Sock Summit

That's Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Meg Swansen, Barbara Walker and Tina Newton. I was in the right place at the right time for my knitting fangirl self to get this picture, and really, this whole experience seems to have been exactly that sort of experience - right place, right time, and I feel so very very blessed to have been a part of all this. I have made new friends, learned new techniques, and wow. I just can't believe the amazing experience I had. More pictures later, Chris and I are going for one last Burgerville run before catching our flight back.

Preparations

I am leaving for Sock Summit tomorrow. I've been off school a few days, so there has been much knitting and other preparation. Including the purchase of a new camera - Chris will be sightseeing on his own for much of the weekend and will want his, so I need my own for documentation of my yarny pursuits.



I think it'll do, don't you? The sock is a plain stockinette one, of the Sheepy Time BFL I spun back in april. I do hope there's enough yarn for that. But it'll do for plain knitting for travel and walking and for when my brain is too full to do anything else.

I need to get back to laundry and packing and all that jazz. No promises to blog during the Summit, but I'll have a summary once I get back, no doubt.

Yarn!

New Day from Spunky Club - February shipment. This was totally my astronomy homework in the house cup. 3-ply, worsted weight, about 175 yards



And here's some green stuff: Daydreams of Spring from The Vildish Twist - the fiber was a gift from Melinda and this is about half of it as a two-ply fingering weight.



I'm still knitting black socks and red stole, but started and frogged some other socks, and it's time to knit for reducio again, so that's fun. Current knitting crisis is the need for plain knitting for the three hour movie I'm planning to see tomorrow at midnight. Half-Blood Prince. Good times.

Great plans

It's July (how did that happen?). I have three weeks left of my summer class. This is the third and last month of the House Cup summer term, which means new classes and OWL-finishing time.

One of the classes has me thinking of spinning, so I think I'm also going to do the Tour de Fleece - spin every day July 4-26, with two rest days.

Other folks on Ravelry are doing WIP Wrestlemania, which I'm not saying I couldn't use, but I think I'm about full up on -alongs. So I think my only WIP wrestling this month (at least for the first bit) will be on the socks that started Sunday almost like this:


And ended Sunday like this:

Oh, Ravelry...

I pause my TiVo-ed Daily Show to finish my post about my beloved shawl (which will only be mine for so long, so I need to fall out of love with it sometime, but that'll happen eventually - although the pattern is remarkably un-black-holey, so far), and I get sucked into Ravelry and realize that although I kind of want to do a blanket of sock yarn, what I really want to do is the EZ Knitters Almanac Grafting blanket out of sock yarn. Because that sounds way better to me than mitered squares.

And so now my boyfriend Jon Stewart is paused in the other room while I go read the pattern and sort through my bin of leftover sock yarn and reorder the sock queue to make the blanket more fun. Yup. Good times.

A little something

This is my new obsession:



I'm in love with it. I like nothing more than snuggling up with it. I really don't want to finish writing this post, because I'd rather go hang on the sofa and knit it while watching whatever the TiVo's been hanging onto for me this week while I watched The Wire (Season 4 was amazing - heartbreaking, too).

Which is good, because it's my OWL for the House Cup, and I have a deadline of July 31 for it to be finished. (That's a nice soft deadline, my hard deadline is in early November.) At my current pace, being done by the end of July will not be an issue. So that's awesome.

...

Yeah, I just went and watched tv and knit for a few hours. That's all I got. :)

Crumbs, I know

Here's a super-happy pair of socks.

Having a minor knitting lull lately. Started new plain socks, still working on a few other things.