Caffinna’sCreations

Okay due to the comments posted and the personal emails that I have received, I will be posting the pattern for the socks! It’ll be a week or so before I can get to where I can even consider posting, but I will post the pattern. In the meen time, what do I call them? I had refered to them as the NYC Brat’s socks due to the fact oldest son (aka Artboy) is in NYC for another couple of weeks or so. But the socks need their own name. So………………….any Ideas?

They are finally done! These babies will go into the mail tomorrow, I am done. No the stitch patterns do NOT match! No, the guage does NOT match! No they will not be worn more than once, twice at the most! It sure would be easier to knit this kid socks if he were close enough I could size them as I knitted, but alas he insists that as an adult be allowed to act one. (LOL)

One person expressed interest in the pattern. If I get atleast three people replying to this post expressing an interest in the pattern I will post it. (That’ll mean knitting another sock, or pair of them this time for ME!) So post a comment here if you are interested in my pattern for “Toe-up on DBL PTS Sock Pattern”.

I was nearly done with sock no.2 of NYC Brat’s pair of socks and decided to check it against this first sock. Eeek! The second sock was knitted with less tension than the first! What to do, what to do. I left message on the Brat’s cell phone to call I had urgent question about the socks. You see if he was only going to wear them that one time (maybe twice) I’d just finish the second sock and send as is. If, however, he was going to wear them for some time before using them in or to create another art piece, I would need to frog the second sock and re-do it. Time is short, so I left the message. Brat called and said that they would be fine. (He also took yet another oppertunity to tell me to quit stressing and worrying so much about them! Yeah right, like he doesn’t stress over his artwork!..lol) I’ll get picture(s) taken and posted tomorrow sometime, just not in the mood to do it right now.

Finally today I was able to get back to MY knitting. I did two repeats on my Adamas Shawl, and spent almost no time working on it! I had gotten so used to working with the lace weight yarn that working with the fingering weight yarn felt huge and foreign in my hands! LOL! It’s nice to get back to my lace, and knitting for myself, and purple!!! This is also my KTC’s “Moll Flanders” project, I have two weeks until the completion deadline. No worries, I have 8 repeats left and the border.

After my Adamas Shawl is done I have to get mom’s cruise stole finished. I will have about two to three weeks left to get it done. This should leave enough time for mom to be able to take it around and show it off. However, I realy have about three weeks to finish. As far as I am concerned, she can take it around and show it off whenever they get back from the cruise!

Hubby (and I) still need your prayers. He hasn’t yet found a job, and if he doesn’t soon ….well, just prayer for us.

Here’s a picture of the first, and completed, sock of the pair. The knitting needle is 14inches long and in the picture only as a size comparison to the sock. The sock stetches atleast another four inches, so it should fit his size 12/13 foot (I hope) okay. It’s a tube sock so there’s no heal flap. I need to get these done and in the mail too quick to have to futz about with turning a heal.

This is my progress on sock no. 1 of the pair. In just about 24 hours of work, I have about 8.25″ done on the sock. I have never done toe up socks before, and I am designing this myself. You cannot tell from the picture, but I am doing two differant stitch patterns: (1) american moss stitch; (2) false ribbing pattern. This is to be a tube sock, no heal turning involved, so it’s just straight forword tube made long enough for his size 12-13 foot, curve around his heal, and end somewhere around his ankle.

I am proud of my progress so far. But dh keeps poking jest at my being so slow at it. I asked him if he were knitting them how far would he have been. He replied nowhere, I’d just go buy a package of socks instead! Ugh, men.

Well today my last order from Knit Picks came in the mail: 2 hanks of “Paint Your Own” fingering/sock wool, and 1 hank of lace weight “Paint Your Own” wool. Becasue it has the closest deadline, I am working on NYC Brat’s PYO ankle high toe up tube socks, and placed all other projects on temp. hold.

I have never done toe socks before, and these are of my own design! When I am done, if there’s enough interest, I’ll see about posting a pattern.

Well dh went to the job interview this morning. It looks like he might well have the job, I’ll keep you updated.

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March -Red and Pink
April -Orange and Yellow
May - Green
June - Blue
July - Violet / Purple
August - Neutrals / Black & White

Last friday, my birthday, dh quit his job. The why’s and howcomes are just too personal for a public blog, but suffice it to say it was for the best. Monday he put in an application at the Super Walmart that we do our grocery shopping at and my parents both work at. Tuesday they called to check with his former employer, and then called dh to set up an interview. Later this morning dh has his job interview, so please say a prayer that he gets this job. Even with it being slightly less pay, since it will be steady year-round work, by the end of the year it’ll work out closely to the same income as before.

I have added buttons to the sidebar of this blog. I am trying to figure out just how to put up pictures of my own buttons for y’all, but haven’t worked that out just yet.

Well it’s rather late, and I am going with dh to the Super Walmart later. While he is on his interview I’ll be grocery shopping. We figured why make a second trip when we can combine two trips to make just one!

I am well into the 5th repeat of the “Adamas Shawl”, and am wishing that I had made mom’s out of this pattern! It is such a breaze to work.

Today With DH….sort of

DH and I drove over to the Super Walmart (SW) this morning. While there I got another little box/set of stitch holders. (I need them to do the Adamas Shawl since I didn’t have enough before.) While there I got some scrapbook stickers–a knitting Holliday Tote Swap that I was in over the past hollerdaze my spoiler sent a little scrapbook that she had decorated the cover of with little knitting related stuffs and labeled it “FINISHED OBJECTS”–to use when I get some of OTK stuff done.

Think Pink

I found for $1 little deals that said make your own fashion statement, they included a little iron and a tiny little demensional fabric paint pen. They had two statements: “I Survived”, and “I’D RATHER BE”; I got both of the I’d rather be’s. At my local Walmart I got a women’s pink ball cap. When I got home I combined these to create this:

I now have two ball caps of my very own: (1)homemade pink, “I’d Rather Be Knitting”; (2) purchased official Red Hat Ladies red, “Hattitude”.

I have another “kit” so am thinking of getting another hat and doing it. Then using the hat as a gift in one of my upcoming swaps. (Sorry about the pic, if I increase the megapixals so it’s a good pic I cannot get it onto blogger!) Either that, or getting a pink tee shirt and putting together a pink shirt to go with the cap so that it’s sort of an outfit. What do y’all think?

Zephyr Question Answered

Someone asked if I have worked with the Zephyr 50/50% wool/silk before, and the answer is yes. I have a 75% completed “Ella” (from knitty dot com) in the Ice Blue Zephyr. It makes such a sensually soft and wonderful fabric! I just love working with it. I am hoping to be able to get a 4oz ball of it in white and seeing if I can koolaide dye it to some funky color. but that’s gotta wait.