It's here!

My Blue Moon Fiber Arts Rockin Sock Club shipment arrived yesterday - figures it would get here on my first day back to work. Here's what we got..... I was able to finish my pomatomus socks. I used STR Fire on the Mountain. They are soooo soft and cushy.
I also cast on and finished Bauble this weekend. What a fun knit...will definitely be making another!

Even dragons couldn't stop me

I was so wrong in thinking that I would be able to spend a lot of time knitting while I recovered from surgery - I have only been sleeping and waiting for my first installment of the Rockin Sock Club to arrive. It must be the medication that has lowered my resistance to new purchases. Right now I am waiting for three packages of sock yarn to arrive....

• First installment of the STR Rockin Sock Club
• Some Vesper that I ordered last week in Astro and Love Stinks (I blame this order on pre-surgical nervousness)
• Finally, some more Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock in Little Bunny Foo Foo and Lucy for socks, a random stripe tube sock kit (I went with #3), and then some Watermelon Tourmaline and Lemongrass and Chapman Springs to make the chevron scarf from "Last Minute Knitted Gifts" (I couldn't decide between the Lemongrass and Chapman Springs).

Now I just need to get back to work so that I can pay for all of it!

I started working 0n the Keyboard Biologist's Here there be Dragon socks in some Koigu I had in the stash. Fun pattern.

One pair down

I just finished my Rock and Weave socks. The buttons have been sewn on and they are ready to hit the streets.

Project Details:

Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock in medium-weight Farmhouse
Started: December 22nd, 2006
Finished: February 17th, 2007

I'm trying really hard...

to be good and not purchase any sock yarn until after I have completed at least one pair of socks that I currently have on the needles, and if I finish one of the pairs, I will then have a empty set of needles on which to cast on the first installment of the STR 2007 Rockin Sock Club yarn (can't wait for it to arrive). Speaking of the Club, I am so looking forward to receiving it - can't wait, can't wait, can't wait!

Time flies...

I can't believe that it's been nearly a full year since my last post. Things sure have changed here at Casa Purlshmurl (including the casa). Since my last posting I have (in no particular order:

• I bought and moved into a new condo - I am now a fully, fledged adult with a mortgage and everything
• started and completed a few smaller projects (a fake-isle hat, another odessa hat, a so-called scarf, a one-skein wonder shrug for my goddaughter, a cabled hat of my own design, and a diagonal stripe purse
• made little progress on some larger knitting projects (my birch shawl, my boatneck sweater in Katia Jamaica)
• knit a few socks. Notice I didn't mention anything about pairs. Second sock syndrome is alive and well.
• became afflicted with a new addiction - Socks that Rock. I cannot wait until the first shipment of the 2007 Rockin Sock Club arrives.

Here are some of the things that I am currently working on (that need to be finished ASAP as they were destined to be gifts).

Grumperina's Jaywalkers in Knitterly Things Vesper sock yarn in Midnight Knitter

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Pomatomus socks in Socks that Rock "Fire on the Mountain"

Rock and Weave socks in Socks that Rock "Farmhouse"

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the baby boy jumper in the Sandnes Mandarin Petit 0506 book for my new little cousin who is already a month old...sheesh, I better get cracking on that one

So much yarn, so little...

Time or attention span? Good question. I have been knitting socks for over a year and I only have two complete pairs. The rest are single socks. The allure of a new project is what does me in - new colours, a different stitch pattern, a new technique. Here's some of my sock yarn stash - there's some Vesper sock yarn, some Lorna's Laces, some Koigu, Opal.

I cast on today for a new pair of socks. I am using some yarn from Knit-n-Purl Zen in the Black Licorice colourway - I love it, so soft and the colour is beautiful. I am using the Oriel stitch pattern from the Sensational Knitted Socks book, but I'm not sure about the stitch pattern with this lovely variegated yarn - I think I will probably frog it and try again with my standard sock pattern in plain old stockinette.