another dose of east and west

it has been quite a while since i wrote about it, but i am still slowly by surely knitting my way through Knitted Socks East and West, this lovely book:

my most recent pair, samurai, are quite lovely in every way and invoke very awesome imagery, if you ask me!  :)

the yarn is a cotton nylon blend (kollage yarns luscious), which is a change from my usual wool or wool/nylon socks, but they turned out comfy and lovely.  

(and no, those are not my hairy legs, they are the legs of my only-slightly-unwilling model/b-friend).  

hand-dyed headwarmer

IMG_2876, a photo by myriadlane on Flickr.

got this lovely chunky, hand-dyed yarn from one of my favorite vendors at the black sheep gathering in eugene, oregon. usually i just hoard lovely yarns such as this, worried that what i make won't live up to the yarn. but, this (ended up being slightly big) hat was just calling out to be knit. and yes, the tassles absolutely demanded to be made as well.

abundance of baby sweaters

'tis the season, i think, for lots of ladies i know to be expecting, so the time has been filled the end of last year and the beginning of this one, with lots of baby sweater projects.  this one was originally meant for a bundle of joy which ended up being a boy, so it is now packed away just in case anyone i know ever has a girl!  at this moment, i know 5 expectant mothers, and it turns out that the 4 who know are all expecting boys, so perhaps the fifth will be girl!

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this pattern was quick quick and lovely, all though a bit full of mistakes, so tread carefully if you decide to knit it.  of course, the designer makes this perfectly clear in her pattern notes, so i shouldn't have been surprised!

personal footprints

after making personal footprints for myself, i was completely in love with this "made to fit" method of knitting socks, and decided that the b-friend needed a pair as well.  one part cat bordhi's amazing method + one part tina's fabulous yarn = perfectly fitting socks, which are worn (i think) more often than any of the other hand-knitted socks i've ever gifted:

if i was going to make a resolution...

this would be it!  i know i have been missing for quite some time, and here is my (hopefully accurate) promise to be around more, to spend more time taking pictures, posting projects, etc. etc., because indeed!  there have been lots of projects and lots of crafts successfully completed, and totally un-documented!  so, consider it resolved.  now let's see if this resolution goes better or worse than my annual "get in shape" resolution...