![Confession Time with Katie:
Playing Mario Kart has made me a worse driver. As I drove to lunch with a friend, I wished for a flashing star so I could be invincible and drive through everything.
Also, we're eating bagels for lunch because throwing rules out windows is my new favorite hobby.
Speaking of hobbies, I started a Constellate Hat in the colorway, African Violets by LolaBean Yarn. The first Constellate took me nineteen months so surely i can beat that!
LOL. @marz1pan thought I was knitting a sock for someone with HUGE calves!
In writing news, I plan to send a short story before mid-December so join my Inner Circle Email List if you need a dopamine hit right about now.
I hope you have the Monday you need, Crew! I love you!!!!
[ID: Veggie rosemary bagel and tuna salad sesame seed bagel with a purple hat in progress.]
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In light of the fact that I do not have any Chrysanthemums to take pictures of these in, Sydney and I traipsed around our hood looking for photo ops. First, we found a stump.
Then, a “ladder” that I would not trust with my weight, but that seemed plenty strong enough to hold a pair of socks.
…and then we found the barrel cacti. I’m not much for prickly pears, but we have a few barrel cacti that have charmed me. I’m always pleased when there’s a new one in the bunch.
These socks require concentration. I wouldn’t recommend knitting them while operating heavy machinery, but they are totally worth it. This is another lovely pattern from Hunter Hammersen and I’m very pleased with it in spite of the pain that I went through with the picot edging. In the end, I figured it out and now I feel like a bona fide knitting genius (I just learned that bona fide is two words, so clearly, not a real genius, but a knitting genius nonetheless).
Mine raveled here
Ps. These were the socks I wanted to finish for Socktoberfest. I was only a bit late.
Pps. Check out what others have finished at Tami’s Amis and Wisdom begins in Wonder and Natural Suburbia
Tags: Chrysanthemum socks, hunter hammersen, knit, socks, socktoberfest
LOL! So I guess knitting them and driving are out of the question? How about operating a fork lift while knitting them? No? OK, I guess that only leaves me with a stationary bike. They are lovely.
thank you so much! um, with the charts, even a stationary bike might be a bit much, unless you aggie engineered some kind of stand to hold the pattern. :)
You took great pictures, very imaginative! And the socks are pretty, too.
Visiting from tami.
Thanks so much and thank you for visiting!
Those socks look cozy and warm.
Thanks! It is just starting to cool off here in Texas, so for once, my knitting is well-timed.
Pretty! The stump picture is particularly nice.
I don’t think people take enough nice stump pictures. Thank you! :)
I posted socks today, too! Although yours put mine to shame. I haven’t tried a challenging sock pattern in quite awhile now.
I need to start some plain ones soon. They are better for on the go knitting, but I do love the pretty ones. :)
Those socks are lovely. I need to lift my sock knitting ban because I’m feeling inspired to knit another pair.
Sock knitting ban!?!? Blasphemy! :)
I love difficult looking sock patterns. The red yarn was the perfect choice for these. Nice job.
Thanks! I loved the pattern so much, it took me forever to pick a yarn.