My most recent load of laundry was blues and greens. I'm not sure how that brown one ended up with these others.
When my husband sees this photo he'll probably start shaking his head at all.that.yarn. Remember, my mom and Melissa gave me some of it! And most people have way more. I can show you pictures. Scary pictures. Anyway, I've stalled on working with the STR cake in the bottom right. I'm thinking of giving Monkey a go. It's in Broadripple right now and it's OK. If Monkey's no good I'll probably go back to that. The Regia Silk may someday be Bayerische. The tanzanite STR on the left may become Leyburn socks. I'd also like to make Anastasia socks, Embossed Leaves, Retro Ribs, and I'm sure some others I've forgotten about. So, I hope that helps my sock pal out some.I have a pattern idea for my sockapalooza match: the scales skin socks, aka snake skin socks (photo 1, photo2). I like that this pattern isn't too popular out in blogland, and I can find no evidence on my pal's blog that she's made it or even heard of it. I can see she has read Harry Potter, so I think it would be cute to make these and rename them for one of the dragons. Sound like a decent idea? I just don't know how they'll knit up--stretchy? always falling down?--so I may do some swatching before I decide.
8 comments:
This is very helpful ... I'll be thinking about what to knit for you!!
Hmmm, I have a new gmail account to email you with ... it should say "Knitopia Pal" but for some reason, it cuts off ... I'm not trying to steal your identity, I promise!
-Knitopia Pal
Sockapalooza 4
How funny! I was a little confused at first, but then I realized that there's no limit to how many commenters named Jane or Kate there can be.
I'm glad my post helped you out some. I wanted to give my pal lots of color and pattern freedom to be "easy," but then I got the same kind of person and it took me a while to come up with an idea. Last time I knit socks for a pal, the color choice (pink) was obvious, and when I was a sock savior I used yarn donated by someone else, so I had never had to come up with the whole shebang myself before.
--Blog owner Knitopia
Oh, I see. You're too busy to write to your MOTHER, but you have time to BLOG. It's okay, really. Don't worry about me. I'll just sit here waiting, hoping that someday you'll have time for me . . .
Snif.
I followed the Bayerische link--boy, Eunny designs and knits some amazing things. I wonder what she does for a living?
Eep!
Eunny was just named editor of Interweave Knits. She telecommutes.
Wow. It's nice to know someone, sometimes, gets what they deserve.
I did notice that in addition to being a fabulous designer and knitter, she writes extremely well. Of course, most of the knit blogs I've read are much better than random blogs. It's such a pleasure to read good writing (and so painful to read the other kind . . .).
Melissa has way, way more yarn than you.
Oh, I know she does! I have more sock yarn than the photo shows, mostly because some take 2 balls to make a pair, but also because I didn't feel the need to show some of the boring solid colors I have. I also have some non-sock yarn. But, yes, I created a monster when I taught Melissa how to knit.
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