A rant, of which teh intarwebz doesn’t need more. For your perusal are some real, live, works-in-progress!
First up are my Cool By The Pool Socks. The yarn is from Yarn Chef, who has a new fiber shop on Etsy. I’ve bought a few skeins from her but as of yet, no unspun fiber. The yarn is gorgeous; the colors, heavenly. It is a delight to work with, smooth and giving in my hands.
Cool By The Pool Socks, 6 April, 2009
Next is the first sock in a pair from a skein to which I’ve long since lost the ball band. I started knitting it back when we lived in Sleepy Hollow, before we put down my dear old girl Scaramouche (Scaramouche Will You Do The Fandango) at 17 1/2. I couldn’t bear to pick it back up for the longest time. It’s coming along nicely, although the yarn is the teeniest but thicker than Cool By the Pool, and the fit is coming out a skosh too big. So I won’t wear these with my dress shoes. 
Inside the sock is a blocker from Fearless Fibers, also on Etsy (these blockers are also pictured above). Lovely cedar, fits wonderfully. The knitting bag is from yet another great Etsy shop, Stuck In Illinois. They’ve got lots of different patterns to choose from, and they’re a really nice size.
Pink and purple sock, missing ballband. Hope it's superwash!
And last, but nowhere near least, is my latest in an interrupted series of Dropstitch Ponchos. I knitted seven of these suckers for my female relations one Chanukah (2006), and had a great time doing it. I got the pattern from The Knitting Cove in Port Jefferson, NY, out on Long Island. It takes four skeins of Noro Iro or the equivalent and is simple to execute. I knitted one for myself first, loved it so much that I decided that this was to be the gift. In talking to my sister not too long ago, I found out that not only does she love hers, but she wears it all the time, and gets a lot of compliments on it. All. The. Time. Music to my ears! She also wore it in a publicity shot that she was in for Nursing Is Normal, a photographic display of nursing moms in public settings shot in Madison, Wisconsin. She loves it so much that she wants another one, in blues this time (the one she has is purple). So here’s my new one (for myself) in progress:
Noro Iro Dropstitch Poncho, Earth Day, 2009
bipolarlawyercook said,
May 24, 2009 @ 3:10 pm
Need.Blue.Stripey.Socks. And, erm, hello from the hole I’ve been hiding in.