No Monkey-ing Around

One Shibui Monkey Sock.  Sitting all alone.  I’ve made a little deal with my knitting…..

Finish the first skein of yarn on the Wallaby, and do a few repeats on the second Monkey Sock.  Sounds fair to me.  And that’s about 6 inches of sweater you’re looking at right there (I know, your eyes are screaming for you to cover them, so boring, all that stockinette).  But I’m queuing up some episodes of Scrubs I haven’t watched yet and I think I can make my way through the rest of that there skein before dinner time.  I found the neatest little knit calculator whilst I was searching for a way to “increase evenly”.  I’m so bad in things mathmatical, that I’m always figuring and coming up wrong with these little knit-quations.  So I did a google search and came up with that nifty little thing – I just popped the number of stitches I had on my needles, the number of increases I needed to make and the resulting number of stitches and it calculated how often I had to make an increase and how many stitches in between – exactly.  I know this sounds like simple math to most of you – but apparently it’s not or else this knitting gift would not be around.  And I know that without tools like this – I would be grumbling and groaning and eventually figuring out what the hell I did wrong – but it was so nice to skip that part and get right to the knit of it.  There are some other neat tools on the site that I haven’t had a chance to check out yet, but I’m planning on it.  A big, fat Thank you goes out to  The Knitting Fiend for that calculator. 

The oldest is back at college this afternoon – I dropped him off with a knitting care package for his girlfriend.  I had a lot of fun putting that together and I hope she can use what I sent.  Of course, no pressure, just gentle encouragement (grin, grin, grin).  We have to spread the knit when we get the chance!

The youngest is at  his girlfriends and it’s just the DH and I, two porterhouse steaks with baked tatoes, and asparagus. 

And the Wallaby.

Where I Want to Rip My Eyes Out

Or maybe I’ll just go all CATatonic.  That is the humble beginnings of my DS2’s Wallaby.  And though I love him, and want to make him anything he asks me to knit for  him (within reason), do you see the DARK blueness of it?  Do you see the blinding potential?  Do you SEE it?  Three inches of K1, P1 Ribbing to do before the miles and miles of stockinette.  Thankfully, that will be done on #8’s so it should go fast.  But it’s so solidly dark.  Needless to say, I won’t have a choice but to be knitting this when the good light is available.  Which means night time is other knitting time.  And looky – did you notice the new Harmony needle tips.  Pointy Schmointy – I love them!

Oh, and DS1 – home for the weekend and wanting a hat.  Without a brim. Or rim.  Or anything fancy.  And I would love to make another Shedir, which would match the scarf I made him last christmas.  But he just doesn’t know what he wants.   I may have to make a Knitters Executive Decision on this one.  So, two Christmas knits.  That’s not too bad.  As long as no one else chimes in and makes any requests, I may just be finished early. 

Knitting Group today – we attracted some attention from other knitters and I think we may have two potential new members.  It’s always nice when people come up and ask.  It’s nice to have the interest, share the craft and em-biggen the group. 

The first Shibui Monkey is done, I did work on the second sock at group – but now – it’s Wallaby time.