Twinkleberry

They are done. I mean the Twinkleberry socks. The first one took me a long time. It went with me to Washington DC and also Denver. The pattern was easy to memorize. I finally finish The first sock on Feb 22 on my first day off and I started to work on the second sock the same day. I was able to sit and knit knit and knit all day long. By Monday I finished sock #2. It felt great completing the sock so fast. I think the best part was learning how to do short row heel. I was able to do it with out looking at the direction for the second sock. I love short row heel. No more heel flaps for me. I think its great that every sock that I knit I'm learning something new or just getting better at what I know.

On Monday I start working on another sock. This one is Elegance Sock designed by Anni Design for Sockamania. This one has a cable on each side of the leg. Now I get to figure out how to do a short row heel on this sock. Will come you updated on how the socks comes along.

Twinkleberry

Valentines Day

Brian and I made it to Washington DC for Valentines Day. I left Wednesday on the all-nighter to Dulles airport. I was in coach middle seat, its not the best for sleeping but I got on. Brian was flying up from Jacksonville, Fl Thursday morning, which his flight had a 2-hour delay. That was ok it gave the day time to warm up. Once we were together we made our way to the the hotel. We took the Washington Flyer to the meter stop and hoped on the meter to Union Station. Our hotel was 2 big blocks from Union Station and about 3 big blocks from the Capital. The weather was great the whole time we were there. If you were in the wind watch out. You will wished you had a hat and mittens. By the afternoon the wind was gone and it was sooo nice to be in the sun. We walked every where. We hit all the tourist spots and had fun. By the end of the day our feet hurt.

On a knitting side. I'm working on Twinkleberry and it called for a short row heel. I was not sure I wanted to do a short row or just do a normal heel that I know how to do. I decided to do the short row heel, so I went to google and looked it up. I found two different sites and found out what I wanted. I did it and love it. I most likely will never do a heel flap again. That is it for now.

Socks of kindness

I finished the Seahawks socks of kindness on Friday morning. It is a very easy pattern to do. I'm glad that they are done and out of the way now I can start on another pair.

I started working on Twinkleberry a lace and cable sock. The pattern is by Knitzi at http://www.knitzi.com/ under patterns. I using Mamma Llamma bamboo that is 60/30/10 merino/bamboo/nylon in the colorway of Night. I don't know who these will be for. I guess I will just wait and see what I feel like doing with them. They may just might walk into my sock drawer.

Other than that not much has been happening around here. Brian is leaving tonight on the either the Chicago or Washington DC allnighter. He is heading for Jacksonville, Fl to see his Uncle in St. Mary, Georgia. So I will have plenty of time by myself with just to knit away. If all goes well and the flights look good on Wednesday night and I can get the day off, I might be hopping on a plane and meeting up with him in DC to send Valentine's Day with him there. I will keep watching the flights to see how the they look. We will just have to wait and see.

Update

On my days off I went to Renanissance Yarn and I bought more yarn for hats. They where surprise that I did not buy any sock yarn only yarn for hats. They even had the new Nora sock yarn and Colinette Jitterbug yarn too, but I was good I did not even buy. They also told me of the new items that they were getting in next week.

I gave up on my fingerless gloves for some reason they were not working for me. I started working on another pair of socks. This pair is called Seahawks socks of Kindness. I'm using Hazel Knit Yarns in Home team color. The pattern is called Socks of Kindness. The pattern is very easy I'm already on the foot actually today I should be doing the toe. Then again I'm working on the afternoon shift and working the weekend. On Saturday I had one crew checking in around 3:00 pm and the next one was not until 10:00pm so there was plenty time to knit and then there was Sunday and it was about the same for the crews coming in. Today the last crew checking in is at sometime in the 3:00 pm hour. So I hope to finish today.

Knitting at Work

I'm happy that I have a job that will allow me to knit when my work is done. Last week I was able to finish Snape. There was not much happening at work so I just keep knitting. I think they turned out good. I haven't wore them yet maybe tomorrow. I got another head cold and I could really think on my days off so I couldn't think of what to knit next. I tried one thing and then that did not seem right then I tried to knit something else.

I ended up knitting my Fake Isle hat on Friday. I finished it today, 1/2 hour before the end of my day at work. Everyone thought I was knitting a purse, nope wrong a hat. I think I got it done just in time, boy it was cold walking out to my car. No one has to wait to see me in it. Now decision of what to knit next, a pair of fingerless gloves or the Seahawks socks. I guess I will flip a coin.

New Year

I hope everyone had a fun and safe New Years Eve. Brian and I went over to some friends house to watch the fireworks after I got off work. The next day was spent driving around to make sure the deal Brian found was a good one. We bought a new car!! Brian found us 2003 Acura TL with 38,000 miles in Pearl White. It is just like the Black one. I've named the cars Salt and Pepper. We are going to share the new car, but it is mine. We don't want to rack up the miles on it so that is why I got it.

I used my gift certificate that Cherina gave me for Christmas. It was to Blue moon fiber arts for $25. It was one of the best gifts that I got. I order two skeins of yarn.

The one on the Left is Falcons eye and the one the right is Lunasea. They both look better in person that on the computer. I don't know what I will make with them, but I still wanted to have them.

I'm still working on my Snape socks. I've got the first one done and I've started working on #2. There are other projects that I want to do, but I'm not going to start them until Snape is totally done. The problem is that I am having is with my hands. They have been hurting real bad. They joints in my fingers mainly my right hand hurt. So I haven't been doing much knitting which SUCKS. I better stop typing so I can get back to knitting before they start hurting again....