I’ve been working on my Cloverleaf sock – it’s going much quicker than boring old stockinette or rib socks 🙂

I’m liking this sock – I may even finish the pair before the 31 July deadline! But then again, I may get second sockitis. It’s not unheard of arround here 😉
I am also developing an obsession for this scarf.

I really like it. I have the pattern and yarn in my elann shopping basket, and I keep going back and looking at it. I need a new project and new yarn like I need a hole in the head, but I like it 😉

Well, I finished DH’s socks. They only took 3 months or so. 🙂

And so then I started my cloverleaf socks, the first ones from the six sox knitalong. The second pair should be started on August 1. Hahahahahaha. 🙂
Anyway, I started the first ones, and I’m using the hand dyed sock yarn I got off eBay a week or two ago. Nice yarn 🙂 I think this pattern would be better in a plain colourway, though. But I didn’t have any plain sock yarn, and seeing as I have enough sock yarn on hand for 20 pairs, I didn’t think I’d better order anymore 😉

I’m liking the pattern, but I changed it a little according to some notes in the knitalong. I don’t have skinny calves, so I added a few stitches. It’s a simple 6 row repeat.
This is the only knitting I’ve done. I’m still peeved at my gauge isseues, so I’ve not had the nerve to pick up any knitting where gauge really matters. 😉

Next to no knitting to speak of, so I think I’ll talk about reading. I used to be a voracious reader, but I find now that the only time I get to read is in bed at night, and I tend to fall asleep after a few pages. I’ll read almost anything, but I like horror, true crime and sci-fi/fantasy best.
I joined the Anna Karenina readalong, but I’ve kinda stalled on that at the start of Part Three. I’m not disliking it, but I’m not loving it either. On the other hand, I received “Song Of Susannah”, the lastest Dark Tower book by Stephen King last week, and I read it in four days. The final instalment comes out on September 21, and I’m dying to get my hands on it.
Today I borrowed “Queen Bees and Wannabes” from the local library. It explores teenage girls, their behaviour, cliques, boyfriends and the like, and apparently helps the parent to understand. Can you hear me whimpering? Even after all these years I don’t know that I’m ready to revisit all that! I think I’ve blocked out most of High School. 😉
So that shall be my reading matter for the next week or two. Then I’ll pick up Anna Karenina again!
I’ve had a few queries about Twinky’s continuing good health. I tried to take a picture of her today, but she wouldn’t stay still long enough – this is all I could get.

Rest assured, all is once again well in Bunnyland 🙂

Look what came in the mail today!

Yet another eBay buy. I bought it to encourage Em, who is having trouble staying interested enough in anything to finish it. It claims that even if you’ve never knitted anything you’ll be able to make these. Each toy is made of garter stitch squares. They are all knitted in 8ply (DK), and are apparently easy.
Gauge won’t matter. If my row gauge is short, I’ll have shorter fatter toys – more cute, right? MWAHAHAHAHA.
I may knit every damn toy in the book! 😉

Of course, I have to knit the polar bear!
I have been knitting on DH’s sock, I am determined to finish it this week. I have joined the yahoo group for the six sox knitalong, and looked at the patterns. If I knit socks for myself, the gauge doesn’t matter too much. And surely even I can knit six pairs of socks in a year. Well, ten and a half months, the knitalong started back on June 1. Oops. Maybe I can use some of my sick sock yarn stash 🙂
Never fear, I haven’t given up altogether. In fact, I just bought enough Jo Sharp yarn on eBay to make myself a sweater.

Let’s revisit my normal whining.
I hate gauge. I hate it, detest it, and abhor it.
Today I flung my knitting across the room in total frustration.
I knit a gauge swatch from the Classic Elite cotton. After playing about, I got gauge on 4.5mm needles. Very unusual. Usually I have to go down a size to get remotely close to gauge, today I go up a size. Okay, whatever.
I dutifully washed the swatch (And I must admit that it washed beautifully – no shrinking, no stretching, laid out beautifully, no rolling, Dry Clean only not necessary!) Gauge still spot on. So I cast on the top. You start at the point, and do your increases until you get the required number of stitches. My gauge is way off. The top should have been 14 3/4″ wide at this point. It was over 16″ wide. This is where the flinging came in. I am now getting stitch gauge on 3.25mm needles, but my row gauge is short.
Why oh why oh why do I have so much damn trouble with gauge???
I think I’ll stick to scarves.