Things I’ve Got
I’ve got a brand new yarn bowl! (This line can be sung to the melody of “I’ve got a golden ticket!” from the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie, and it can make you very happy. However, I don’t recommend singing this in front of a non-knitter spouse.)
I bought this from the Knit Witch. I got the idea from Cristi, who is constantly flaunting her yarn bowls on her blog, Turtlegirl’s Bloggy Thing. When I started knitting with the giant ball of Corvid BFL Sport, I knew I needed some yarn management, and this yarn bowl works wonderfully! I am so pleased I used a little Christmas money to buy it. It’s a beautiful blue inside!
And speaking of Cristi influences, she knits gorgeous socks, especially with Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks That Rock sock yarn. So naturally I had to get some. And now I’ve got my first pair of 2010 socks.
That’s Mediumweight STR in Faulty Dyer, which is a quirky but happy colorway. There’s an odd bit of green, but I love the warm yellow and the coral with the dark burgundy. I made this “pattern” up at 56-st for the leg and 52 for the foot on US 2 needles. It’s a simple P2,K2,P1,K2 rib and an Eye of Partridge heel flap.
2009 was not a banner sock year. I knit only 5 pairs last year for myself, and I had 3 old pairs bite the dust. AND my wonderful Gothic Rose Embossed Leaves got a big HOLE in the cuff the first time I put them on to actually wear (I have to fix this, but we’ll discuss that another time). So in 2009 I gained one pair of socks. I’ve had to buy socks at Target. The shame! Plus I don’t like them very much.
This year, I want a new pair each month! I have three singles, so my plan is to start with those. As soon as I get the month’s sock done, I can knit on whatever other socks I want for the rest of that month. I hope then each month, I only have a single sock that has to get knit to get a new pair. We’ll see how it goes, but February is off to a good start, because I’ve got half the cuff done on the second Retro Rib Sock in Knit Picks Essential Tweed in Oxblood blue.
Knit on!
I think this is a great goal for the year. I understand your sock predicament, as some of my socks are showing wear now. That tweedy yarn looks great in socks!
What a pretty yarn bowl!
That bowl is very cool! Alas, Mayhem would treat it as a yarn snack bowl…
Your STR socks are great! I’m impressed at the absolutely minimum amount of pooling you had.
Yay for socks! I love the bowl you picked out too. So pretty!
Cool bowl! That wouldn’t work in our house with the little one pulling things off tables and such. Maybe when she gets a little older?
I love the socks! The first pair is unique fun color combo and the second pair look very tweedy and warm.
Love the bowl! Fun. . . functional. . . perfect! Great socks, too!
That bowl has turned my head!! Oh I totally know what I’m asking for this year for my birthday.
LOOOVE the socks! A new pair each month is do-able, right? I always thought so but never accomplished it, so: Go, Brenda, Go!
Excellent goal!!! I said I wasn’t going to knit as many this year, and I’m already on the second pair…they’re so darned easy to carry along and knit on wherever!
I LOVE your bowl, it’s beautiful!!
. . . and now? I think I need one.
Thanks for the enabling!
(((hugs)))
I took a ceramics class years ago at the local community college. I should take it again just so I can make a bunch of these yarn bowls. How lovely is that green glaze!