On socks and bindoffs and kittens
This blogging once a week thing is sort of lame, but for some reason my knitting has been progressing at a glacial pace. So a quick roundup:
I started another Ironwork Sock, for a gift.
I’m using the Spirit Trail sock yarn that I purchased at MDSW this year. I’m really liking the yarn, although it’s a bit more semi than solid, so it’s probably not the best match for the pattern. I’m pressing on, as I was determined to knit this from stash! I was planning on knitting a billion different sock patterns, but that evil mistress gauge had different plans for me.
I’m actually very happy that I’m knitting another of these because I’ve uncovered a couple of errors in the pattern. Ugh and apologies to all that run into the errors! I’m putting the errata on the pattern page, so you should definitely check it out if you have purchased the pattern. I’m learning a bit about this pattern writing process and I’ll definitely test knit changes I make in future patterns, especially with items as small as socks.
Tangled Yoke is starting to look like a sweater. Since I’m knitting the body top-down, I investigated bind off alternatives to make the bottom edge pretty and stretchy.
I’m a tubular bind off master now, thanks to Silver’s help.
Speaking of cats (do you like that segue?), say farewell to Jet Li!
He found his new home this past weekend! All five kittens have new homes, and I couldn’t be more excited. We thought we’d have Jet and Bruce for much longer – apparently, people aren’t too keen on adopting black kittens. The mobile adoption place seemed like a good idea in theory, but none of the kittens were adopted through it – we lucked out to find friends, friends-of-friends, and neighbors-of-friends-of-friends who adopted all of these guys. We’re going to miss having the kittens around, but I’m happy that we found good long-term homes for them!
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Tubular bindoff RULES. And so does that pretty pretty sock yarn.
I think that the yarn is working very well with your awesomely intricate pattern, and Jet Li has some killer ears!!
Pretty new sock! Don’t worry too much about the pattern errors; you’re still doing better in that regard than a lot of the pros.
very pretty!!! The color is just like mine – barely variegated. I think the pattern still shows up wonderfully….
Hurray for finding homes for all the the kitties.
I don’t know, I rather like the semi-solid effect happening with this yarn….
I am so loving the Ironwork socks, still. Hopefully I’ll get to them… someday…
I really love your Ironwork Socks – what a lovely pattern! I think it looks so pretty in this yarn as well.
Yay! I’m glad the kittens have all found good homes! It’s crazy that people won’t adopt cats because of their color I’ve heard the same thing about black dogs. People are really just not color-blind even when it comes to pets.
beautiful socks! i’m glad the black kitties found good homes. my neighborhood animal shelter won’t let you adopt cats around halloween – especially black ones. they have problems this time of year with cats turning up dead! (people can be so horrible, i swear.)
Woo-woo, tangled yoke and gorgeous socks!
I’m so glad all of teh kittehs have found good homes – but am surprised that its considered difficult to place the black ones.
Personally, ThingTwo and I are offended by that…
Thing Two – http://www.flickr.com/photos/lla/361730160/
That is insane about people being reluctant to adopt black cats. Black cats are gorgeous, and also the friendliest. My love of my life was a black cat. Thank you for taking care of those kittens.
Awesome! I’m glad you made the pattern for those socks. As soon as I have more time to knit, I’m making them!
My first kitty was a rescued black cat, so I’m rather partial to them ;-). He was my inspiration for this:
http://tinyurl.com/3csxp5
Anyway, I’m glad the kittens found good homes.
Hurray for more Ironwork Socks – too many lovely socks, too little time. I will definitely knit these though, they are on the list.
So glad that they kitties have all found happy homes – what do people have against black cats I wonder? I love my black kitty!