Let’s talk about socks baby!
(apologies to Salt ‘n Pepa)
The first Stashbuster spiral is done 🙂

Changing the colours is enough to keep it from being a boring old stockinette sock, and makes the knitting seem faster. I’ve started the second one, but haven’t got far yet.
For any of the Aussie sock knitters out there, Lisa has started a Yahoo group called Sockmonsters. It’s a group aimed at Australian sock knitters. 🙂
Em’s cardigan continues. I’ve reached that stage of the sleeve where it just doesn’t seem to grow no matter how much knitting you do. I measured it last night, it had 3 inches to go, I knit about 50 rows 😉 and I still had 2 and a half inches to go.
The plain knitting must really be eating at me – I’m considering a Fair Isle sweater for DH. I’ve never knit Fair Isle. Haven’t a clue how to strand the yarns, no idea what is beginner Fair Isle (is there any such thing?) and what isn’t, and I don’t know where to go for a good kit at a good price. Steeks scare me. Perhaps I should start with a hat or somesuch. Ease myself into it. That way, if I stuff it up, it isn’t such a big deal 😉
Let me know if you know a good beginners kit, or some other good place to start.

I’ve done very little knitting – In fact I’ve done very little of anything. I’ve been laid up with a migraine since Sunday.
I am prone to migraines, although I’ve not had one for ages. Unfortunately, when I do get one, I feel ill, I need to sleep and it affects my vision, making it hard to knit, sew or do much of anything.
Feeling much better today, though 🙂
Valentines Day was nice, although we don’t tend to make a big deal out of it. DH bought me a lovely single red rose, and I baked a heart shaped cake, and iced it in pink.
Anyone who knows me will tell you that it is a Big Deal for me to bake a cake 😉
Plugging along on Em’s cardi sleeves. I’m totally over this project, and will be extremely glad when it is done. The first stashbuster spiral sock is nearly done.
No plain stockinette for a while after these projects, I think 🙂

When I went back to Spotlight the other day to see what was left in the discounted yarns, I took Emily with me. I’ve turned her into a yarn snob. There was some pretty pale blue boucle yarn. Yes, it looked very pretty. She picked it up, dropped it immediately and yelped “It feels like acrylic!”
The rainbow lorikeets are screeching, the sky is gray and gloomy. The housework is calling.
I’d rather knit!

In an attempt to break up the monotony of the endless stockinette in Em’s cardi, I cast on for a stockinette sock 😉

The sixsox Stashbuster Spiral sock. Admittedly, I’m not stash busting 🙂 I’m happy with it so far, it’s relatively easy, and I like toe-up socks. In fact, I had never knit a sock cuff down until the first sock in the knitalong. And I love the colours 🙂
I’m ready to start the heel now, which will be pink.
Guess what? Guess what?
We’re moving to a new host, so the server go-slow problems will hopefully be eradicated. And we get an extra domain name with the new host, so I’m getting my own domain name!
I’ve been piggybacking on DH’s domain since I started blogging, because I don’t think he thought I’d stick to it, but I will be moving to http://randomknits.net/ Not sure when yet, DH takes care of all that stuff.
It’s like moving out of home on your own, isn’t it? 😉
So apparently we might be down for a few days sometime soon, but if we are, I’ll let you all know. 🙂

Can you see me doing a Happy Dance? 🙂

Wendy from Catknits sent me a Gift Certificate to Elann, so I can get some sock yarn. That doesn’t count as yarn buying does it? It’s a gift 🙂
Perhaps I should just hang on to it, and keep an eye on the stock at Elann, and if the stock goes low, order it, and if it doesn’t, I can order it on Easter Sunday. As if it’ll last that long 😉
Thankyou, Wendy!!
So I think we’re due for some updates. DH’s weight. Well, it seems that I may have been overreacting. Although we have only been watching his weight for 2 weeks, his weight has remained pretty steady. It goes up a little and goes down a little, but it’s generally staying around the same figure. I even went out and bought some scales so that he is using the same scales every time. But I’m still making him watch it until the end of the month. Thank you everyone for all your support, it really meant a lot to me 🙂
Knitting!
Em’s cardigan was travelling along well. Was.

I got this far, and I only had 80g of yarn left. Not nearly enough for sleeves. So I rung up Nundle Wool Mill on Monday and ordered 2 more balls. They arrived yesterday, and they seem to match pretty well. There was no dyelot on the cone to match, but these look alright. I will knit the sleeves in 2 rows of wool from the cone, and 2 rows from the new balls, to minimise any shade differences.
Happy Friday!