I felt like a genius for coming up with this pattern (Vanessa antiopa Socks) and colorway pairing and getting them to play nice… until I reached the heel. After turning the heel, yarn started pooling in a Kermit-like manner on top of the sock (a lot of green). (note: I gave up on the dpn’s with this pattern and switched to circular needles – there was some laddering and I finally decided it was not worth it.)



Once I got down to 66 stitches, the color pooling started to behave itself a bit better and things were once again chugging along…..until I realized that I did not actually read the pattern and was supposed to have continued row ONE of the chart all the way through the gusset decreases. Well, crap.



I must frog. This makes me think of Kermit again.



Ok. Row one ’til I finish the decreases. check. Now, onto the foot AND the rest of the chart. In spite of the false starts, I still think these socks are a quick fun knit.

Mine raveled here

To see what others are working on, check out:
Tami’s Amis
Small Things (I finished reading Outlander – I rather enjoyed it. At some point, I’ll dive into the sequel.)
Frontier Dreams

I struggled with whether I was going to review this movie on the blog because I didn’t know if I wanted to admit to having seen it. It was that vulgar. So….don’t go see this one with your dear sweet mother. That being said, I thought most of the movie was pretty funny. A couple of times, I thought, “too far. seriously, too far.” but overall, I was amused. The main reasons I decided to confess to having seen this movie are James Franco and his cardigan(s).

I don’t know if the cardigan he wore for most of the movie is a hand knit, but he’s playing himself in the movie and he seems like the kind of guy that would own a couple of nice cardigans.


At some point, he seems to have said during an interview, “I’m a big cardigan sweater guy.” I knew there was something I liked about him.

The new knitty is out! Have you seen it?

At first glance, I scanned past the Sineesfrid vest, but now, I’m thinking of adding it to my queue; it’s charming.

I think I love the Lewis sweater….my only misgivings are with the shirttail hemline. Think I’d prefer it straight across like a tunic.

Jackaroo looks like a nice hard-working cardigan, but I’d use some one-of-a-kind buttons to highlight that it is hand knit.

The construction of the Flying Geese intrigues me, so I’ll be making a pair of those at some point.

Up ’til now, I couldn’t really see myself wearing legwarmers. But, now I’m ready to cast on for a pair of Nozky….I’m thinking gray.

And lastly, the Matsudana socks will probably be the first of these projects to find their way onto my needles. These puppies are beautiful and well, you may have noticed that I knit a lot of socks.


Ps. I hate to post a blog with no pic, but as I don’t know that knitty would appreciate me using their images, I’ll leave you with the Stripee socks – take 2. They’re going in the mail tomorrow!