Saturday, April 7, 2007

I have succumbed...

to the sock-knitting siren. Or at least the buying-of-supplies-for-sock-knitting siren. A few weeks ago I bought a whole book of sock patterns, and then I also bought Cat Bordhi's over-rated book on knitting socks with 2 long circular needles. And I have the Yarn-Harlot's book, which includes generic instructions for a basic sock. So it was inevitable that I would have to buy needles and yarn soon.

Today was the day! Kristen went yarn shopping in Chicago and is hard at work on a felted Rubik's Cube intarsia bag. And I'm still plugging away on my double moss stitch vest. Sigh. So I decided to stop by Let's Knit just to look at needles. Just to lift my spirits. And I ended up buying 2 bamboo size 3 needles (29" each) and 2 skeins of Patons Kroy Socks Jacquard yarn. Total damages, $28. That's a lot for a pair of socks!! That don't exist yet and may never exist!

But what could I do? I was helpless! And then I swatched, the cunningest little swatch you ever saw, 1" by 2", and it is love at first sight. The yarn is sherbety shades of pink, orange and soft green, intersperced with grey and white flecked sections.

So now this is to serve as motivation. I am not allowed to cast on the socks until the vest is done, or I might live forever with a 3/4 finished vest. So on to finish the vest ASAP so that I can experience the joys of sock-knitting! Help me God. Amen.

6 comments:

Thursday said...

No, I never did end up ordering from WEBS then. I decided to order from Knitpicks for that sweater. Normally my orders from WEBS have been wonderful and they have been very easy to work with. I'm sorry that your experience hasn't been so good.

Evelyn said...

Thanks for the response to a question on your blog.

Rhonda the Stitchingnut said...

I got your note asking for the "heart" pattern ... which I'll be glad to give it to you as soon as I find it. (it's on a single piece of paper) So I'll get back to you on that. Good luck with your socks when you start. Which BTW, are like potato chips ... you can't stop with just one pair. (justifying the $28 ... altho, I use size 1 needles & 2 and 0, 00, 000 and now 0000, Yicks!)

Evelyn said...

Thanks a bunch rhonda! You could email it to uyemuras at earthlink dot net if you prefer. (You know what to do with that address.)

Queen Amy said...

One of us! One of us!

Reve said...

don't worry once you start on socks, you'll probably never stop. they're so fun, even if(like me) you don't do them that often.