Monthly Archives: December 2008

FO: Joanne's Christmas Socks

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The first holiday FO!

Joanne's Socks

The socks are for my Aunt Joanne, and they’re just plain vanilla socks. I wove the ends in last night, making them the first official FO of Holiday knitting 2008.

Between last night and this morning, I also managed to weave in the ends on everything else that’s done or in pieces. Now I have to hit the stores for a few non-knitted things (we are not a one-gift-per-person family, we are a many gifts family), assemble both sweaters, finish the foot and toe on Joanne’s 2nd pair of socks and weave in the ends on those, and knit my Dad’s thermos cozy. Then mail it all off! Provided I don’t get distracted, I think I can make it.

Then? It’s fun knitting time again!

Tarot Card of the Day: Ten of Pentacles

Sleeves of Doom are DONE!

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While I was totally MIA from the blogosphere during my Mom’s visit, I did manage to squeeze in some knitting. Mostly because I explained that if people wanted to, y’know, have Christmas presents that were actually finished, there really wasn’t an option to take a break.

I finished the sleeves for my Dad’s sweater.

Dad's Sleeves

They’re looking good, and by the end of sleeve #2, let me tell you, I was never so glad to see something be done. I am a tad worried about having enough yarn left to do the collar and tabs, so I’ve decided to use a different but similar yarn to sew everything up. I began weaving in ends this morning, in preperation for the sewing. I hate weaving in ends, and my one pet peeve about Wool of the Andes is that the relatively short skeins mean more ends to weave in. But I’ll keep plugging along.

Tarot Card of the Day: Queen of Wands

FO and a plea for help

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So,  a while back I finished my Wheat-Ear Yoke Pullover. I promised pictures, but didn’t quite get around to posting them. So when my Mom and I decided to go to Golden Gate Park, it seemed like a good time to take some.

Wheat Ear Cable Yoke Pullover

I love the way the sweater turned out, but when I went to take a photo, tragedy struck.

Oh noes!

See that? It’s a HOLE in my SWEATER. The same sweater that is one of my favorites and I’ve only worn twice. I’m not sure when it happened; my guess is on one of the insanely crowded buses we took.

Obviously, I want to fix this, but the darning tutorials I’ve found scare the crap out of me. Does anyone have any recs for user-friendly darning tutorials? Or even a local yarn store that might be able to fix it for me? If I wind up ruining this sweater, I think I might cry.

So, knitters…help? Please?

Tarot Card of the Day: Princess of Pentacles