It has taken over a week to get this first Trekking sock done.  I’ve struggled with it, ripped it out at least 4 times, ripped the heel back twice, but have finally finished it, and am quite happy with it.  There’s nothing unusual about it that should have caused all of this distress (2×2 [...]

I stopped by to visit the lovely Dani’s blog, and saw this fun quiz.  I’m not usually the quiz sort, but couldn’t resist this one.  And, since my iPod is mostly contemporary Christian music, I had the feeling that my songs would not be good answers.  I was wrong, at least in a few cases.  [...]

about the amount of Kool-Aid in the Knitnik household, as referenced in the last post, I thought I would share this with you.

I also counted, and nearly hit the floor.  There are 200 (yes, exactly, and isn’t that strange?) packs of Kool-Aid, Wylers, and Flavor-Aid in my house, as well as 15 packs of Aguas [...]

I mentioned in the last post the watermelon yarn debacle.  For those of you who didn’t believe it was as bad as I said, here’s the proof.  And it’s only through the magic of my mediocre Photoshop skills that you are seeing two socks, as I only started one, and this shot is of both [...]

  
The kool-aid socks are done!  I still don’t have a name for them, but I love them!  I have started some socks about 5 times now with some Trekking XXL color 134, which is some very Spring-y pink, green, and aqua, with a little grey and white fair isle thrown in for effect.  I really [...]

So I’m taking the chance that Mom won’t see this before she actually gets it.  You’ve heard the phrase, “a day late and a dollar short”?  That’s me.  Saturday is Mom’s birthday, and of course we know what Sunday is, though did you know that yesterday was Hispanic Mother’s Day?  At least according to the [...]

Here is a lovely (well, okay, only semi-lovely) up-close shot of garter rib stitch.  I have been straightening and laundering, so I have accomplished a whopping 2 rows today, though I’m about ready for a heel.  So - I can type, or I can knit.  Guess which one I’m going to pick?
Oh - be sure [...]

So we’re home, after a long weekend in the beautiful NC mountains.  It was a long drive home, and we have created our own mountains here in the Knitnik house, specifically mountains of whites, darks, and delicates.  The unpacking is complete, the children are bathed and in bed, and I finally have time to take [...]

These socks, in Lorna’s Laces Watercolor (and yes, the same dyelot) are different colors.  Not just different spacing on the color changes, but actual different colors.  I thought I had noticed it in the balls, but didn’t think much of it until the 2nd sock was going.  Not only does sock #1 have way more [...]