New Socks - Canal du Midi

My latest pair of socks

They're Canal du Midi socks from Knitting on the Road (Amazon US) Amazon UK Book Depository

They're knit in Zitron Trekking that I got in Woll-Boutique Elflein

when we were in Frankfurt last year. I knit the flap with a slip 1 knit 1 rather than the plain knitted flap the pattern called for, if I was knitting it again I'd change the U shaped heel cup to a more V-shaped one.

Not-too Brainless

I started knitting this thinking it was going to be a pair of socks for me. As I was knitting them the chevrons and the fairly camouflaged colouring suggested that Mac was a better recipient. They're called Brainless yeah, right, mostly okay, but there are aspects that really require a lot of thinking. It also was supposed to stop where the front needle is but he requested more length, and then more, and more, until I could have done twice the number of cables but as I already had finished one sock and he didn't seem to want much more and by the time I realised how much more he wanted I was already done with this pattern.

The yarn is GB Inka 100 which was a bit fuzzier than I expected.

New Year, New Ambitions

I've been a bit behind in updating this blog recently, *sigh*, the damned PC apparently picked up some sort of infection and decided that a go-slow was the only way, then when I changed to Ubuntu there was issues with Firefox, now I'm working with Chromium and things appear to be fine. Some minor tweaks needed and a minor learning curve and hopefully things will continue well.

I have some ambitions for 2011.

1. To publish a pattern, one of my patterns is in the hands of a test knitter.

2. To knit several patterns from my queue, at least 11

3. To knit 11 pairs of socks

4. to knit at least 2 adult garments.

5. to knit more from my stash than I buy (this should be easy, the government has gutted my wages)

6. To finish at least half the works in progress currently on my projects page, either finish or rip.

7. to knit at least one pair of knee socks for me

8. To knit Kilt Hose for Mac

9. To review at least 20 books

10. To knit at least 4 patterns from books I own

11. to keep the Irish Knitters updates going.