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October 31, 2005

Sock Yarn

This weekend was mostly filled with construction projects (Trav's adding on to the barn) so there was a lot of post hole digging and tamping and measuring going on and not a lot of knitting, but I got yarn in the mail! And boy is it yummy.

Sock yarn - both sport weight for the pattern I'm going to use to show some friends how to knit socks.

First, we have some Mountain Colors Weaver's Wool in Sierra

100% wool and very soft. I think this yarn will make a nice thick pair of ribbed socks.

Next, we have some Icelandic Sport-Weight sock yarn from Tongue River Farm

There are 600 yards or so in this skein and I plan to use some of it to knit Travis a pair of warm winter socks. Something simple, but durable to keep his toes warm while he works outside all winter.

I manged to work a bit on the Ombre Blanket and finished the first color (5 1/2 inches equals 40 rows in case you were wondering). I'm still working in the dark brown color range (now one stand of the dark brown and one heathered brown) and since we didn't have much sun this weekend, all the pictures look like a big brown blob. I'll try to get a better picture to share with you. I'm still working with the addi turbos because I haven't found anything that works better. The Boye needle should be in today, so we'll give that a whirl and see what happens, but I think I'm getting used to the addis.

Happy Halloween.