FO = Finished Object
I finished my first pair of socks for the Summer of Socks KAL! The pattern is Charade by Sandra Park. The yarn is Cakewalk Stash in the Taos colorway. I LOVE everything about these. The pattern was easy-peasy, one step up from a plain vanilla. It's a SKYP pattern (there we go with another abbreviation), similar to Simple Skyp Socks, but stockinette rather than ribbed. I love the yarn. Can't get enough of those speckles. Unfortunately, this is the only Cakewalk Yarn I'll likely ever knit with. It's very hard to come by since the Etsy store closed.
HO = Half Object
HO = Half Object
I went to the movies on Sunday (The Fault in Our Stars—awesomesauce) so I needed something I could knit in the dark without looking at my hands. My knitting-in-the-dark skills are a bit lackluster to say the least, so I didn't want to take a project I care about just in case it went awry. Barn Raising Quilt squares fit the bill. I'm making a 72-square blanket, and I've got about 24 squares, so I'm only 1/3 of the way done. Technically, this really isn't a HO. But who's being technical?
I think this is going to be my purse knitting for a while. Today I separated out all the sock yarn leftovers from projects I've knit from the cakes that others have given me. The yarns in this photo are all from my FOs. I want to make sure that I use these before using the others. It'll be cool when the blanket is finished and I can look at it to remember other projects.
WIP = Work-in-Progress
WIP = Work-in-Progress
You might be thinking that my Brickless looks strange. That's because it's not Brickless anymore. I just wasn't feeling it. Brickless is a lovely pattern and not difficult, but I needed something even easier. Enter Trillian. Still Martina Behm, still going to be an asymmetrical shawl/scarf thing. It hasn't grown very much this week because I was working on the socks.
SIP = Socks-in-Progress
SIP = Socks-in-Progress
It's the Summer of Socks, so how could I finish one sock project and NOT cast on another? These are my best friend Carol's birthday socks. I picked the yarn from my stash, and she picked the pattern. She chose Socks for Euni by "Feministy" Liz Abinante. The yarn is a Yarn Hollow Sockreligious sock blank. I wound it into balls rather than knit from the blank. I'm doing these two-at-a-time on separate needles. This is the way Steph of the Must Stash Podcast knits most of her socks, and since I often have a bad case of second sock syndrome, I thought I would try this.
So, there you have it. FO, HO, WIP, SIP. FOHOWIPSIP. Sounds like a good craft beer name to me!
So, there you have it. FO, HO, WIP, SIP. FOHOWIPSIP. Sounds like a good craft beer name to me!