Time to catch up on all the things I haven't been posting about. Knitting is going crazy around here and I needed to show off some finished objects.
To the left, some completed socks! There's the green/blue pair I was working on for Alex. To the right of those, a pair for Alex made from some Magic Stripes that has been hanging out in the stash for a while. On the bottom, I finally made a mate for my one Sockotta sock - this yarn wasn't my favorite to work with since the cotton content makes it stiffer but now that they are washed they are so soft and one of my favorite pairs. The other two single socks waiting for a mate are my pink Broadripple socks from Knitty and a purple multicolor sock with a ribbed leg and top of foot, that makes it look ridiculously small but I promise it isn't!
To the right is my Chevron Scarf from Last Minute Knitted Gifts. I love it! However, it folds in on itself horribly so I'm trying to block it flat. This section turned out decent so I wet and pinned out the middle third of it this morning. Hoping it works like I'm imagining!Now below is the Irish Hiking Scarf I was working on, fully completed, blocked and so forth. Possibly one of my favorite knitted objects. It just turned out so neat and was a fun project to make.
Oh yeah, there's another completed pair of socks - catch is, I was wearing them while taking the pictures! These are the first pair I've made from Paton's Kroy sock yarn and I really like it. Story of me and Paton's Kroy: I went to AC Moore to pick up some pins to block a scarf with. Of course, had to check out the yarns and see if there was anything I "needed". Lo and behold, they started carrying Kroy! And lots of color selection, woo hoo! So, I had heard lots of people liked this yarn and it is very reasonably priced so of course I had to try some. (Okay, I bought enough for 3 pairs of socks.) A week or so ago I saw that AC Moore had an ad for all yarns 25% off - great, I'll go buy some more Kroy! Get to the store and there is NO Kroy!!! None! I even asked a saleslady and she said she guessed they were no longer carrying it! Well, boo hoo. Good thing I have a big sock yarn stash....
(Please pardon that taking a picture of one's own feet makes said feet look very odd...)
Now on to some pics of my favorite subjects - the boys! I mentioned in my last post that Roscoe had a surgery to remove a cyst on his back - here's a look at his big patch and stitches. He's fine now, got the stitches out the next week and has now grown most of his hair back. Earned the nickname "Patchy" for a while.
Now that many of you have received our Holiday cards, I thought it appropriate to share some outtakes from the holiday card photo shoot. You will see that Roscoe is trying his best to sit nicely in his scarf and look handsome for his family and friends. Travis, on the other hand, had to make things a bit more interesting....
