Oogyknitter

Hello on this windy Monday!  I hope this finds you safe and well; we're good here! Yesterday afternoon I put the finishing touches on the first sock from the CSM: I'm going to finish the second one in the same way. So, things I like so far - the tubes are wicked fun to crank, and they only take maybe 1/2 hour (unless you drop a stitch, then double that).  You can use all the yarn on the skein, because what I did was just unravel enough to knit the cuff in rib, and the second sock was just a continuation of the tube!  I also like the mix of hand knitting and machine knitting.  And I like using about 20g of leftovers for the heels and toes. What I don't like so far - there are a lot more ends to work in this way.  And - I'm not wild about this first Afterthought Heel - it's a bit short.  I used exactly half of the stitches, but in some cases a deeper heel is called for, especially in shortie socks that have a tendency to slip.  Also - I'm pretty sure thi...

Hello on this cloudy Saturday!  I hope this finds you safe and well; we're good here. I can't believe I haven't posted anything in so long!  It's been busy here, but it's all good.  Let me start with the yarn. At long last, today I'm prepared to start knitting my very first Afterthought Heel: It's been awhile already, but this is one of the socks made from my first tube on the sock knitting machine!  The toe looks a bit more neon in this pic than in real life - it's actually a closer match to the yellow in the sock.  Anyway - I hand-knit the cuffs (just K1P1 rib) and toes (the usual semi-squared version I like), and have cut in for the heel.   Ack - cut you say?  Yes.  Thanks to kirbywirby's YouTube video , I'm off and rolling without a care in the world.  Essentially this version of a heel looks a lot like a semi-squared toe!  I'm not quite sure about the dimensions yet, but I'll use the old try-it-on-as-you-go approach for this fi...

 Hello on Taco* Tuesday!  I hope this finds you safe and well; we're good here. *Yes, finally - tacos on Tuesday once again!  I've learned that you can pretty much put any protein, an interesting sauce, slaw of some sort, and possibly cheese or nuts (depending on the sauce) in a soft taco shell.  It makes for a tasty, if not messy, meal! I continue to work fairly monogamously on knitting projects - either preemie mitts or the NNWA, so no yarn pics to show you just yet.  I will also be dyeing up some sock yarn for a special request.  Oogyhubby's friends' wife (if you can follow that) has asked for socks in pink and purple, and I figured out a way to do this without breaking any of our yarn rules (which I did enough of back in February and haven't even done any of my penance knitting, LOL).  I have some stash sock yarns that will work, so if I crank them as tubes and then dye yarn in pink and purple for heels and toes it should all work!  (Of course...

Hello on another non-taco* Tuesday!  I hope this finds you safe and well; we're good here. *Last week's chicken stew turned out terrific!!!  There was even enough to stow away in the freezer for two more meals!  Tonight I'm making chicken with pea risotto!  I don't have much knitting progress to report at all this week!  I've been hacking away at the Next Nephew Wedding Afghan, preemie mitts, and attempting a full sock on the sock machine.  All are moving forward, but slowly. So in the meantime I thought I'd share a picture of Benson!! This is his attempt to lure me away from my desk in order to play throw/fetch with him.  It probably worked, LOL - who can resist a dog that lets you see the insides of his nose?? In wildlife news - last week we had a bunch of Canadian geese hang out on our lawn and field for the better part of a day.  We were in the middle of a mild thaw, so perhaps they thought we were a pond?  They sure do make a lot of nois...

Hello on Chicken Stew* Tuesday!!  I hope this finds you safe and well!  We're good here. *That's right - no tacos today.  Instead I've got a new chicken recipe in the crockpot, with carrots, potatoes, and peas.   We're going to have a lot of leftovers!!! I fired up the cone winder yesterday: This is the alpaca sock yarn for Oogyhubby's warm sock experiment.  He didn't want the yarn dyed right away.  I'm now in the process of figuring out how to execute a hem and mock rib on the sock machine.  Fortunately there's a great series of videos on YouTube.  How did we ever figure anything out before YouTube??? I don't have much other news to report!  I've been busy working as well as keeping irons in the fire.  I've also been reinstated as a grad student so that I can earn the remaining three credits for my MPH, so that body of work has entered my life as well.  This is all cutting into my yarn time, but it's all good!!

Guess what day it is??????????  I hope this finds you safe and well; we're good here. I had been telling Neuro about the most recent KamaKama preemie mitts and how fun it was to find coordinating colors for their little ties.  I'd just made some cute orangey ones and thought they were smashing. Until Neuro mentioned Inauguration Purple.  Boom!  Her color sense is far superior; check it out: OK, not the best background for these, but the purple is so fabooo!!!  I'm on to the next pair and am thinking they might have to have a purple version as well. I've also had to dip into the Knitting Swear Jar once again, this time for yarn for Oogyhubby.  He asked for warm socks, and so far has rejected some wool ones I had hanging around.  I wanted to switch to alpaca (I do have a speedy machine now!), but I didn't have any appropriate for socks (and expect that 100% alpaca would just dissolve in steel-toed boots!).  I ordered some alpaca with nylon from Knit...

TGIF!!!  I hope this finds you safe and well; we're good here. This has been a very busy week, and I'm looking forward to catching up on a few fun things later today and this weekend.  We also still need to take down our holiday decorations!  That will happen today as well. So evidently I made an inadvertent yarn purchase this month: So yeah.  I thought it would be fun to get a short subscription from KiwiCo.  They have mostly cool STEM stuff for kids and teens, but a lot of their kits are fun for adults too.  Except this one - not so much for me.  I think I could actually two hats faster than I could knit one with these loom thingeys.  I've been super happy with them and this yarn isn't too bad so I'll go ahead and check it out - probably without the loom thingeys though. So here's what I'm going to do - I'm going to take the February hat penalty.  There's a hat on my list that I want to make, and I have some 2020 yarn to make it with. ...