Trekking XXL socks have gone bye-bye. You can see them trying to make a getaway but I made them get in an envelope first so they'd stay together.

Labels: knitting socks, Trekking XXL

I've always loved rain. When I moved to Florida, it rained every afternoon about 4:00. Sadly, the climate changed. Now, whenever it rains, I run outside and take the same picture which always looks the same and is not so interesting. But I keep doing it and here's today's version.
I started Cookie A's Monkey Socks but messed it up quickly and started over with new yarn. I have made it all way through one repeat and just everyone else who knits this sock, I think it is very fun and very well written. Cookie A is some kind of cute sock genius.The yarn is a Trekking bamboo blend.
The ugliest socks I have ever made went to a honey-haired honey in snowy Maine who continues to say she loves them. I felt guilty and decided to make her pretty socks. Here's one I just completed It's Trekking XXL is one of their "jean" colors.

Labels: Cookie A, monkey socks, rain, Trekking XXL

First, I can't find my camera so I can't document this headache. I am simply knitting a simple sock with Trekking XXL yarn and nothing should go wrong. I was almost to the end of the toe when a little stitch that had not been knit into starting mocking me. I kept knitting thinking it would hide and leave me alone but it stuck out its little yarn tongue as I went row after row around. If the socks were for me, I might have just basted it down but they are not so I went back to fix it. I reknit the toe once, twice, three times, screwed up the kitchener, cut off the end of the toe, took out stitches one-by-one til it was right and am reknitting again.

I am intending to knit the monkey sock but really if I can not even do a toe, how am I going to make lace?

Here is the fabulous Jared Flood scarf that I'm making
and two of my favorite things: my son and some yarn. Isn't he wonderful to hold it for me?

Labels: Jared Flood, kitchener, Trekking XXL