Itching for Yarn

It has been a slow knitting week, due largely in part to the fact that the yarn I ordered from Nordic Mart on May 3rd still hasn't shipped out. The yarn I need to finish the commissions. The commissions that are due on June 6th...

However, there is a good update on that. I finally emailed them last night, and got a response (close to midnight!) letting me know that they will expedite my order. So now I just have to hope it gets to cross the border without a hold-up. I wish I had written sooner.

I won't have too much left to knit for the order, so I think I'll be ok if the yarn gets here reasonably soon. Only the second socks for two pair are needed (in addition to the toes of  the first socks, but that shouldn't take long at all).

On to the update then, weenie though it is.

I've knit as far as I can on the Hold Your Seahorses until more orange arrives, and am partially through the toe decreases. There is a possibility that I'll run out of navy on the second sock, but I hope to be able to pick some up locally if need be. I'll reverse the colours too, which may help.

Look at how adorable the seahorse is (pre-blocked, so he'll only get better)!

I cast on the fourth and last pair for this order, Reindeer Socks by Sandra Jäger. I love the colours, and think I want to remake my whole world in turquoise and red. The second sock will be with the colours reversed, and for a change I have all the yarn I need on hand. Of course, this is the pair that isn't due along with the other three, but I hope to have it finished anyway.

Cross your fingers with me that I can get the rest of the yarn within a week or so. I can be a speedy knitter, but I'd rather do without the pressure, thank you very much.

Moose, Elephants and Seahorses, oh my!

Hello Monday, hello blog update!

I'm currently working on a commission of  four pair of colourwork socks, and one is off the needles.

I based these on Elgsokker by Maria Simonsen. The design is in Norwegian (I think), which I don't speak, so I basically just followed the chart and made up the rest of the pattern. They were designed for worsted weight yarn, but I adjusted them for fingering weight, and only used one repeat of the moose pattern on the leg, striping the rest.

Two of the other pair for this order are on the needles. The first is Water for the Elephants by Rose Hiver. I knit a pair of these a few years ago, and it may just be the pattern that made me fall in love with this designer. These are currently on hold, as I ran out of black and am waiting for a resupply.

In the meantime, I've moved on to the third pair: Hold Your Seahorses by Yvette Noel (aka Rose Hiver). This woman is definitely the go-to for gorgeous animal colourwork patterns. It doesn't look like much yet, but just wait...

As a break from colourwork, I worked on one of the socks for Sock Madness and managed to get the first of the pair knit. These are Sweet Nuttins by Adrienne Fong, and have beads on the leg (I opted to leave them off the foot because I'm not sure that would be comfortable). These have a really cute ruffled cuff that involved casting on a bajillion stitches before decreasing, which looks adorable.

And for something completely different, I knit a lily for my mom. The pattern by Heather Broadhurst was published on Knitty way back in 2006 and I finally decided to brave it (I love socks, but tend to shy away from fiddly things). It is extraordinarily clever, and apart from the never ending i-cord stem, was shockingly fun to knit. There may be more of these in the future.

Oopsies!

Well, what do you know - I completely dropped you. I am notorious for falling off tracks, and this seems to be no exception. However, that being said, I just signed up for Tour de Sock again and figured it would be a good time to try some resuscitation.

It's been a year. Lots of knitting, lots of life changes, lots of the same, too. First, here are the remaining 2015 Tour socks I didn't talk about:

 Far Into the Forest by Kirsten Hall

 From a Distance by Meagheen Ryan

 

Nordic Stripes by Tobi Beck

 Ophidia by Hypercycloid Designs 

Touring Bubbles by Karen Buhr

I also participated in Sock Madness (which is still ongoing, and I've knit more than this pair, but the other pictures are, quite frankly, embarassing):

Waimakariri by StringHerder Designs

I worked on a bunch of colourwork items:

 La Mancha's Giants by Yvette Noel

 Angela's Mittens by Yvette Noel

0-789 Christmas socks with pattern by Drops Design

Had company while trying to photograph some projects, as is often the case:

 Micro Monekey by gilraen's knits

 Shazbat by Heidi Nick

Snape's Stockings by Erica Lueder

And even designed a pair of socks, which I have yet to write the pattern for:

See? I should have stuck around, and will put my intentions to it. I need a plan. Not a random "whenever a project is done" plan, but maybe once a week could work. How does Monday sound? Have I suggested this to myself before? Sounds awfully familiar...