Socks for meeeee

Socks for meeeee, originally uploaded by J MoRo.

Look at what I just finished knitting. These socks are absolutely scrumptious. The yarn I used is leftover tweed yarn from the cable sweater I knit for JRo last year. And is a bit itchy for socks.

The pattern is a little complicated to follow, especially with Brother Braveheart, and Captain Courageous sitting their furry buttocks on the pages as I knit.

Captain Courageous even got spooked one day and lept from the open magazine, over my knitting basket, and unto the floor. Ripping down the magazine page - almost from edge to edge. Thank goodness for matte Scotch tape. Which fixed that up. Nothing like a pattern that is well loved.

More photo's to come, as I still need to photograph the completed versions. This one is from the magazine.

Composite Wristwarmers

Wristwarmers, originally uploaded by J MoRo.

Ta Da.. aren't these lovelies, just beaudacious? I work in an office that is cold in the winter, spring, fall and summer. Imagine, the air conditioning required to make an office too cold in the summer. Shameful. Just reread that and realized I sound like an old lady.. I'm not... really...

These wonderful little beauties will be my wrist's best friends. The yarn was much thinner than was called for in the recipe.. so I had to improvise. I used the gauge pattern from Anne Budd's book of recipes.. and cast on 60 stitches, knit the garmet's according to the standard mitten recipe, but followed the fair isle charts from Interweave Holiday Edition 2007. Left the bobbles off on the ribbing, since the thin alpaca yarn was a bit hard to manage at that stage.

All in all - I LOVE THEM. And am getting many envious looks from my colleagues. I will have to knit versions that I don't love so much, so i can bear to give them away.

Balls of alpaca

Balls of alpaca, originally uploaded by J MoRo.

Well really 4 balls of alpaca, and 2 balls of wool. The wool and alpaca are so fine, that after knitting the Tropical Vest I had almost full balls of every color left over. What to do, what to do?

Thank goodness for the Holiday 2008 edition of Interweave Knits.

I have a plan, think you can guess what it is?