Socktober?

Socktober?

Happy Halloween, friends! I finished a pair of socks that I started in, ahem, July. Thanks, Ravelry for keeping me accountable! A few years back people focused on knitting a pair in socks and called it Socktober. It seems lately Socktober has come to mean donating...

Goodbye, Socktober

I finished the Monkeys I’ve been working on out of the Republic of Wool yarn in Artificial Light. I did these toe up and did a heel flap. You can see the crazy way the striping happened on the heel here: I finished these a couple of days ago and I’ve been...

Eight years

I just remembered today is my 8th blogiversary. I’ve been knitting for a little over 10 years, and I guess I’ve been talking about it online for almost as long. As an extrovert, I love finding ways to communicate with others, especially about one of my...

October is for socks

It’s Socktober again. Yesterday, as soon as I cast off the Simple Skyp Socks I immediately wound the Rebublic of Wool yarn I got in the mail last Friday and started some toes! I’m making Monkeys, though I’m going toe-up and doing them both at once....

Skyping into Socktober and a sock sale

I finished up the Simple Skyp Socks I’ve had on the needles since mid July.  About time, huh?  They took a backseat to many other projects in the last few months. The yarn is Manos del Uruguay Alegría in color A8855. I love how looks knitted. I did these toe up...