Love Your Library - February prep

February's book is American Sock Knitting by Beth Moriarty.  The book's divided up into five sections:  Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and Northeast.  Each section has a story about a historical location in the region.  It has a recipe inspired by the area.  And it has a sock patterns also inspired by the area.  The patterns are by a variety of designers.  I think I got the book originally to do the Jersey Turnpike socks by Heatherly Walker.  Maybe I'll do them later this year if I get stalled for ideas.

I'm going to do Appalachian Trail (knit the socks, not walk the trail).  The yarn is the delightful Unicorn Rainbow Fight! from The Cyborg's Craft Room. 

Spotted on Ravelry

Doctor Ewe.

I've been working on stuff but nothing's finished.  It looks like I use up a lot more yarn in the 64 Colors afghan than it calls for.  I ordered on more ball of Kureyon which should do the trick.

Stitch Along Wednesday

Ooops!  The new pattern for the mystery knit along came out today and I don't have it yet.

I worked on the Van Gogh mini cushion and I think got the mistakes fixed.

I stopped working on it mainly because the yarn for the 64 Crayons afghan appeared.  Here's the first half.

The colors are a little stronger in real life.

The project bag fabric is sitting untouched with the fabric for the Doctor Who messenger bag.  They whisper, "Cut us out.  Cut us out".  I do not listen.  Many pretty balls of Noro are speaking louder at the moment.

Adding to the queue will be a re-knit of the French door curtains.  Gravity has made them much too long.  They could both stand to be a little wider.  I'll start them when I figure out where I stashed the leftover yarn from the original project.  I had an idea of where that was, but I was wrong.  I think it is with the catnip cheeseburger I crocheted for my cat for Christmas.  Gone, baby, gone.

Stash Saturday

I got the Noro Kureyon for my 64 Colors throw:

It's almost as good as being a little kid and getting a 64 color box of crayons.

I aimed to misbehave and signed up for not one but two yarn clubs.  They alternate for six months.  One's Doctor Who and the other is Firefly.

Stitch Along Wednesday

1.  This week's afghan mystery squares.  The plan is to use solid greens in whatever shades I can find in my stash.  The other color should be a multicolor with pink or other flower colors.  I found a bunch of leftover Wisdom Poems yarn in a multi color so that one will appear for weeks to come.  So will the Avocado, since I had a couple of balls left over from the Kaffe Fassett afghan.

2.  Van Gogh mini cushion cross stitch.  It needs a bit of frogging and recounting.

3.  I want a Russian dolls project bag.  I knew I had some fabric and I managed to dig it out.  I think I'll combine it with the embroidered denim fabric.  I got a lot of it for not very much money when a fabric store closed.  It is about time at least a little bit of it was used up.

I better get back to work and finish something up.  The yarn for my 64 Colors afghan will be here today or tomorrow.

Love your Library - January edition

My first book/pattern choice did not work out.  I decided to move on to a different book.  I chose Think Outside The Sox.  I saw a display of some of the socks at Stitches South several years ago.  I had to have the book to find out how the leopard print socks were made.  The book is a compilation of winning designs from a Knitter's Magazine contest.  There are a lot of excellent patterns in the book and I may start another one before the year is out.

I decided to use the skein of Monet's Garden yarn.  This was best suited to a plain vanilla pattern.  I am unable to do a plain vanilla sock.  I have been known to fall asleep while knitting boring socks.  I chose Wandering Vines.  The vines would've shown up better with a plain solid color.  I am unable to knit a plain solid color unless there are other plain solid colors with it.  That's why I ended up with this.

Crafty games

A person on a Doctor Who thread in Ravelry is talking about craft games.  There's Nerdopolis, which seems to use a setup like Nerd Wars.  There's on for Star Trek fans called Starfleet Fiber Arts Corps.  It looks like it has some similarities to Nerd Wars but less competitive.  I'm not throwing rocks at Nerd Wars.   The pressure I felt to do as much as I could for my team came from me.  I'd like to play a game where I wouldn't get myself wound up so tight.  This might work.  Anyway, the person in the thread is talking about setting up a Doctor Who game like the Star Trek one.  I think I see a fibery adventure in space and time about to happen.