More socks??and more snow??

These skid marks were made by Hannah.  She was on a dead run to the office to go see Josh and LeRoy got in her way and she upended and slid.  She was ok, just mad at LeRoy and told him off royaly.  lol

 These socks are made out of Mrs. Crosby Loves to Play colorway Summer Bloom.  I put the details about the yarn in an earlier post.  They took me about 8 days to finish.  I seem to be picking up speed on socks, or maybe I am just spending more time knitting than I had been.

These have the Mrs Crosby Toes and the rest is a really decadent feeling yarn.  It is Heritage Silk Cascade Yarns and is 85% Merino Superwash Wool/15% Mulberry Silk.  The color is 5604 whatever that is. It feels so heavenly and soft. The pattern is  Petunia Dursley Double Eyelet Socks.  This is a free pattern available through Ravelry  Another easy to memorize pattern and a quick one.  I took about 13 days start to finish with several days being very little knitting getting done. 

 I started the toe of the next pair at noon but haven't even got the increases done yet.  I still have not chosen a pattern but am thinking of a small cable.  We will see.

A bit of snow ....

We had a bit of snow last evening.  Not much, thank goodness.   Now it is snowing VERY lightly out there again!  When will the snow end and spring get here so I can go camping?  I am ready to go (even though the camper isn't) and eager to go. 

We used to camp.  We even belonged to 3 camping clubs.  Most of the members were family and those that weren't actually family soon became as such.  The kids loved it when they were younger because they were the only kids and ALL the campers in our group treated them as grand kids and they all had special food/treats in their campers for them.  They soon figured out who had what so they knew who to visit when they wanted a particular thing.  Of course their Granny and Great-Grandma always had just about anything that they wanted so that was their first stops.  LOL

Now they are all grown up (41 and 36) so they won't be camping with us.  But I hope to take our grandson and a friend occasionally.  Sims is 15 now.  It really isn't possible or fair.  We didn't get him until he was almost 10 so we all missed quite a bit of his growing up.  But we have him now and we are enjoying him.

Still working on the red toe/speckled top socks.  I have a couple 3 inches to do on the leg and they will be done.  Then on to the next pair which will have a speckled toe and probably a solid blue top.

Still working occasionally on my Cathedral Window quilt.  When I have been sewing I have been making doll clothes on the machine.  I'll get back to the CW quilt in a bit.

We are talking with friends about a trip up in the New England states some time this spring or summer.  I'll wait until we get back to post about that.  No need to tell that I will be away from home.  You never know who might pick up on being away and come help themselves to your house.
I think it pretty foolish when people post on facebook that they are here and there with so and so.  It is just asking to be broken into.
Granted, a blog is different than facebook, but all the same, it is not a good idea to publicly announce that you  are not home.

All things chicken. lol  Found this at Tractor Supply last summer and loved it, just not the price.  It was $99.99.  Too rich for my blood.  

Have a great day.  Thanks for stopping by.

I've done a bit of knitting recently....

 I have finally gotten back into the swing of socks.  Don't get me wrong, I have been knitting socks all along for the past several months, but I have been rather slow and lackadaisical about it.  One pair of socks actually took me 3 months to finish!!  That is totally pathetic.
 
This first pair of socks was started late December and finished up early January.  I "think" this yarn is Colinette Jitterbug in Toscana colorway.  At least this ball band was in my just finished basket..  The pattern is  Waterfall by Wendy Knits.  I really like this pattern as you will notice when you look at the next socks and the 5th pair.  It is an easy pattern to memorize and see where you are in the pattern without having to keep notes. 

 These were started mid January and finished up the first part of Feb. The beautiful grey is Silk Sock Handpaints, Handpainted by Cherry Tree Hill in color Ash.  It is a blend of 63% superwash merino, 18.5% merino and 18.5% bleached tussah silk. This is some yarn that I ordered off of eBay. Very soft and lovely to knit with. I think I will look for more.  

These were started next and finished in February.  This is  the same yarn as the above, just a different color.  I had a small brain storm when I went to cast these on and knitted the toes out of the yarn from the last pair of socks.  I was going to do heels and cuff also of the black/slate but there was not enough yarn and then I decided that for this year each new pair of socks would have toes from the pair before.  Lets me keep a timeline of when the socks were knit.  I know, silly, but you have to keep things fun, don't you?  The pattern is Tidalwave by O/C Knitiot Designs - Deby Lake  This is another easy to memorize and see where you are pattern.  Good for knitting on auto-pilot. It is also Silk Sock Handpaints  in the same blend. in colorway Red Dawn.

This pair was knit for a good friend who is diabetic and needed sleep socks that would not strangle her ankles and would keep her feet warm.  They are some superwash merino that I had in my stash.  It is Nashua Handknits.  it is 100 % Superwash Wool (50% merino. 50% wool). It is very  soft.  They only took about 3 days to knit.  A very fast knit.  I think these were the first pair of socks I made out of worsted.  Unless I make her more bed socks it will probably be the last pair also, lol   They were made in February.  They didn't get red toes since they are worsted and not fingering weight.

This is my current pair of socks on the needles.  I started them last Saturday night and just did the toe increases before laying them aside.  These are also Waterfall.  The pattern shows up much more in real life than in the photo.  The yarn is  Mrs. Crosby Loves To Play in the colorway Summer Bloom.  It is a blend of 75% superwash merino wool, 15% silk, and 10% cashmere.  Truly luxurious feeling.
I won/earned this yarn when I did The Camp Loopy Glamping way back in 2014. 

 

This is D's silly dog.  She went under the table in the laundry room when I went to clean out the litter pans.  She just sat there and looked at me.  When I moved the other litter pan she was trapped.  I figured she would tromp through the litter pan to get out, but she waited patiently for me to move it again.