I spent a lot of time today making a swatch to check my gauge for a sock I want to start. It's nothing fancy, I'm new to sock making, but it takes what seems like a lot of time to make a 4" gauge swatch in the round. It's like making a quarter of the sock, and then since the gauge wasn't right, I had to rip it out right away. Frustrating. The only thing that saved me was seeing the pretty hand dyed yarn as it was revealed. It's nicer than I thought it would be when I first got it.
I'm already gearing up for Fall knitting, I'm anticipating it. I took a break from it over the summer for the most part, I was getting too obsessed. I also signed up for the class at Tall Mouse, and if I can afford it I might take a class or two at Yarn Lady or someplace like it.
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I'm back again after a short break to run to Michael's in search of double pointed needles that will get me the correct gauge and that I don't have already, 2 and 2.5. They didn't have them, of course, so I ended buying some sterling silver kidney wires for my Egyptian Revival earrings there, and then got back in the car and drove to Velona's where I should have gone in the first place. I couldn't get out of there without buying some yarn, I was looking for some pastel colored wool that wasn't too scratchy so I could (eventually) make some lacy socks. I found Baby Ull by Garn Studio in a pretty mint shade, and it's quite soft compared to some other wool super wash that I checked out.
When I got home I fed the girls and myself, then worked on another gauge swatch with the 2.5 needles. Now I've started the sock, which is going to be very simple. I'm sort of working my way down in yarn thickness. The first sock I did was a pair of worsted weight bed socks, these are going to be in sport weight, a child's sock. Every time I start something with fingering weight, I make a mess of it, so I've designed this progression for myself.
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