Can you see the cable? (hint, it runs down the middle) Can you see the "chevrons?" They are the little stripies down the sides. This is the beginning of a sock from IK, Fall 2006 issue called Father and Son Socks. I am doing the father size, although I am going to try to alter it from a 9.5 Mens to a 12 mens - wish me luck. The yarn is a dream - I would write it down if I remembered the brand. Not to worry, however, I purchased enough to also knit myself two pairs of knee socks - if I ever make it through my backlog of projects................ I just hope the person who these socks are for enjoys them. This is my first pair of patterned socks (as in, not plain stockinette), and I am enjoying making them immensely!

Branching Out - From Knitty. I am about halfway done with this one. I am making it out of green, fuzzy, but not overly fuzzy, yarn I found at a thrift store for 50 cents a ball. Yay! Of course, I am about halfway done, and have only finished 1 out of 5 balls. I think I will finish this off, give it to the intended recipient, and then make a 2nd to either give away or wear myself. The Branching Out pattern is super-simple, but looks all sorts of fancy-pants impressive. I like doing it because the even rows are all purl and the odd rows are all similar. There are only 10 rows in the pattern, so really, on 5 rows of lace to do. And the product is great - I mean look at it!

Here we are with the sadness of my life.
This lovely, sparkly, and slightly varigated dark blue and gold is called "galaxy" and is a very soft, but heavy feeling cotton which smells like a nice fabric softener. It was supposed to be made into Knitty's "Convertible" which is a convertible shawl, wrap, shrug, poncho pattern. I got all of this done......and it looks really nice in the lace pattern, if I do say so myself...... and then I realized that I had exactly half of what I needed material-wise. The pattern calls for 2 skiens -2! I had missed that it needed two and thought I was good. And, well, this was the only skien in the color and I bought it something like 2 years ago now. Le sigh. I just had to take a picture before I ripped the entire thing out.

I tried to take the picture about 500 times in the mirror. It didn't work. so, I finally settled on the old-standby of holding the camera out in front of me......... did the trick. This is another one of my "Seaman's Cap"s. I found the pattern online for free- but it was also in the knitting day calender from two years ago. I love this pattern. I made 4 caps so far. One small read one for me, a black and a white for a friend in the extra big size, and a mid-sized one, also featured.