FO - Little Sky Sock

Last night we had our first get together for the KAL at my LYS and we all decided that we will do one learning sock per week.

I brought the makings for the ABC stitch markers - got the beads over the weekend and brought enough for everyone - that was a great ice breaker.

We all cast on the Little Sky sock and I got thru the heel turn last night. I finished up the foot this morning when I should have been getting ready for work and now I am going to have to drive like the dickens to be on time this morning.

It's very cute and really illustrates the concept of putting the arch expansion stitches on the front of the foot instead of along the ankle.

Four baby socks done

Hello, I'm Trish, and I have knit my 'try out' baby socks, 2 each of the Little Sky and Little Coriolis patterns. I did one of each sock on DPNs and then one on magic loop single circular needle, so I think I understand the stitch management needed for both of those techniques. I haven't decide which adult sock I will do next--need to finish up some other things first. I am leaning toward the Rushing Rivulets socks on page 91 but the Bartholomew's Tantalizing socks posted here look interesting too.

My Little Sky socks were knit in Crystal Palace Bunny Hop, a microfiber/angora blend, and the Little Coriolis were knit in Berroco's Love It Colors which is a cotton/acrylic/polyester blend. I didn't realize the long color runs on the Love It would lead to such mis-matched mates, but there they are.

Intro

Hi, my name is Barbara and I live in Mesa Az. I saw the New Pathways book the day it arrived in my LYS and the owner and I decided that we would host a KAL in September for knitters who wanted to try out the awesome patterns together. Tonight is our first meeting and I can't wait to get started.

Pictures soon.

Have You Received Your Blogger Invite, Yet?

I am searching for a few knitters who have left comments and want to sign up. Blogger doesn't make it easy to figure out commenters' email addresses without a lot of leg work. I'm not afraid of the leg work, though, I really do try to track you down through your blogs or whatever other info I can glean from Blogger so that I don't have to bother you about this, but I sometimes still come up short. So, if I have you listed below, would you please send me your email? :) You can send it to amanda AT the-woodruffs DOT net.
Thanks so much! p.s. We're at 100+ on Ravelry and over 40 have joined up here. Hooray! :)
--Amanda


Debby of usefulhandsandheart
Trish http://www.randomthreads.com/
Debbie (Sunnyvale CA) http://www.knitwitty55.blogspot.com/
Valerie from TX
BeccaU http://nutmegknitter.blogspot.com/
Mary in VA http://vaknitter.blogspot.com/
Leslie
Beverly who's doing Coriolis in Claudia's
Dierdre http://deerj.blogspot.com/
Missamite

Bartholomew Progress

Hi all! I received my New Pathways for Sock Knitters a little over a week ago and find I cannot put it down. I started a Bartholomew's sock last week when on vacation and was pleased to discover there is a Knit A Long!!! I have finished my first sock and am about 1/3 of the way through the second one. I got a little waylaid around the heel portion of sock #1, but I discovered I had left out the last pattern row before the heel started. Yes, that can cause problems, but I figured it out finally.

The yarn used is some Ashland Bay Colonial Superwash/Nylon fingering weight dyed by myself.

Cheers

Riff on Cedar Architecture

I've been working on a riff on Cedar architecture for the Summer of Socks Design Contest. Here's progress so far, with some back-of-the-envelope scratches. I'm calling them Meadowlands Socks (a little Jersey humor).



Naturally, I've corresponded with Cat Bordhi by email – she's very gracious and encouraging about the adaptation of her ideas. See more on my blog, Jersey Knitter, and on Ravelry.

Little Sky Learning Sock

I decided to take the plunge & knit up Little Sky. I'm using leftover fingering weight to make a mini sock pin. I'm having a hard time with Panel 9. I'll just take a break & start fresh in the morning. I really liked what Cat has to say about sock architecture.