Yukon Leaves Socrafice has been thrust upon the altar.

They are on the blog and they even have a bit of red in them, too. Whoot! Now for the charity knitting for animal shelter. My vet takes them to Arizona.

Only the toes to go on the YukonLeaves sockrafice socks!

And then on to the cuddler. I think I'll start another cuddler right after that and definitely get the trekkerXXL socks cooking along. I'll post pics late tomorrow on my blog. KC this has been fun. Thank you!

Update: I tried to watch a movie I like too much while I was knitting and that meant a frogged toe and lost time. I never learn....

Hatraficing

Okay, I have been hatraficing, cardificing, ponchoficing, but my poor widdle sockrafices are languishing in my knitting bag.

Do I feel guilty, you may ask.

NEVER, because I have polished off a couple of balls of yarn from the stash, including the baby teri for the nb hats for the county hospital, the alba for Rowan's cardi, and others. My stash is getting smaller a bit by bit, and I am feeling less embarassed by the sheer size.

I do think that I need to put everything onto an excel spreadsheet though. It's just too hard to find THE yarn I YeARN for.

On the needles right now: my poncho that requires 8 balls of thick and quick (boy, don't that take up space!), a hat for coworkers toddler with the last ball of something knit doubled, and a lone languishing Lenten sock, and my cardi that has also been languishing on the needles, but that's okay. With 4 projects on the needles, one is bound to languish a bit.

Coming up on the needles: Two batches of yarn that I bought for DD, including some Jelly Beans that I plan to stitch buttons on like beads, and a few skeins of a cotton. The original plan for these was cardis, but I may actually make little dresses out of them....jumper like ones.

Hats are just socks for the head, right?

For some reason, socks just haven't managed to make it onto the needles the past week or so. On the other hand, two hats for The Ships Project and another for myself, all out of stash leftovers, seem to have appeared on my knitting stand. Thus the title on this post. How's everyone else doing? Are we having yarn shop withdrawal symptoms yet?

Not a sock in sight!

Okay, having determined that current stash is ALL sock yarn, and most of it from (ahem) Paris, I felt that a Lenten one-time splurge was necessary. I am crocheting baby blankets for the preemies at the local hospital (at least that's what I think the project is, it might be boarder babies). I picked up the "Pound of Love" ball of hugeness yarn in that lovely aqua green at A.C.Moore during their 1/3 off yarn sale, and I'm halfway through a darling baby throw. Then, I went back (shame!) and got yarn for two more projects, along with instructions. And if it takes me beyond Lent to finish them, I will. This is almost as much fun as knitting socks!

-- susi

Tip-Toe Through the Patterns

The last time I could make it to Knit Night Mistress Kelley taught me how to make a Turkish toe. The time came to pick up stitiches around the square and I couldn't undo the provisional cast on. Silly me ripped out the whole thing and started reading some of the million other things I found on toe-up socks. I found what looked like clear directions on the Net; Wendy's Toe-up Sock Pattern. Then I read Twisted Sister's Sock Workbook and Simple Socks. I learned how to do a cool provisional cast on with a crochet hook but I'm throughly confused about the rest of it. The Wendy's pattern looks like hourglass toes but I'm doing something wrong with the short rows. Maggie Righetti was no help either. I think it's time to go back to the Turkish toes.