Friday, March 1, 2013

What's on the needles?

I have been away visiting family and had a great time.  My niece and her family joined us and I got to meet my newest great niece, Julia.  She is almost 2 and so sweet.  Her 5 year old brother, RJ is a great little boy and always very active.

After they left us, they went to Sea World.  We received this photo with the caption "What's wrong with this picture?"


I have been working on this sock while I was away.  I forgot to bring my yarn needle so I could not weave in the thread tail or close the toe.  I will finish it up tonight and cast on the second sock.

The pattern is Faux Cable Rib Socks by Jen Hansen from Knitting like Crazy.  I saw the pattern used in another Friday post a while ago.  It is a very easy pattern and no cable needle is needed-only some knit 2 together and yarn over stitches.

I was using new DPN's that I purchased from KnitPicks.  They are a set of 6" Nickel Plated needles from size 2.00mm to 3.25mm.  I like the smoothness and good points on the needles but I wish they were 7 inches long.  I miss that 1".

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8 comments:

  1. Love your sock. I want to be a sock knitter, but it seems I prefer to knit other things. I'm determined to keep going with learning socks though and I'm working on the Magic Loop way now.

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  2. Love the yarn and your pattern choice is great. Lovely work.

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  3. beautiful yarn and socks I will look for the pattern that's the knind of cable I think I can do

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  4. Love those colors ~ beautiful socks!

    Enjoy your trip & travel safe (actually, sounds like you might be home already....?).


    :)

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  5. Love the sock. Cute family. Some times the big kids just need to cruise. Love the skateboard on the stroller. Whoda' thought???

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  6. The yarn and the pattern are lovely! Thanks for sharing!

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  7. Your yarn color is very pretty and I like the idea of making cables without a cable stitch holder. Sounds like maybe it would be easy enough for me. Thanks for mentioning that.

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  8. It is almost time for me to make another attempt at socks. Soon. ...[sigh]...

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