. Now that I've got a dedicated sock-knitting audiobook to listen to at all times, I hope to get through some of my more complex socks a bit faster.

Well, I think that's enough for today. Stay tuned for more in the upcoming weeks!