Ooo Baby Knits: Something Blue...

These are my new Making Waves socks!

No, really, they are. Some assembly is still required, but they are socks. Don't you look at yarn sometimes and just know what it wants to be? This isn't sock yarn, but it really wants to be socks, and who am I to argue? Of course, yarn sometimes cries out to be something I think is silly, and when I knit it up it is silly, but you have to let yarn have it's way sometimes. Otherwise it gets belligerent and purposefully runs out when you have 1" left to knit on the second sleeve, or it lets your secret stash be found right after you've promised not to buy anymore yarn until you pay the electric bill (although I have no problem knitting by candle light. Our foremothers did, after all, so it's good enough for me. And I'd further like to add that I see nothing wrong with occasionally having popcorn, bananas, and ice cream for dinner when I forget to cook.)

I worked on two partially blue knits at the beach last week. Ahhhh, the beach. Here's the view on the drive down. I want a sweater the color of DD#1's hair.

I knit 9" of my Stripes Go Round in the car. I think I spent as much time untangling yarn as I did knitting- I was hoping to finish it. But then I'm always hoping to finish something. I have worked a couple more inches since returning home.

I also knit this kids sweater while watching the Olympics at night. I love the gymnastics. If I ever suddenly find my self 10-years old again, I'm going to take up gymnastics.

Edisto Island is a fantastic place to beach. We practically had the beach to ourselves every day, the dolphins swam by every afternoon, and Hurricane Charley hardly bothered us. Here's the view over the sound. This was taken right outside our room.

Every night the sunset was different and equally beautiful. This was our neighbor. He lived in the pond by the next building.

This I finished knitting post beach. The pattern is Wendy’s design at Wendy Knits. The yarn is unlabeled stash (Caron Simply Soft maybe?). The needles were #9 short straights. Don’t know who it’s for- just wanted to try the pattern which is very pretty. The yarn is very soft. You can probable see the face prints all over it from being rubbed.

Wendy has blogged about how to blog, and I’d like to add this suggestion. Don’t ever, ever, ever, type your whole blog entry in on your blog site. Use a WP program then cut and paste. I, for the gazillionth time, accidentally erased my entry instead of saving it. Hopefully this doesn’t happen to you, but if you cut and paste you will save yourself much aggravation and not expose your children to words you tell them not to use.

I have this one skein of unlabeled wool that wants to be a scarf next. I don’t remember buying it- I just found it stash shopping last night. Guess I'd better start one more thing.