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\"Desert
\nI don’t get to knit much except during those times when there’s not much else to do that requires my hands — so I knit when the PC locks up (which lately is a lot and knitting keeps me from trying to get it to work by pressing keys, thus making it worse) or when watching TV or DVDs, when we have company and just sitting and talking.\u00a0 But somehow, to my surprise I managed to finish a few things that have been hanging around.\u00a0 You know how it is — a bedroom project, a living room project, an office project, and one that fits in the purse for travel.<\/p>\n

First, I finally finished these socks made with Red Heart’s Heart & Sole with Aloe yarn. As usual with self-stripping yarn they’re fraternal socks. The colors aren’t quite right but they’re a beautiful orange, burnt red, purple, brown, yellowish that reminds me of desert sunsets. They’re just my basic sock pattern only with a broken rib pattern on the leg section. Only since I really don’t like doing purl, the purl band only shows on the inside and the outside has some interesting bumps and texture that I really liked.<\/p>\n

\"BabyNext, I blogged about knitting the Baby Fan Mitts of a Paton’s Silk Bamboo yarn in a previous post<\/a>. The pattern is a free Ravelry download designed by Morgan Wolf that you can find here<\/a>. The pattern is very clear and the mitts are beautiful and dressy without being too fussy.<\/p>\n

I had plenty of the yarn left over so I decided to make a matching cowl to go with the mitts. I used a pattern from one of Barbara Walkers’ books and started knitting. It took a few tries to get what I wanted but here it is drying. (Don’t let the color fool you — this is the same yarn as the Baby Fan Mitts and in the same color — for some reason I just couldn’t get the same color in the pictures. Actual color is a very pretty blue-teal — closer to the mitts photo than the cowl one.<\/p>\n

\"Fan<\/p>\n

I think it came out pretty good and I’m pleased with it. I’ll try to get a picture with me wearing it at some point. I’ve been thinking of writing the pattern up and posting it but don’t know if there would be much interest. Would there? Should I?<\/p>\n

But because now I didn’t have anything but sweaters on the needles, I needed to start another pair of socks. These are a beautiful green\/gold\/red\/yellowy tweed using Paton’s Kroy Socks yarn.
\n\"Green-gold-red
\nI haven’t yet decided what to do with them. So, I’m making a plain foot and will do something with the leg portion when I get there. I’m debating making these as a Christmas gift for someone so I’ll have to see how the foot looks before deciding how to do the leg. Right now I’m thinking a plain 2×2 knit purl ribbing or some other simple ribbing pattern.<\/p>\n

I’m rather pleased with myself at doing so much over the past two months. But then the fibro has been pretty bad and knitting is something I can do even if I can’t really think straight as long as it’s just plain knit and socks are mostly that. Luckily when you’ve been knitting for years even using double pointed needles to do socks is second nature.<\/p>\n

I signed up for the Rockin’ Sock Club<\/a> by Blue Moon Fibers this year. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do and I finally managed to hit the enrollment period with the money to do it (just got paid for a freelance gig). I’m really looking forward to getting the first shipment of yarn and patterns. If I can keep up with the socks from the club I should manage to keep my feet warm next winter and hopefully a couple of the pattern will make great gifts for those who keep asking me for socks for those family members who keep hinting for socks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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