Those socks are sooooo cool! I feel the need to purchase Socks, socks, socks to use up the LL in my stash.
Posted by diane at June 22, 2005 2:28 PMLove the sockies...very cool...
Posted by Mary in Boston at June 22, 2005 2:30 PMDid you look down the various coatsleeves? And hey--happy anniversary!
Posted by AlisonH at June 22, 2005 2:34 PMI was knitting those very same socks a while back and changed the exact same things. But it's a great pattern, very easy to memorize and thus a good walk and knit sock.
Of course I may be in the minority, although I've never knit with LL one of the things that draws me to it is the pooling of colors. I like blotches rather then stripes, but then again I'm odd.
Posted by Rebekah at June 22, 2005 2:39 PMYikes! Naked spinning sounds dangerous, what with all that could get tangled up. Good idea to not go there. And Happy GHU Anniversary to you and Joe! Don't suppose Hallmark makes a card for that,eh?
Posted by Teresa at June 22, 2005 2:42 PMCongrats on the anniversary.
I love the socks. It is making me want to go and buy some LL right now.
As for the Jephyr, they wouldn't be in the obvious under-the-bed storage units would they?
Ya got a cute acronym there, Toots. Jaeger+Zephyr=Jephyr?
Posted by rams at June 22, 2005 2:56 PMI'm drinking (very bitter, btw) Motherwort tea right now, thanks to you. (there has been a reprieve; read all about it tomorrow)
I'm so glad the LL sock yarn got a reprieve too. LOVE THOSE SOCKS. See? Today is all about reprieves.
But it wouldn't be Wednesday unless you had a smartass comment from me, and today it is this:
Perhaps the reason you can't find the Zephyr is because you're looking for Jephyr?
I don't suppose you'd believe that I am in fact Nina S, and my address used to end with... umm... whatever it was. Would you?
Oh, well. Happy GHU!!!
Posted by Amie at June 22, 2005 2:59 PMSpin wearing the mango tank! That's way sexier than naked.
Posted by jodi at June 22, 2005 3:14 PMThat sock yarn transformation is nothing short of miraculous. Wow.
About the lost yarn, my solution there is to go yarn shopping. Of course, this creates an incentive for disorganization, but when I do find the stuff, it's just like Christmas.
Flylady be damned.
Posted by mamacate at June 22, 2005 3:19 PMI really hope there is no symbolism involved in the day on which an anniversary falls. This year marks our 40th - on September 11th!
happy anniversary to you and your beloved. june is a mighty busy month for you, is it not?? chock-a-block with birthdays and anniversaries. do you take the month of july to recover from june?
the socks are lovely. i just turned my very first heel and i'm feeling rather accomplished. silly, yes, but accomplished nonetheless. i just got that book "socks socks socks" and i'm looking forward to knitting F+F socks (though I haven't a clue how to modify a pattern, so i won't.
have a great one!
Damn, if I'd realized GHUs get anniversaries, I'd have paid more attention to the calendar on the day my unindicted co-conspirator--er, I mean my partner--moved in.
The MSF total is more than double my annual salary. What power in banding together!
Posted by jpt at June 22, 2005 3:31 PMI'm all choked up over the gansey spinning. Happy GHU anniversary to you and Joe!
And I think you bought the Zephyr on the trip to VT/NH - look with the other yarns and supplies from that leg of the tour.
Posted by Cassie at June 22, 2005 3:31 PMWow! Amazing, stunning, beautiful socks! Congrats to you and Joe on another year! : ) Hooray for GHU's!
Posted by Rachel at June 22, 2005 3:37 PMBe sure to check the back of the linen closet.
And will you add Birch to the pile o'gifts if the total exceeds 75K? Because--if so--you might just see a big run on donations. (heh heh)
I hallucinated a whole knitting book a week ago. I was more than convinced that I had it, and tore the house up looking for it. It's not here, and I'm quite sure that my neighbors would have no reason to steal a knitting book and nothing else, so I evidently am nuts.
And it is an interesting phenomenon that one of us remembers WHEN you bought that Zephyr. Next time I can't find something, I'm posting it on my blog. Clearly other people have better memories than I do.
Happy Anniversary. Yesterday was our dating anniversary, and I got sushi, wine, and more wine! Hope your Solstice was just as loverly =)
Posted by Amber at June 22, 2005 3:49 PMHey Harlot - while you're looking for your Zephyr, keep an eye out for my missing skein of KnitPicks Dancing (Tap). I figure that it ran to your house to be with so many of its friends!
ps. love the sox
Posted by Teri at June 22, 2005 3:50 PMI would like to compensate for ridiculing your spelling (not apologize, just compensate) by complimenting you on your Search function. A friend was considering her yearning for the hip and glitzy -- unlikely, with a toddler and an infant -- and even mentioned wanting "a sparkly amber shawl," and your Search turned up both of the Eros postings slick as dammit. Well done.
Posted by rams at June 22, 2005 3:51 PMI love how the thicker stripes worked out on the sock heel and toe. Do you typically do short-row heels? I took a class with Lucy Neatby last winter and now can't get over how easy garter-stitch heels can be.
Happy Anniversary to you both--my sweetie's and mine was yesterday, as well. A good day of the year to have an anniversary, the Solstice. Best!
Posted by Jen at June 22, 2005 3:52 PMNaked spinning. Hmmm... Maybe that would convince my husband that I really do need a wheel.
Happy Anniversary!
Happy Anniversary. Your socks are beautiful - I need to try that pattern. I think a shawl or two sound like just the thing to combat the monotony that is a baby blanket. Fabulous gifts once again.
Posted by Stephanie at June 22, 2005 4:13 PMoh dear Harlot...
i am surprised that no one mentioned how ironic it is that not only was your anniversary yesterday, it was also TUESDAY yesterday...which means spinning Joe's Gansey..and lookee all you did! ;)
Posted by Helen at June 22, 2005 4:17 PMI am knitting the exact same socks with Lorna's Laces, although in a different colorway! How'd you do your heel? I like that bullseye effect that's happening there.
Ooooh I agree...but are you talking about the way LL stripes? I have that exact same colorway and I tried several patterns with it and only found it stripped and not pooled when I did a SS sock with 60 stithes around. In fact it was perfect. Now I know another pattern that will work!
Posted by Shelley at June 22, 2005 4:31 PMI love the socks. I am making a pair of socks and I want to make a heel like that. Can you advice how or wear to find instructions for those short row heels??? I have the majority of the knit sock publications. Thanks muchos gracias senorita for showing such beautiful things.
Posted by dreambee at June 22, 2005 4:36 PMOh my Gawd!!! I *never* win anything! And how did you know that my shawl progress was limping along at an abysmal speed, due to my serious lack of anything appropriate to mark it with?? I mean, I *could* be using little rounds of leftover yarn or twist ties or something to mark my repeats, but this yarn (Handpaint from Artisan Wool) *demands* to be treated in a fashion worthy of its' station. That is probably how I found myself in sudden pssession of some rosewood circular needles......Now there is a bright light at the end of the shawl tunnel (or maybe that's just the sun finally coming out again in Central NY)
Posted by Karen (Godfrey) Meuler at June 22, 2005 4:45 PMOh, I love those socks.
Posted by ShelbyD at June 22, 2005 4:53 PMFor what it's worth, I suggest if there's any spinning in the nude to be done, your best bet may be a drop spindle.
I leave it to you to come up with the naughty puns and jokes with that advice...
Posted by roggey at June 22, 2005 5:04 PMI love that your anniversary is on the solstice! Happy, happy GHUiversary! That ever increasing TSF total is amazing -- then again, so are most knitters I've met . . .
I love the feather and fan when it's done in Lorna's Laces - I just finished my first ever socks in the "jungle" colorway and love them! Yours look awesome. I think I need to get a copy of that book. Because, yeah. I need more stuff to knit. :-P
Okay, instead of spinning naked, how bout this? Y'all should do a 40's style pinup calendar using your loyal cadre of knitters decked out in lingerie. Pose 'em knitting and/or spinning. Sell 'em and then donate the proceeds to MSF.
Posted by Rainy at June 22, 2005 5:14 PMGHUs are good. Keep it up.
Posted by Lordhutton at June 22, 2005 5:22 PMI have been looking for your bool since it's release and you will be happy to know that today I found it in Kamloops, BC at Chapters.
The only downside of this is that you are going to be in Berkley, CA in early August and I was going to ask my dad to stop by there and see if he could get a signed c opy for me. I was willing to forego the signage to have the book right now! Going to go read now. Lovely socks!
Posted by KellyO at June 22, 2005 5:23 PMLovin' the socks, Steph! and Happy Anniversary!
Posted by Reenie at June 22, 2005 6:00 PMHappy GHU for yesterday! I thought it was today but today is CAP's birthday.
I've done some sassy stripe LL in a plain toe-up with a broadwater ripple top. One has a jaggy yellow stripe running around it and the other, despite being the same number of stitches doesn't. Weird. I'm also making a *thrummed* mitten for me out of homespun! (I dont think I have enough yarn to make two mittens :-( )
OOOOO!!!! My mittens in print! I am so excited I can barely read. I yelled up the stairs to Claire to come see the blog, and she said "Did she talk about me?"! She is so cute, and you're right, Steph, about scarves being a "gateway" drug - she has now finished a peach-colored bikini and is starting a Morehouse 'nother scarf. I had to do the crocheting on the bikini, though.
Oh,yeah, the mittens, they are more red than my monitor shows, and I love them, too. If I didn't already have 3 or more pair already . . .
RRROOOAAARRR!
I love your name for your relationship. It makes everything so clear. Happy day, dear ones.
Posted by Ellen in Conn at June 22, 2005 6:10 PMNo fair. I want a godless heathen union too!
(congrats...many more happy years...)
Posted by claudia at June 22, 2005 6:17 PMMy sweetie and I have always used the phrase "happily unmarried" but I kinda like GHU better...
Thanks for the new phrase and congrads!
Posted by Cadi at June 22, 2005 6:23 PMDo you have your gansey pattern picked out yet?
I knit one for my husband out of Alice Starmore's Fisherman's Sweaters, I knit "Cornwall". It is a one-piece wonder. Hangs so nicely. I covet it every time he wears it. Do you know of any bloggers who are knitting ganseys? So few people do.
First of all, congrats on the GHU! That's awesome and so sweet that you spun some more yarn for his gansey. One day we will see knitting on that thing, I'm sure. ;-)
I love the pattern for those socks and if it works well with Lorna's Laces yarn, then I must get it. So cool.
Posted by Wanda at June 22, 2005 7:07 PMThe socks are beautiful. I like what you did to the heel and toe.
Ask the Nina S. whose e-mail used to end in centurytel.net to drop me a line. One of my e-mail addys ends in that too.
Happy Knitting,
mk
Love, love, love those socks. I've never taken notice of that pattern in Socks, Socks, Socks. Now I've got to go grab it off a shelf. Is that LL "stripe" sock yarn you're using or a regular LL variegated? Seems obvious that it's a stripe, but you never know.
Posted by Amy at June 22, 2005 7:18 PMHappy (belated) GHU Anniversary! Love the socks. I'm still working on the pair I started at TNNA...along with the mohair poncho...felted bag...stash blanket...art fiber scarf...
It seems I too have an attention span problem when it comes to knitting!
~ Christina
Posted by Christina at June 22, 2005 7:26 PMHi Steph! Thanks for sharing the stitch markers. They were so much fun to make (I've made an additional 150 - so if you need more, give a yell) and I'm so proud they went to such a wonderful cause! Keep on knitting . . and I can't wait for more words of wisdom.
Posted by Sharon F. at June 22, 2005 9:18 PMHappy anniversary! Why does a GHU sound so much more exciting than than the "blessED" ones? Love the socks :) And BTW, why do you always seem to finish your myriad of projects while I have several projects on the needles? For years at a time?
Posted by Rebecca at June 22, 2005 9:19 PMCongrats to you and your hubby! You're both lucky people.
His sweater yarn / colour look wonderfull!
Have you tried the pollworth / silk blend from Rovings (www.rovings.com) yet? I just spun up some and oh lord it's lovely to handle! Easy to spin and very soft.
Have a great week and have fun with lace!
Danny
Happy Anniversary! The socks are great.
Posted by Amy at June 22, 2005 11:09 PMOh great Harlot, what kind of toe do you use? I'm trying to find a nice, neat toe that doesnt make me want to throw things when I'm done grafting.
Merci!
Posted by Bobby at June 23, 2005 12:27 AMLovely spinning there, a lot of love in that bobbin.
I finally got your book (it was backordered) Thanks for making me neglect my laundry, dishes and the mitten.
Seriously, it is a great book, and I want to thank you for verbalizing a lot of feelings I've always had about knitting but couldn't put into words even to myself. Especially the "don't feel guilty".
My hat's off to you.
Barb B.
love the socks!!!! while i was off lien i had a real nice smile in may after goign to the library and finding a flyer that had an add for your book in it! i was like hey i know that author i read her online!!!
was pretty kool:) hope it sells well for you!
Posted by minnetta at June 23, 2005 12:56 AMHappy Anniversary! I have Socks Socks Socks so I think I clearly need some LL. Hmmm.
Posted by Kat (in NH) at June 23, 2005 8:41 AMHappy GHUiversary!
I'm going to have to dig out SSS to work up my LL now. I'm loving the way yours came out, though the striped heel and toe might be a bit beyond me.
Good luck on the yarn search. Did you check over there, behind that? No, the other thing. The one on the right. No? How about the doohickey on the left? See, told you it'd be there. ;)
Posted by blueknitter at June 23, 2005 8:49 AMRe the lost yarn.... have you looked in your underbed storage unit????
Posted by sherry at June 23, 2005 8:52 AMSo nice to see that the Lorna's is behaving itself. I was with Norma when she was looking for a little something for you and recommended the colorway since I'd worked with it before (only in "Angel", her Angora/wool blend) with success. I think those nice long runs of white/undyed yarn make Seaside especially sock friendly. I may have to finally break down and invest in that sock book!
Posted by Theresa at June 23, 2005 10:01 AMHappy GHU anniversary two days late. How cool to have your anniversary on the longest day of the year. It must mean long lasting happiness.
I've been meaning to donate to TSF, thanks for reminding me to donate soon.
Posted by erica at June 23, 2005 10:05 AMI have so much fun reading your blog I never even thought about comments until today. Sheesh.
I must admit I am working on my second pair of socks but this will be the first I finish *wink. I dream of taking them everywhere, but I always end up dropping my yarn. Your socks rock. :-)
Why is LL such a drag to work with?
Posted by Rooster Hill Farm at June 23, 2005 10:44 AMOMG! You've ended the LL nightmare! I LOVE this yarn, but the pooling/flashing is wigging me out. I am going to go and buy the SocksSocksSocks book today! Thank you!
And I STILL have the Latvian Mittens (autographed)for you to give out to the generous MSF people. Let me know where to send it!
Posted by Amy Lu at June 23, 2005 11:25 AMSteph-
I love the socks - what did you do to the heel so it doesn't look so flappy?
Posted by TrickyTricot at June 23, 2005 11:27 AMThe socks look great! This was my very first design and I'm happy to know people are still enjoying it. Since then I have done a ton of socks with LL's yarn and love what it does in a sock. Also, you just had a birthday followed by your anniversary. I reversed it - wedding first and birthday two days later.
Posted by Judy Sumner at June 23, 2005 11:40 AMI love the socks! I finished a pair myself using that same pattern not too long ago (pic on my blog). I can say the pattern also loves Fleece Artist yarn (then again, which pattern doesn't?)
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