Warm Feet

I may let him go out without a proper jacket, but he'll have warm feet. Thankfully, his shoes will cover up the dizzying stripes. I put a lot of effort into matching the pattern in these socks, and it worked... up until the very end. The yarn: Schoeller Stahl Fortissima Colori (from the stash). The needles: US 1 Addis with the magic loop. The pattern: Yankee Knitter basic socks.

These socks are going to be my submission to Lollygirl's Soctoberfest - my first KAL. Thanks for the encouragement Lollygirl!

Jake is a good sport about wearing stuff that Mommy has knit for him. He only has a few ground rules: all sweaters must have hoods (I sometimes ignore this one); No bulky or superbulky sweaters (too heavy) and all buttons must have either a baseball or a soccer motif. All of these are requirements I find reasonable for an eight year old.

I'm a Lurker

I admit it. I've been lurking around your blogs for years and never felt worthy. I wondered if you would care about what I have to say or want to see my knitting. I feel dirty - dirty and guilty for peering through your windows quietly for so long. I'm sorry and I'm ready to share, if you'll have me.

Why knitters identify themselves as such always bewilders me, but I do it too. Do people who quilt describe themselves as quilters before they remember to tell you that they have a child, or what religion they subscribe to, or what they do for a living? I'm a knitter. Sometimes I wish it weren't so. I'm a sad, pathetic, yarn-buying, pattern-whoring, single-focused knitter. I also have an eight year old son, and a business, and a dog and a cat, and a husband. The dog was here first, then the child, then the husband, followed by a matter of weeks, by the cat.

I suppose that by way of introduction, that ought to be enough and we can jump feet first into the knitting. That's what you're here for anyway. So let's start yesterday at Rheinbeck. This is what I did yesterday:



The Spinners Hill Shop merino is new to me. I love finding new yarns. This yarn obviously wants to be a sweater for my blue-eyed boy. I'm open to pattern suggestions - I think it'll knit at around 5 sts per inch. All of the others are going to one day be socks. As a matter of full disclosure, there is already one skein of Toasty Toes missing from the basket and ribbing up nicely into a pair of socks to wear under my "loose" clogs. The basket (thanks to everyone who stopped me and commented on it yesterday) is a Blessing Basket purchased at the Katonah Yarn Company

Rheinbeck was beautiful. I think it was my fifth consecutive year there and I'm never disappointed. Although, this year, the crowds did make it tougher to navigate, and to eat.

Thanks for reading and if you come back, there will be photos of finished objects and works in progress and more stash to wade through. And thanks for sharing all of yours over the past years. Hopefully, I can keep you company in the morning over coffee like you've done for me, every now and again.

-Amy