Wednesday, April 30, 2008

• WIP Wednesday

  I love exam week.  I wish I were teaching more classes, because then I could proctor more exams.  (Of course, then I'd have to grade them, which is a bad thing, I suppose.)
  
  During the exam I proctored on Monday, I finished the racetrack socks:
  
  
  
  These were fun.  I used Zitron Trekking XXL sock yarn, which I really liked.  The yarn felt a little tough at first, but after I got in the groove, it really started to feel yummy.  I used a standard short-row, toe-up pattern, with a 3x1 rib on the cuff and instep.
  
  The recipient really, really liked them.
  
  
  
  In fact, he won't let me wash them.  He hides them every night so that I don't take them and wash them while he's asleep.  (insert eye rolling here)
  
  I also worked a little more on my scrap blankie:
  
  
  
  It's about two-thirds as wide as it'll eventually be.  I want it big enough to cover our bed, which is a double.  But I may regain some sanity change my mind and make it enough for a twin bed.  (Isaac is rooting for that, not realizing that it will be finished just in time for Theo to use it in his dorm room at college.)
  
  And since I'm all out of sock yarn scraps, I started another sock.  (I'm not all out of scraps, but I've used everything at least once, so I've got to collect more scraps before I use them all again.)
  
  
  
  My iSight camera isn't the greatest, so you can't see how absolutely dreamy this yarn is.  This is Colinette Jitterbug, colorway Kingfisher.  It is quite possibly the most yummy yarn I've ever knit with.  The colors glow, and the yarn is somehow soft and sturdy at the same time.  I'm in love.  I've already forgotten how much of my Christmas money I had to part with to buy it. 
  
  I'm trying to figure out just the right pattern to show it off, so I've frogged and restarted this sock about four times already.  The yarn is still as pretty as can be--no fuzzies or anything.
  

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