Monday, April 16, 2007

Leap of (sock) faith!

All right, all right! I'm blogging already...

So, I've begun this tangential hobby (um, blogging) at the instigation of the wonderful new friends I've made in the Sit n' Knit. I've refused to start spinning, dyeing, weaving, even crocheting in order to concentrate on knitting. Then of course, there's the time-taken-away-from-knitting spent reading others people's blogs (lurking), listening to knitting podcasts (which I do to distract myself from the exercising I am forcing myself to do), and shopping online for yarn, patterns, books (a self-denying practice since I am trying to not become a stasher).

But, now I've capitulated to blogging in order to 1) have an on-going journal of my knitting; 2) to stop fishing for admiring comments from my loving, but much put upon husband and instead fish from a larger if less-intimately-known group of people who actually knit; 3) alleviate the mocking of the aforementioned Sit n' Knit bloggers (you know who you are...) 4) occupy myself on the unexpected day-off due to rain from my work today! Woo hoo!

So here goes nothing!
Pattern: Canal du Midi socks from Knitting on the Road,by Nancy Bush
Yarn: The pair was knit from two skeins of Lana Grossa Meilenweit (80% wool, 20% nylon) in color #1104
Yarn enabler: Simply Socks Yarn Co.
Time I spent knitting them when I could be renovating the bathroom: April 8th-April 16th.
New technique I learned: A stretchy cast-off for my rather voluptuous calves.
The two things that I love about these socks is that the top half of the calf is ribbed which makes them stay up really well on my shapely leg and that the pattern is intuitive and easy to memorize. I worked them toe-up using the heel from the Widdershin socks, which is my favorite heel both for technique and fit.
Thanks for reading my inaugural post!

10 comments:

HPNY KNITS said...

ya' no longer blogless Penelope! you did it- is fun and will be great to read your knitting (and or spinning, dyeing, weaving, even crocheting...) adventures!

nicolina said...

WELCOME! so excited to exchange appropriate and inappropriate yarn commentary.

Debbie said...

you have a blog - you caved!! woo hoo

Knitting Ewe said...

Congradulations. Obviously I love the look - I also really love the way you documented the project. Bathroom be damned - great socks!

Annie said...

BWAH HA HA HA HA! Our eeevil (but very good) plan worked! I can't believe you have stash listed in the side bar. You're going down, Mz Kwooz...you won't be able to code a list fast enough by then end of the month...

Welcome to the blogosphere! How else can we feed your monster?

misplacedpom said...

Here's for growing our butts to new proportions together! Hurrah!

Harlem Purl said...

Welcome! Now you're one of us. Mwhahahahahaha.

Anonymous said...

Welcome to the sometimes evil land of blogsphere.

Necia

Code Purl said...

Welcome to blogland. Now what are we going to bug you about? I'll add you as a link on my page :-)

Anonymous said...

Yay for you!! A great read too!! Welcome to the world of blog...now I have to go and post too!!