Jewel Wyvern Socks are done!

Here they are:
I'm happy with them overall. They fit nicely. It wasn't until I had started the second sock that I thought about the fact that I could have done the pattern on the back of the legs - duh!

I've put in more time spinning Embarrassment of Riches, but don't have a spin in progress photo for you. I've added some length to Beach Glass Basket Rib Hand Towel. I picked it up this morning read the stitches and started work, few rows later looked like there was something slightly off. So I'm ignoring it and continuing. I think it's just the freaking nature of this particular yarn to be a pain in the needles.

William needed to do some PCC stuff this afternoon, one of them a scheduled orientation type thing. So this meant that I sadly did not get to go knit at Insomnia this afternoon. No group knitting this week darn it! I've been having headaches this week to go along with the migraines I was having this weekend. Ugh. Since I had wait time and didn't want to hang out on campus, I went to The Knitting Bee and checked out the selections. I was tempted by some sale cotton yarn but didn't immediately buy and another lady came in and bought them up. Oh well, they weren't meant to come home with me. I resisted getting any sock yarn too. I made a spot for myself on the couch and pulled out my Plymouth Happy Feet leftover (~140 yds) and started Mitt Envy. They are supposed to use 116-120 yards of fingering, so I should have enough to make a pair and use up something I've had in my stash and wondered what the heck to do with.
I have a bad picture of my progress so far:

Before I'd left I had worked for a bit on Beach Glass Basket Rib Hand Towel:
I strongly dislike this yarn. I think I can read the stitches, after picking it up and then working on it to find that things are 'off'. I'm not sure exactly how, but I'm just going to finish it as is.

ETA: I forgot to mention that Deep Blue Sea Sinuate Scarf is posted in the blog at Knit/Purl. I wasn't wearing the right color of shirt to show it off, but they insisted on taking a photograph (can you tell I hate having my picture taken?) and there it is.

Saturday fun

After we got rolling today we hopped MAX for a ride downtown. My purpose for the trip was to acquire another skein of Jewel Shibuiknit sock yarn. I needed it for the second Wyvern sock. Here's sock one all done up:



While on the trip to Knit/Purl I started, once again, Beach Glass Basket Rib Hand Towel:


I also picked up Midnight Shibuiknit sock for future fingerless gloves and some Habu Soft Merino Lace (looks like thread and comes on a cone). I'm going to use the Habu on a few Ice Queens I think. It has almost 750 yards to I should be able to get at least three Ice Queens out of it. You can check my stash photos if you want to see them.

Last night since I'd finished the one sock and couldn't cast on for the second one and get it going I picked up the Habu Bamboo lace. I'd started the Peace of Mind Shawl but wasn't too happy with it. So I frogged it, kept the project listed, because I'd still like to do it, just in a different yarn. Then cast on for the Cleopatra Wrap from Sensual Knits. Found that there had to be an error in the chart, so checked Ravelry and sure enough there was but by that time it was really late and so off to bed.


This afternoon has been a flurry of photo taking so that I could update stash and projects with photos. Not a lot of knitting happening, but we have movies planned for the evening so lots of time for it then.

After we got done with Knit/Purl we walked over to Cacao for some drinking chocolate - yummy! Then walked down Burnside to Saturday Market and wandered through it for a couple of hours of free fun.

Deep Blue Sea and Jewel Wyvern Socks

I've finished up Deep Blue Sea Sinuate Scarf. I didn't do the fringe because I'm not a big fringe person. It's all blocked too. No photos yet because it was too late by the time it was done blocking to take good photos. ETA photos:


I was having some serious cramping and fighting off a migraine this afternoon and didn't want to be around a lot of people so didn't go to Hagen's for the Wednesday night knit group.

So instead I cast on the Wyvern Sock with the previously mentioned Jewel Shibuiknit. I'm liking the yarn so far:

I'm not going to do the p2, k2, on the bottom of the foot though. I think it would be slightly uncomfortable to stand on personally. I sometimes can feel my other hand knit socks when I'm standing in them for long periods.

So now I'm trying to resist the call of the merino/silk fiber to start spinning up one of the colors....