I frogged the Kristi socks.  The Acero splits too much for a project like Kristi, which is loaded with small cables.  I tried to persevere through it, but a few days ago I realized I haven't knit anything for two weeks.  Frogging the Kristi socks immediately fixed the problem.

Here is a progress photo of the 'Sekrit Project'.  The Ella Rae Superwash and soft and the project itself is almost mindless.  There are a few cables thrown in to keep it interesting.

I sort of hard an epiphany after frogging the Kristi socks.  I have a lot of variegated sock yarn.  A lot...  In fact, I should probably sell some (No, that wasn't my epiphany).  I don't want to sell any of it; a lot of it I picked out with Jake and I remember how almost each skein was purchased.  Picking out a perfect pattern for my sock yarn, especially when its variegated, is frustrating me.  I'm tired of trying.

I'll just knit plain vanilla socks.  No worrying about the pattern being lost in the coor and I don't care so much about pooling or identical socks.

I recently purchased some Creatively Dyed Calypso yarn from The Loopy Ewe.  I picked up the Promise colorway from the Calypso line.  I'm going straight to her booth at the Midwest Fiber Fair; I love her colors and she's really nice.  I started a Yarn Harlot plain vanilla sock and am enjoying knitting again.

 

The truth is that I had to frog my first attempt and start over again.  I was getting 9 stitches per inch instead of the 7.5 suggested on the ball band.  I had to add an extra tweleve stitches to cast on in order to compensate.

Is anyone else going to the Midwest Fiber Fair?

 

I'm in Maryland spending a few days with my parents.  My extended family got together for dinner here and a good time was had by all.  The highlight of this by far was playing with my niece and nephew.  They have a knack of making you forget about all stress going through your head.

Today is much quieter; my mother went in for a heart catheterization procedure this morning.  She has a minor blockage in her artery that will be treated with medication and she'll be back home this afternoon.  I've been knitting this to pass the time.

This is the Prismatic Scarf, knit with Sheep Shop #3 yarn.  My husband picked out the yarn and he recently expressed interest in how great it would be to have an everyday scarf to wear in the cold weather.  He already has a scarf in blindingly bright rainbow colors, but he only seems to wear that during live shows.

I don't want to waste a perfectly good scarf, so sometimes I wear it out myself.

This scarf doesn't curl and the slip stitches keep it interesting.  I don't expect to finish this in time for him to use it for this season.  Once January 1st hits, I want to focus my knitting energy on socks for the January sockdown.  This is good to have around for mindless knitting to pass the time.

 

 

While I am in stasis between work and school, I started on a project I've been coveting since I started knitting.

The Rogue Hooded Pullover from The Girl From Auntie.  After consulting with the owner at Needleworks and my wallet, I decided to knit this using Ella Rae Classic in the Toast colorway.  It feels fantastic.

I threaded in a lifeline through the stitches that are picked up to start the pocket.  That way I was sure the pocket was straight and that the stitches were evenly spaced apart.  I'm sure that not putting in the lifeline would have given me a headache.

The cabling detail on both sides of the pullover makes the knitting interesting enough considering that everything else for the body is stockinette.  I added an extra cable repeat to give it length after reading posts on the Rogue Knitalong group on Ravelry.  I'm now wondering if I should have used a cable repeat that doesn't give Rogue any shaping.  I like to eat a lot of apple pie.

I hope it fits; the ladies at the knit shop measured me so I could be sure of the numbers at least.

I also finished a very old work in progress.  Two years old is my estimation.

Sexual Chocolate Jaywalkers.  These are knit on size 1 dpns in a Lorna's Laces in a colorway only available at Purl Soho in Manhattan.  You can purchase all of their exclusive colorways here.  This one is called Chocolate Stripe.

I initially knit the first sock one size too small and had to frog it.  Then I got tired of looking at them and threw them in the closet.  When I had more free time, I fished them out and finished them up.  The grafting on one of the toes came out and I fixed it the best I could, which means it looks a little sloppy.  I am totally OK with this at this point.  They are done, they are mine, and I rather like them.