Monday, October 24, 2005

One down…

Okay - here’s the first sock, completed about an hour ago:

I used this Basic Baby Sock pattern with a couple of changes.  The pattern asks for a plain, stockinette heel and I decided to use the heel stitch because I think it looks better.  I also decreased from the heel gussets in the standard way rather than the way written in the pattern which didn’t make much sense to me.  I kept the spiral toe decreases because they’re rather cute :) Now to cast on for the next one!

I’ve been thinking about hats - and thank you all for your comments, suggestions and pointers; they’ve been a great help!  I have a few ideas to go on with and one of the things I’m considering is combining yarns.

A strand of worsted and a strand of sock yarn would come close to bulky weight, I think.  While this isn’t really what I wanted, I think these two would combine well and look nice.  An added benefit is that it would take me less than a year to make the hat :) But I’m not completely decided just yet.

The gerbils are growing at a rapid rate (as most babies do) so we are off north today to get them a larger tank.  This will be their permanent home.  Unfortunately, since it will be glass, I won’t be able to get the kind of pictures of them I’ve been getting with the smaller tank which is acrylic.  Acrylic seems to swallow up the glare of the flash.  Glass will just reflect it.  But there will be more pictures, one way or another.

We’ve also been playing Guild Wars.

To my surprise, this is great fun (my usual, pedestrian preference being something much less involved - like Pokemon Puzzle League) and we are having a grand time exploring, fighting battles, doing missions and just gawping at the scenery.  This is a beautiful game, gorgeous graphics, lovely music, and the story is very complicated and involved.  At the rate we’re going (couple of hours a day) we’ll probably finish it in about three years :)

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1. Awww, what a cute little sock! Now I have to admit that I’m now imagining gerbil babies crawling in and out of it - maybe you could make them a festive yarn tube to play with?

   Posted by Kathy  on  10/24  at  01:40 PM
   Location : Southern California



2. Kathy - Oh GAWD - what a cute idea!  But since gerbils chew everything, I’m not sure it would be healthy.  A length of yarn going down one of those little gullets would be a serious problem, I think…

   Posted by Robbyn  on  10/24  at  03:02 PM
   Location : A bubble or two off plumb...



3. i think that’s really an enlarged preview pic of either snap, crackle, or pop’s little christmas socks- when do we get a peek at the tiny vests and santa caps? (dodging flying needles now!)

   stay happy-

   Posted by  on  10/24  at  06:35 PM
   Location : here waving at you..



4. Barb - The image in my mind is so cute I can’t stand it but getting them to hold still so I can check vest lengths and cap circumferences is wishful thinking.  But I could knit them Christmas stockings and fill them with sunflower seeds :)

   Hmmmm....

   Posted by Robbyn  on  10/24  at  10:14 PM
   Location : A bubble or two off plumb...



5. Hi Robbyn, I just did some combining from stash too—a space dyed mohair called Impressions with some Cascade 220.  I started and finished a mitten with this yesterday!  The pleasures of knitting at 3+ stitches to the inch, huh?

   Posted by Rob  on  10/25  at  12:33 PM
   Location : snowy (!) central PA



6. Rob - Yeah, plundering the stash does have its advantages from time to time :) My only real concern is how the yarns will work together.  They should be fine but you know how it is - you never know for sure until you try it.

   Posted by Robbyn  on  10/25  at  02:37 PM
   Location : A bubble or two off plumb...



7. Have you ever seen the pattern for Cameron’s cap? I think that is a great little hat for babies because the ears are covered. Love that baby sock...the color is great.

   Posted by Maureen  on  10/25  at  06:33 PM
   Location : watching the lake rise....



8. Maureen - I did look at Camreron’s Cap.  I’m planning on making each hat a different style so it’s a possibility! 

   The socks are Opal - a ball I bought a few years ago and just never got around to using.

   Posted by Robbyn  on  10/25  at  08:23 PM
   Location : A bubble or two off plumb...

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