I'm not that fast

When i asked my mom if she'd looked at my blog recently she said "No! Sometimes you don't add anything for weeks!" I had to explain to her that i really do knit everyday....but i don't PRODUCE a new object everyday!! I've been working on the second sock for weeks now! But i will do my best to go faster and post as much as possible so my mom can stop being annoyed with me for taking too long. 

So, dear sweet mother....this is for you:

Oscar night

This is what we were doing while watching the Oscars. I am already more than halfway done with the other sock now and so excited to have a pair soon! It will be the first thing i've knitted and kept for myself! (Of course, i don't think they would FIT anyone else. They're a bit tight on me.) And Maiya is knitting a SWEATER!! She went straight from hats to a sweater and she's almost done. This was the sweater she started before learning hats...the sweater that's taken about a year to get this far....but that's ok! That's a bigger attempt than i dare to make yet....although i'm getting really close to being that confident.

Headband

Pay no mind to the adorable children in this photo. Please ignore the happy faces, the good book reading and the cute pajamas.

Please redirect your focus to THAT GORGEOUS HEADBAND!!!
I totally made that!! I got the pattern from  http://www.cyn.ca/knit/patterns/bamboozled/ .

It was the first thing i tried with cables. I was quite in love with it...i made it for Maiya a few months ago and forgot to take a picture of it to post. 

The Fascine Braid sock...one down!

This is what my sock looked like before lunch today. And before watching a video online about how to do the Kitchener stitch. And yes, i did wear it around the office like this, with the needles still attached. I'm quite proud, you see.

And the bottom 2 pictures are the whole sock finished tonight, after weaving in ends and wearing it around the house, showing it off to Mike and Emmet. 

So now i have to start ANOTHER! Sigh.....i wish the human race was only made with one foot. But on the up-side, it should go MUCH quicker than the first, now that i know what i'm doing!

a sock too beautiful for mortal man...

Is this the most gorgeous unfinished sock you've ever seen?? I think i'm getting the hang of this! I finally figured out the gusset. Then the rest is easy but slow-going in my case. But we're almost there! Almost to the part where it tells me to start the toe..i think i have another inch to go before that happens. I am getting quite excited but i have a nervous little voice inside telling me it doesn't fit. This voice would never have spoken up if i hadn't actually stuck my foot in the sock and seen for myself that it didn't seem to fit. But i will keep telling myself it's because i tried it on with the needles in it. Yeah, that must be it. I'm sure it will fit when the needles come out....right?

My son the entertainer.

A Knitting Standstill

Sigh...there's something wrong with the blanket. I was having so much fun with it, whipping through and loving the way it grows...but then i'd be off by one stitch...and one stitch off would mess up the pattern. So i took out a bunch of rows trying to figure out where the mistake was. I thought i found it, knit up a few rows again but it still was off. So i took out MORE rows, started again, and it was slightly off! Took out more rows again and was very careful to make sure everything was right on the row i ripped down to....counted, double counted, checked everything twice......everything seemed perfect so with a gusto i started up again and BAM! ONE STITCH OFF!!! On row 47! Could it be a mistake in the pattern? I want to work on it so badly, but i'm getting more and more frustrated. 

The sock has been on hold while i worked on the blanket and waited for my sock book to come. Well, the book came and i think i might have figured out what i'm supposed to do. I'm not sure if i'll try it on the sock i've started or if i'll start a new one, a "practice" sock with thicker yarn so that it will finish quickly. 

I've been in a reading mood lately too and it's hard dividing up what little extra time i have between my 2 favorite pastimes. But tonight, i think i'll relax and read...save my knitting frustrations for the weekend.