Lenore is a bit shy about being photographed. She won't let the richness of her true colors show through (well, at least not with my sad little picture taking set-up... maybe I'll try making one of those photobox thinga-mijigas).





As I was telling Cordelia at knitting on Thursday (in which we got to hang out right next to the fire at Panera and it was toasty warm!), this is perhaps the best fitting sock that I've ever knit. Especially after the Snicket tragedy of too tightness. I hope to have Lenore finished in the next couple of days. Then I plan to revisit the Snicket.

Why?


Because she's done! I actually finished her Sunday evening (weaving in ends and all!) But I didn't get any pictures until yesterday, and I have a few minutes this morning (thanks to my plan to show a video in class this morning, I don't need to spend this time prepping my lecture).





The pattern was super easy and super fast. If I didn't have other things calling my name, I'd knit another pair!


Did you see this ad?





I saw it in Prevention magazine and just had to share. Don't think of your knitting as barbed-wire take our product and your knitting is knitting again!


Lastly, in non-knitting stuff... I need some hair advice. Now that the wedding is over, I don't need to keep letting my hair grow. So I want to cut it (I think), but I'm not sure what kind of cut I want. I was thinking of the Victoria Beckham cut (not to be trendy, I swear!), but I'm not sure. Bloggie friends, do you have any suggestions!?

Fetish Knitwear
(warning NSFW... especially this one)

I don't know what it is about today, but I am more tired than usual. I'm tired most days, but I nearly put myself to sleep this morning with my lectures. And I've got another lecture in about 30 minutes. I drank some Coke and ate some lunch, but still so sleepy. I'm tempted to find a Red Bull somewhere, but worried that will make me much to hyper for class. In the past drinking Red Bull, or once eating a lot of candy, before class, puts me on overdrive and I talk faster than the students can probably comprehend.

I have been knitting, but have failed in taking pictures of it. I have completed one of the Little Gems Mitts from the '07 Interweave Knits Holiday. Here's the pattern pic (borrowed from Interweave's website)





I used stash yarn (yay!). The base color is leftover from my "Son of a Stitch and Bitch" project (Dale Baby Ull in Dark Gray) and rainbow colors are leftover from when I made the Pippi Kneestockings (Brown Sheep Nature Spun Sport) soooo long ago. The weights of the two yarns are a bit different, but it seems to be knitting up fine on the size 1.5mm needles I'm using. I changed the pattern a bit to fit my hand better, and finally realized that instead of making notes on little scraps of paper about my changes, I should just write it directly in the magazine on the pattern. If I ever make the pattern again, I'll want to know those notes. It is silly, but it seemed like a revelation to me.


Ok, I should head over to class, hopefully I won't fall asleep in the middle of my own lecture!

I've been on some other knitting planet such that I missed posting this on the actual publication date. Heck, I didn't even realize the book was out until I saw it on Ravelry. But "Son of a Stitch n Bitch" is out now, and I can realize my pattern (ok, those of you long time and eagle-eyed readers will probably think these look familiar).

I originally made these socks for Kevin after we got engaged last year. Debbie Stoller liked the pattern and said it reminded her of tire tracks, and thus Treads the pattern was born. I've had this picture from the book for months and months and have been dying to share it. And boy am I glad I have it because I seem to have lost the original pictures I took of them before sending them off to Debbie.


I also very excitedly posted the pattern to Ravelry last night (which of course I somehow screwed up and posted 3 times, I think I broke Ravelry and I can't fix it). I alerted one of the volunteer editors, who will hopefully help get it solved.

So, I worked from home today. I graded a bunch of students' papers and then suddenly got inspired to make a photo-box-thinga-majig. I followed directions from Lolly's blog and cut-up a box and taped on some tissue paper. I haven't gotten too fancy or taken too many pictures, but it was certainly simple enough (and a good way to avoid the rest of the papers I have to grade).


Here is the first Gems Mitt from the Interweave Holiday (2007) issue:

The ends were a pain to deal with and that's kept me from starting the next one. And so has this...








Remember the poor, little too tight Snicket sock. Well, it has been redone into the Ravenish sock. I basically just repeated the Raven cuff pattern from the latest RSC installment. I added the ribbing on the bottom of the foot because it would have been a little loose otherwise.

I also started on this...




This is the Naughty/Nice scarf from Son of Stitch n Bitch. And finally... I got a great little birthday gift in the mail from Kevin's parents and sister...




Bo Peep's Sock Yarn by Farmhouse Yarns in the colorway Storm. It is 75% merino and 25% nylon. I can't wait to finish up those Ravenishes and cast on for some Stormy socks!!