Perfect socks

This is pair nine for the 52PP, and they are beautiful. They are EXACTLY the same size and my first pair knit with more than 48 sts (64 actually) and knit on five needles. I used 2.25 mm bamboo needles from Clover and Regia Crazy colors yarn. I love the colorway and can't wait for winter so I can wear them more often.




This is Sylvanus from anticraft.com. Sylvanus was the Roman god of the forest, and from where we get the word 'sylvan' meaning 'woods' or 'forest.' I started to make this bag, but I stopped because it was creeping me out. The eyes were so piercing. It was to be felted, but instead I knit a triangular felted bag from the yarn.


And here's the bag with some lovely fresh herbs in it.


I had to include the picture of Sylvanus though because I did such a great job on it even though I ripped it out. I like my triangular herb-gathering bag better.

After a posting hiatus...lots of photos

Here are some of the things I've been working on:

A make your own rhagdoll named Anwyn (gift maiden in Tolkien languages). The shop owner at the ren fest gave me some benadryl and saved my day. She's sitting on a baby blanket I made, and I knitted her shawl.

Socks, socks, and more socks.

Baby socks:

Monkey socks of different sizes. The short ones have a spare yarn toe because I ran out. The long ones are knit on 48 stitches instead of the required 64; I call them "Neanderthal" because they are 'evolved.' Get it.

Some feather and fan on 64 sts on the left (one of my favorite patterns); and a gansey sock (on 52 sts) pattern that I'm trying out with the blue yarn on the right. I took it from a student's knitting pattern a day calendar. She said, "I guarantee that I'll never make it. You can make it, show us, and tell us how easy it was, and we won't believe you." Thanks, Beth.

And check out these really cute finger puppets I found in a shop in Fredericksburg. They were so cute, but I wasn't going to pay 12 bucks a piece for them. I thought I'd take a pic and steal the idea for myself and any little ones I know.