Knit My Dog

The only recent knitting progress:

My second pair of Jaywalkers. I love this pattern and love wearing the socks. This one is with a picot edge. My first time trying a provisional cast on, and boy, did that kick my butt! I think I tried it three times before I got it just right. Now that I have the technique down, hopefully sock number two will go a little smoother.
The yarn is Socks That Rock "Fire on the Mountain". Being a devoted Grateful Dead fan, I HAD to buy it as my first STR purchase. I love the yarn, and I LOVE the colors. It really does look tie-dyed in places, reminds me of a bright tie-dye T-shirt.
The picture does justice to the colors - nice and bright. I love the striping on the leg, the heel looks ok, then the pooling starts. I was getting a little bummed out about the pooling on the foot, but then decided that it has a nice look to it too; another sort of tie-dye feel.
I started them on the plane to Bonaire, didn't knit one stitch on Bonaire, then knit some more on the plane ride home. Since being home, I haven't had much knitting time.... I picked it up the other night and started to get nervous about this:

The ball of yarn is getting smaller quickly. With each stitch, I kept thinking that I won't have enough yarn to finish the pair.
So I pulled out the trusty digital scale and started weighing.

      
Jaywalker in progress plus circular needle = 43g.        Ball of remaining yarn = 87g.

One circular needle = 3g.

Now for the tricky part:
87= Remaining yarn
43-3=40 Yarn used
87+40=127 Total yarn
127/2=63 Yarn per sock
63-40=23 Remainder of yarn available for sock #1.
Are you with me still?

So.... With The leg, the heel, the foot decreasing, and about 1/3 of the foot done, I have used 40g of yarn. I have 23g left to use up until I'm half way done with the yarn, and I think it won't take me anywhere near 23g to get to the toe.
So onward I knit!

On this bright morning Moebius was lying in the sun.
I had to take my pictures in the sun so he moved for me.
After the photo shoot, he moved back into place in the sun.
Doesn't he look content with the yarn?

Posted by Brenda at 01:21 PM | Permalink

Diving in Bonaire.
Where's that? Well, they call them the ABC islands: Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao. Southern Caribbean, off the coast of Venezuela.
We went diving every day, saw some beautiful creatures, and I didn't get much knitting done. Started a Jaywalker on the plane ride down, and did a little more on the plane ride home. Other than diving, we did lots of relaxing, ate great food, and enjoyed the warmth!
Now it's back to April in Maine. Warm one day, freezing temps the next. It WILL warm up some day, it happens every year. I just lose hope when everything is still brown and there's no signs of buds or flowers. Oh, I do have green shoots in my garden - daffodils I think!

Posted by Brenda at 05:21 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)