Stress Reaction

The sock yarn! She is beautiful, non? All the hand painted goodness I could gather up from kpixie and one of my favorite ebay sellers! I am in love!

Between the to-die-for sock yarn, and my new sock knitting bible Sensational Knitted Socks, I will be in sock heaven for the majority of the sock knitting season (read: fall, winter and early spring here in the Southwest). Sensational Knitted Socks almost makes you feel like you are your own little sock designer. You pick the fiber and needles required to give you a pleasing gauge, then you pick your pattern (of which they have many to choose: between six and twelve for each of four, five, six, eight and twelve stitch patterns). Once you have determined those parameters, they have these nifty charts that tell you how many stitches to cast on based on your gauge and sock size. Finally, they give you step by step instructions for each section of the sock for either four or five double points, or my personal favorite, circulars! All this, and a bunch of helpful tips like how to eliminate pesky gusset holes, makes Sensational Knitted Socks by far the favorite of my admittedly limited sock knitting library!

What's your favorite and why? Be sure to comment here with your blog link so I can read all about it!

My dear husband offered to cart the kids off to school this morning, allowing me the extra time to show you this:

My Precious!

We put her together last night, and just like the little booklet told me to, I practiced treadling. Bout killed me of course, that I couldn't dive into the two pounds of the Bluefaced Leicester Top that came with her, but I am all about being the good student. So first, I will practice my treadling. She's quiet. The little wheel goes round and round. That's about all I can tell you so far.

Right now I'm off to work. And not just a regular day, but one of those long ten hour days, so my precious will have to wait a little bit longer to sink her teeth into some lovely roving.

Ya'll have a good day, too!

Who said that? Maybe nobody. But I'm saying it, about my Holiday Sox which arrived today from Lynda of Knit Together. Perfect fit, perfect colors picked just for me. Love them. Heart them. My very first socks knit for me by someone other than me! Thank you Lynda, so very much!!

Allison of Simply Socks was the recipient of the sox I knit. Talk about pressure. She seems to like them, and I sure had fun knitting them. Back to the pre-Christmas madness! See you on the flip side!!