… I truly do miss my brain the most.
As I pulled into Tangle last evening to teach a sock class, I realized that I’d forgotten all of my class materials at home. Oops.
Alice loaned me a package of stitch markers. My wonderful students rallied and let me borrow their books and rounded up a few pencils. Fortunately we had done all of the “sock math” last week, so the lack of calculators didn’t cause too much of a problem.
Last night the sock magic happened as everyone knit back and forth, back and forth for awhile, and suddenly… there was a heel. I never get tired of the look of delight on people’s faces as they realize that they’re actually knitting a sock — look! There’s a heel! — and it’s not that hard at all! 🙂
A small addition to the collection was waiting in the mailbox at home after class.
Gentle reader, I can’t begin to tell you how much I have lusted after this yarn. This is Blue Moon Seduction in the colorway Covelite. Even though I had to take an icky artificial-light picture, the colors are fairly true on my monitor. It really is that deep chocolate, purple and mauve.
With 50% merino and 50% tencel, it has a wonderful sheen. I can’t wait to knit with it!
Oh… I could just eat it up!
I think I’m going to have to teach a sock class very soon!
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I’m loving the sock class, Judy! I know I’m a sock newby, but your methods make a lot of sense and seem much easier than others. I hope you’re going to write a sock book or produce a sock pattern soon. Because you truly are the best Sock Sensei. I don’t get to knit on my socks until tonight again. My fingers will tingle all day while I must wait. ~~~~~~~~
1Remark from Lori Rode — Wednesday, 2/7/2007 @ 9:55 AM
LOVE you new addition! can’t wait to see it knit up. i was recently on blue moon website an was wondering about this yarn. sounds smooth and slick. very jazz…
2Remark from hpny knits — Thursday, 2/8/2007 @ 5:05 PM
In 13 days I will be buying some of that gorgeous yarn for myself. I will try not to copy you & get the same colorway, but it may be difficult because it is STUNNING! Ohhh… I’m getting excited just thinking about it.
I’m so jealous of your students. I can’t think of anything better than learning how to make socks taught by you! I’m SURE you could definitely be a help when I’m trying to convert all these obnoxious cuff down patterns. I just can’t always figure out the math section on the heel section. I use your “tangled up” pattern as a guide, but I must be doing something wrong. Everything “looks” fine, but this time I ended up with about 6 or so too many stitches at the ankle setup row, so I just combined every p2 to a p2tog. I know I’m not explaining it well and I know there’s probably an easy solution, but my brain hasn’t wrapped around it … yet. At least I have your pattern as a guide though. Better than nothing!
3Remark from ~Kristie — Friday, 2/9/2007 @ 12:34 AM
Hey, my friend HPNYKnits send me your button! And browse my website, I guess I can easily join the Yarn-collector crowd. Thanks for the nice Button 😉
4Remark from Garngamen (Sigrid) — Sunday, 2/11/2007 @ 3:02 AM