Spring?

Today is much different from Saturday. Look! Grass! (And my favorite orange shoes and my broadripple socks.)I've been on spring break. So far, I have written a quiz, gone running, took a coaching clinic, went with The Collar to get our taxes done, gone for a bike ride (today--14.2 miles with a nasty headwind all the way home), and worked on the socks. I haven't done as much knitting as I expected to do, because I have been really busy. I haven't even been my alter ego on Guild Wars.

Further evidence that spring will come is all of the plants growing. If the weather holds, I'm going to ride my bike tomorrow, too. Even if I have a nasty headwind on the way home.

I'm ready for spring now.

It's March. Time for spring! Enough of this white stuff, already! However, maybe this means we won't have a late freeze like last year.

(I'm on spring break now. Really.)

Cast On

I have two works in progress right now. The Domovoi Shawl (I guess it counts--I haven't frogged it yet!) and the dishcloth cotton miter square baby blanket are the only two at the moment. No socks. That's terrible!

Thus, I have cast on for another pair. Here is a picture:The colors are reasonably close to the actual color. I love knitting socks with self-striping yarn, because you can tell easily that you are making progress. This yarn is KnitPicks Felici in Hummingbird, and it is so soft. I knit my FIL a pair of socks out of the same yarn, but in Pebble.

Guesses on whose feet these will be?

Socks!

I finished a pair for me!

Started: February 20, 2008
Finished: March 6, 2008 (all of 15 days)
Pattern: Dublin Bay by Ryan Morrissey
Yarn: 2 skeins of Wildfoote Luxury Sock Yarn, Handpaint in Ragtime colorway
Needles: size 1 dpns (I used five), but I probably should have used size 0s. I guess I'll need some.

These were fun to knit. It's a really easy pattern, and the lace panel is simple enough that it doesn't compete with the variegation in the yarn. They are a bit too big, though. I went down to 64 stitches for the foot, so the foot's fine, but apparently I knit loosely. The leg is kind of baggy. I only got 8 stitches to the inch rather than 9.5, and I didn't check gauge, so it's my own darn fault. I'd rather have baggy than to tight, any day!They are happily drying upstairs on my handy dandy blocking rack/dog crate as we speak. I won't get to wear them tomorrow, but they'll be ready soon.

In like a lion

Today was a pretty good day. Once the whining was done (The Wiz, Game Boy and The Collar), there was time to go out and play. Game Boy went off to a friend's house, and The Wiz did this:Game Boy used the scooter to gain confidence and balance before he began to take off on his bike, so we're hoping it will work the same way with the Wiz. (He's got really skinny little arms and legs, doesn't he?)

The Collar and I ran in the same room this morning, ran errands (grocery shopping together sans children is actually not too bad), and had lunch together. Then we came home and I paid bills. Yuck, but I always feel better when it's done. (We paid one off, too.)

My current knitting is getting close to complete. Here they are, in twilight glory:I have finished the foot of one, and about half of the foot of the other. They are going to be loose on the leg, though, because I probably should have knitted these on 0s, not 1s. They'll be okay.
I'd rather have slouchy socks than tight ones, any day. I do like the yarn for these. The question is, will I be wearing them soon, or will they wait until fall?