hourly update..!!

Yay.. at the toes.. one more row... and then grafting off.. I see the finish line!!

just the toes!!

Just the toes of these socks are left...and soon to be finished today... After 4 closing shifts in a row.. I'm moving slow today... but these WILL get finished..!!.. The air-conditioner is supposed to be fixed.. for the final time today.. there is a leak somewhere.. I don't know how hot its going to get in here during the process.. hopefully not very hot...If you have been watching the news.. there is the chance of a hurricane / tropical storm heading this way .. and we will start feeling the effects.. rain and wind starting Monday or Tuesday.. The second meeting of INOKissimmee is scheduled for this Tuesday.. if the weather is bad it is very unlikely that there will be a meeting... I'll send a notice out if that is the case.. Gratz to all you ravelympics medal winners..!!

Heals!!

We have heals.. yay.. as you can see these socks do not look like a pair.. but I like them any way. They are very fitted which is not the norm for me.. most of my socks are a little big because my feet are small.. but these are going to fit just right... I also made them a little shorter because I looked up the yardage that other people used and I have about 30yards less.. at this point it seems I have a lot of yarn left though.. thats the benefit of toe up socks.. you can use up all your yarn and alway have enough.. no guess work... not the case in leg down socks..I think I might have yarn left overs..
















What have you been doing as you knit your ravelympic projects... I've been watching the olympics of course.. I love the gymnastics, synchronized diving, swimming .. well just about everything.. and when they aren't on.. I've been watching some movies.. here are a few that I have watched and enjoyed in between the stitches.. Starter for ten, Lars and the Real Girl and the other Boleyn Girl.

You Are Apple Green

You are almost super-humanly upbeat. You have a very positive energy that surrounds you. And while you are happy go lucky, you're also charmingly assertive. You get what you want, even if you have to persuade those against you to see things your way. Reflective and thoughtful, you know yourself well - and you know that you want out of life.

What Color Green Are You?

I got this from Yarnish.. we are both knitting the Icarus shawl.. and thanks to Jackie I'm on ravelry.. (^_^)..!!!

pretty sock.. ugly sock..!!!

This was my progress as of yesterday morning on my zig zag socks for the ravelympics....


















This is where I left off last night... there is no resemblance from one sock to the other.. all I can say at this point is .. ugly sock.. pretty sock... this is handspun yarn and there is some variance it the thickness here and there and obviously the colors... but.. they feel really soft... I hope soon they will look a little more like a pair..

on your mark.. get set.. go!!!

All was set and ready for today..
















Ready.. get set... go...!! the cast on was giving me some trouble I twisted one sock and had to start it over again.. the second time all went well and now that the cuff is finished all is going smoothly.. these socks are not going to match .. at all.. and I would have preferred the toe up version .. the cuff down version is definitely the harder way to cast on.. so many stitches and yarn coming from all directions and getting all tangled up on the cables...it was careful going there for a bit.. hopefully smooth sailing from this point on.. I'm sprinting to the store.. for some food then I'll be working on these again later in the day..

ravelympics!!

I'm getting all my supplies together.. needles .. yarn.. pattern.. getting a good nights rest...
My project is Zig Zag socks..
My yarn is Candy stripes handspun sock yarn.
My needles are knitpicks fixed circulars size 2..









So exciting.. good luck to all you ravelers that are participating.. (^_^)

bit by bit..

Projects are moving along bit by bit.. to the left is my razor cami.. I only work on it during my breaks at work and sometimes they are only 15 minutes..I have 10 more eyelet rows to knit to the armhole divide ..next.. to the right is my icarus shawl.. I spend an evening here and there working on it.. any time I find the time... and I worked on it at the last OKW meeting.. the colors are changing so prettily.. right now I'm in the middle of the 4th repeat of chart 1... it looks small..















I spun some soft angora/wool dk yarn specifically to make these baby booties... the pattern is in LMKG... more about these later..