Aran Fleck Yarn

Whew! I had bought two of the three do hickey's of the aran fleck at the store with about 15 full things of yarn. I had looked up on the red heart website, looking for the match for the yarn, and it was stating it was $2.19 per thing of yarn. I said what the heck I can take the 31 cents cut on the yarn. Well $5.00 for the two things of yarn, I look the color up on the web and got a reprieve! I was seeing prices from $3.25 to $3.99. The only difference between the stuff I have and this new stuff...Old has yellow, pink, blue, red, green flecks and what I think of is pure white. The new stuff looks more off white with tan and black flecks and a little bit more rough to the touch. But hey if my old stuff and the 10oz of new stuff can do some socks, a neck warmer, possible hand warmers and or a hat, good deal. I can always go back for the last 5 oz of yarn.

I Dunno

I am sooo tired of orange, green, and white variegated yarn and just want to get it over with. Am almost done with the first anklet sock and glad about it. Know the yarn is going to shrink because I washed my fingerless gloves and they shrunk. So hopefully I can still wear these after I wash the socks.
I went back to the store and the green yarn is acrylic and not wool. So I didn't get the yarn, plus they were slightly different in shade. But there is some Red Heart white yarn which has some flecks in that I might get, think its called Aran Fleck. I already have some of it and maybe I can make some socks, fingerless gloves, a neck warmer, and a hat to match. Maybe maybe not. But just checked the Red Heart website and if it is reasonable to the $2.19 price, I might get it. I have a feeling that it's $2.50 at the place I saw it at. So I am not sure... As I said who knows?

Hodge Podge

I scrapped my first anklet because I just totally screwed up the gusset and decided to up the size. Forgot that I had been used to knitting size 8s for my mum and forgot my feet are bigger than hers, or at least wider. Almost done with the first one. Got the stereotypical gap on one side of the gusset! Freak a duck! But I think it was because I just wanted to get the damn thing done with, so I did 1" of the leg, the heal, heal flap, gusset, and about an inch of the foot in one sitting. Not a wise thing.

Gotta go back to this place a couple blocks away. It's like a small diner in front where all the old farts go to socialize but a strange place to get knitting stuff and some other things. There is a green wool yarn I saw there the last time I was in there and really am thinking I need to go back. I mean for $2-$4 per skein, hell it's cheap. Maybe I can find a yarn winder there. Just have to look through everything. It's like going to Goodwill and finding a gold mine worth of stuff. Does that sound right?

Ankle Socks

Boy I had finished the heel, the flap and started to just knit happily along. Get an inch and a half along the foot, looked at the instructions, went oh shit, to realize that I had totally skipped the gusset. Fuck a duck! So I started to tear out stitch by stitch but decided to take the needles out and just rip. Thankfully I got close to the heal to start gusset. I am the only one who is going to wear these so I figured that I can put up with a cockeyed gusset. Was up to about 2:30 getting to the point I was pre gusset. Back is screaming and when I stopped, I had muscles in my right arm start to twitch. One bad thing was that I had switched from desk lamp to oil lamp, didn't secure the hood of the lamp, went to blow it out, hood slipped burnt the thumb part of the top of my hand and I have a nice burn/blister on my thumb where I hold needles. So think I will be using some ibuprofen before I try to finish this first sock.

Oh Happy Day!

I had finished the fingerless gloves on the 29th and promise to post a pic as soon as possible. I am attempting anklet socks that might be scrapped for regular socks but don't know yet since I have only done a 1/4" of the first sock. But hopefully they will match the gloves in some way, shape or form. Had to go to Michael's to get the correct dpn's and realized how much I hate working in retail. My mom bought a couple of things, maybe 15ish items. I was behind her. This impatient blessed witch behind me kept shifting, looking like she really wanted to be at the front of the line type of actions. She had asked if there was another cashier available. By this time I was really trying not to turn around and pop her one. By the time a second cashier came up, I turned around and said, 'ma'am do you want to go there?' I asked her two or three times and she was oblivious to me asking her if she wanted to go to the new line. All I wanted to do was tell her if she's going to open up the fat pie hole she has, then be a witch, why the fuck do you need to open your mouth in the first place? If she just waited a couple of minutes more she would have been through the flippin line!

I am sorry but I am not really good with impatient witches. I think that they should find their own freakin island and systematically bump each other off.

Anywho, I hope that the yarn I am using, which is pretty old, or oldish, isn't too thin for this pattern I am working on. Pics to come.