Hey I Thought This Yarn Would Pool!

So I decided to knit along with Judy at Patchwork Times for her Pooling Sock Challenge.  If you don't know about pooling, when a knitter uses multicolored yarn, sometimes multiple rows of one color stack up and create a "pool" of color.  It can look pretty funky.

I dug out this lovely skein that I had been avoiding, because I was so positive it would pool.

I was positive I would end up with a big yellow blob down my leg.

I pulled out a cute but super easy pattern I had bought to aid Hurricane Sandy relief.  The pattern is called Oh So Beautiful Socks b Judy Sumner.

Here's my start:

No pooling! Not one bit.  I think maybe the yellow is too short to pool.  I love this sock so much though, I guess I am going to continue even though it is not pooling.

edited to add a photo of my yarn with a calendar for proof of cast on:

Also, last night I started this adorable premie hat.

These will be my carry around project and I will see how many I can make in April to donate to project Linus.  I already finished my April hat for Hats for Sailors so I am good to go.

Linking up with Judy at Patchwork Times.

Wordless Wednesday

Feeling the Sock Love

new sock book!!! a photo by magscrafts on Flickr.

So I already mentioned here in this space before, that the knitting bug has hit me hard in the past year. In January, I purchased the book knit.sock.love. This is an absolutely beautiful book full of sock patterns, with amazing artistic photography for each sock.

I then joined a group on Ravelry that is focused on knitting each and every of the 19 (yes, 19!!) sock patterns within this book. We start one each month (I tend to stay up until midnight and cast on as soon as its legal.) and we have 2 months to knit each pair, so there is overlapping of the schedule.

In January I knit Hedera:


The sock of the month for February was Monkey. I loved Monkey so much that after I finished this pair:

I cast on this pair:



Now in March, we started Thelonius. I made this set of stitch markers to keep me on track.



Here is my cast-on photo of Thelonius:
I am much further along now, working on the heel of that sock, praying I have enough yarn to get me to the tip of the toes.

So my sock frenzy has gotten me working on some knitting related stuff for my business as well. I offer stitch markers for sale, and I made this banner and placed an ad on Ravelry to drum up some more business for my stitch markers.



I also have plans to make some project bags and needle rolls, partly to stop my mad addiction to carrying everything around in zip lock bags. I am working out a design that will let me easily hang my project bag on the arm of my chair while I sit at football practice, but also let my buddy Ruth hang hers from her belt while she stands at auctions and knits. (It was Ruth's attempt at hanging her project off her belt in a ziplock bag that led me down this path originally, so she gets free prototypes to test out.)

So watch this space for product updates, as well as reports on my knit.sock.love knitalong progress.

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