Blue Moon STR Rook-y Socks
Oh my goodness, it’s been a year since I started these on our trip to Yakima for produce!
Blue Moon STR lightweight in Rook-y with Haida heels and toes.
One hank of STR lightweight is not quite enough for DH size 11 feet so I used extra from another hank for heels and toes.
These weigh in at 135g, they could be made a little shorter with one hank at 128g.
This year’s haul from Yakima (there’s another layer under there!):
winter onions, plums, watermelons, jalapenos, tomatoes, peaches, tomatillos, eggplants
Sock Summit 2011 Every Knitter Should Take This Class!
Sock Summit 2011! Yay!
Carson Demers‘s
Knitting Happily Ever After – Ergonomics For Knitters class is EXCELLENT!
EVERY KNITTER SHOULD TAKE THIS CLASS!
If you have ever had an ache or twinge or soreness or numbness, you will learn what it is, what is causing it, and how to prevent it.
Carson Demers is a physical therapist and a knitter, so he knows what we are doing.
He knows knitters’ moves and habits and obsessive tendencies(!) and he knows what we are doing to our bodies.
He started by asking each of us what our concerns were and then addressed all of them and more by explaining what is going on with our muscles, tendons, nerves, cartilage, bones, ligaments when we knit.
He taught us how to alleviate strain and prevent injury, everything from how we hold our knitting and sit to the environment around us to the projects we choose.
It is easier to correct injury causing movements and positions when we know what they are and what they are doing to us!
By the time class was finished I was already catching myself and learning to correct myself.
He’s funny too!
Take his class if you get a chance!
Oh! and the Marketplace!
YEEEEEEE!
So much yarn, so little time!
I finally bought Signature Needle Arts Stilettos!
Love them!
Couldn’t resist:
hazel knits artisan sock in Hoppy Blonde
Study Wrap in Shibui Baby Alpaca DK and Barbara Walker’s Dragon Skin
Dragon Skin
from Barbara Walker’s A Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns
This is a good non-curling stitch pattern.
I received a request from my DD for something to wrap up in while studying in bed.
OF COURSE, I want to support Studying.
Especially since I am paying for it.
Especially if it involves knitting.
She likes soft knits.
She likes this shade of green.
She asked for something like snake scales.
Shibui Baby Alpaca DK in color Wasabi
4 skeins from Knit Purl in Portland
knit on US6, finished size: 18″x62″
Hedgehog frittata (made with mushrooms not the mammal!)Mushroom Hunting
Spent the day mushroom hunting.
A sure sign that I was not having any luck, I started taking photos, mostly of the gazillions of mushrooms that I didn’t want.
Quick, took a picture of the sunshine, if I hadn’t looked in that direction at that moment, I might have missed it.
On down the road, tried a new spot and had better luck.
Boletes on the left, hedgehogs on the right,
and a truffle.
Don’t know what kind of truffle it is, not gonna eat it, but it was fun to find one.
on the inside
Love hedgehogs, they might be my favorite mushroom.
They taste great and they have these weird spikes on the bottom that make them very easy to identify (and inspired their name).
I’m not the only one who loves hedgehogs.
Oh right, “knitting” blog, I am swatching for Catherine Lowe Simple Couture 4.01 Hat and Cowl with CL IV alpaca silk yarn:
one big ball of yarn for both the hat & cowl
custom wound for my order!
Yakima!
We go to Yakima every year to pick and buy produce
tomatoes
made into sauce
tomatillos
roasted and made into verde
eggplants sliced and browned
added to tomato sauce, onions, beef, and spices and made into
khoresht-e bademjan (Persian eggplant stew)
two boxes of ripe peaches eaten and shared with friends and family and baked into several peach pies!
Knitting? Oh, right, knitting, I was knitting a sock in the car on long drives to and from Yakima
Blue Moon STR lightweight in Raven Clan colorway Rook-y
(darker, more black in real life)
RESIST FAIL!
Blast that Portland with their “No Sales Tax”!
I was not planning to buy yarn.
Of course I wasn’t.
I wasn’t even planning to go to the yarn stores.
I ended up with some time to kill in Portland
and the next thing I knew,
I was looking at yarn on sale
and yarn that I had admired online
and No Sales Tax
and dh said “this is good color for socks”
and and and
I was shopping with knit1frog2 which is always dangerous, somehow it always seems like a good idea to ‘go ahead and get it’, even if she is only there by txt! (some of that stuff is hers!)
STR braun’s woods
DH likes the hiking socks I’ve knit for him and he finally convinced me to knit a pair for myself:
Blue Moon Socks That Rock Mediumweight
colorway Braun’s Woods
I am still trying to decipher what a sock will look like from looking at the STR hank.
Braun’s Woods in a hank & Braun’s Wood in a sock
Took the new socks huckleberry picking.
huckleberries
The huckleberries were pretty good, not the bonanza we enjoyed last year. The blueberries weren’t quite ready, I hope we can get back up there in a couple of weeks.
blueberries
Garden
Knitting production has not been impressive lately; slogging along on the Poetry In Stitches Leaf Sweater and a pair of STR socks…
More interesting and productive is DH’s garden; we enjoy dinners including garden fresh something everyday.
basil, yummmm, we are wallowing in basil decadence lately
cardoons, these are past eating, but awfully photogenic
they look like some sort of medieval torture vegetable
or the something you’d make bad children eat
it’s actually the stalks we eat early in the season,
but Mr. Bumblebee was thoroughly enjoying the bloom
wall of scarlet runner beans,
we’ll enjoy these all winter in fantastic cassoulet DH creates
there are peas in among the beans,
I enjoy eating these right off the vine
the backside of the bean wall is all cilantro
corn
brussel sprouts
there they are, tiny brussel sprouts
blueberries, lots of blueberries, handfuls on cereal every morning 🙂
volunteer tomatillas, they planted themselves out of the compost!
some sort of squash
I love these violets, they pop up all over our yard, including in the vegetable garden and we take care not to step on them
artichokes as pretty as tasty
volunteer chamomile
handy chives
more violets coming through the cracks in the patio,
along with some oregano, which also
pops up all over our yard!
There’s lots more, tomatoes, lettuce, leeks, cucumber, peppers, strawberries, carrots, pumpkins, and the occasional stray potato.
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