Monthly Archives: February 2005

Here are the Sockapalooza Retro Ribs in progress.  I started one on Saturday and one yesterday.  There hasn’t been any knitting progress yet today but I’m going to work on them more tonight. While I do love my own Retro … Continue reading →

Embarrassingly, I took 4 different pictures of the socks in progress and did not have enough sunlight in any of them!.  So there are no pictures tonight.  Sorry.  Tomorrow during sunlight (in the morning!!!! promise!) I will get some pictures.  … Continue reading →

These are some magazines that I came across at an antique store yesterday.  I was EXCITED!  They were fun to look through and in fairly good shape.  The sock magazine doesn’t have any dates anywhere but I think it is … Continue reading →

Yay!  I finished a couple of things that need to be mailed off to my mom.  I knit her a pair of footies out of Magic Stripes Jellybean color because she really liked the yarn when I was making myself … Continue reading →

By the way, I am still trying to figure out how to size my photos for Typepad.  That is why the kitty pictures are so much larger than the others, but I will figure it out.

I have pictures as promised for two days ago!  But for now, only one is knitting.  Here is Clapotis blocking.  The blocking helped the curling considerably.  And the drying process was actual faster than I’d contemplated.  This was the first … Continue reading →

I didn’t mean to let so many days go by without blogging but I’m back. So as for the Sockapalooza socks, I’ve still got the Uptown Boot socks going in Cherry Tree Hill but I also started another pair of … Continue reading →

I am still working on sock #1 of the pair of Sockapalooza socks.  I really don’t like the sock pattern.  I’m considering switching to the Retro Rib sock pattern but I’m not sure if it would work out with the … Continue reading →

I have a very bad habit (like other knitters, I’m sure) of starting new patterns while I’ve got many on the needles (some with deadlines).  Now having said that . . . I began a new pair of Fingerless Mitts … Continue reading →

This is the first of the pair of Retro Rib socks that I’m working on: and unfortunately this next pic is the best that I could come up with of the stitch detail for it: More to come later, but … Continue reading →