OG FINISH SOCK.

[camwyn]

Og finish both sock.

That's right, last night as I was on the phone with a friend, I got out my tapestry needle and grafted the last few stitches together. I have officially finished my first pair of socks. They're Bernat (I think) acrylic yarn, worsted weight, in the variegated 'Burning Embers' colour scheme. This translates into mostly brown with some reddish and green bits. I intend to bring them with me to Alaska this September.

My next goal is to finish the Pima silk sweater I've been working on (don't let the name fool you - the yarn is 85% cotton, 15% silk). The body's all done, so all that remains is the cap sleeves and mandarin collar neck, although I can't do the neck until I block. Both the neck and the sleeves have cables in, but since I've already done the exact same cable pattern in the body of the sweater itself, that won't be a problem. After I've finished the sweater, I'm going to try socks again - something in a lace this time, most likely. The new pair will be donated to the homeless or the Jersey Battered Women's Service or something like that; just because a woman is homeless doesn't mean she couldn't use something attractive to wear, and if she's trying to get a decent job she'll need something to wear to the interview, right? Right.

After that I am not sure what will be knitted next. I have some alpaca-based boucle yarn, and a yarn shop near me that's doing a 40% off sale on its discontinued varieties, and a terrible urge from the voices in my head to buy some knitter's graph paper and attempt to copy the dragon pattern from the embroidered panel of my (sadly, ruined) Chinatown purse. I say terrible because I know damn well it's a prelude to 'great, you've finished a new purse, now let's see about KNITTING AN ENTIRE DRAGON ROBE MUAHAHAHAHA'.

Comments

[just-the-ash.livejournal.com]

Og make birdy nifty black knit thing someday? Not have to be big thing. Birdy not big like Irish elk.

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[camwyn]

Hm. Og think... hm. Og have pattern for other sock, many different sock, could do black. Og also have pattern for hat, scarf. Og think maybe Og need learn make glove or mitten. Og also have pattern make slipper. Take pick.

Birdy got perfect idea

[just-the-ash.livejournal.com]

Og, I got it! I trace both hand on paper, send you paper, you make me glove or mitten. Me hard to fit on account of got little teeny hand.

Me make Og art in return. Hunter with aurochs maybe?

Re: Birdy got perfect idea

[camwyn]

Sound good. you got color you wanna see? pattern? Fiber set off allergies so Og should not use?

[mephron]

And then after you knit the dragon robe, you knit a second one out of Nomex and then install a flamethrower for that truly draconic effect....

[camwyn]

Actually, by the time I finish the dragon robe I expect to be well over the madness event horizon and accelerating, so there is a fairly good chance I will attempt to hunt down Donnie Yen and stuff him into it.

[almeda.livejournal.com]

Gronk jealous. Gronk keep thinking, maybe try sock, and then never do. Have skinny-tiny yarn for sock. Kind that makes stripes by itself so stupid Gronk not have to weave fifty ends in. And yet Gronk still not try. Gronk sometimes try to pretend the two sweaters waiting for sleeves are in line in front of socks, but that never stop Gronk from Yet Another Lap Blanket.

(Yes, I'm catching up on some VERY OLD entries. Gronk depressive for six months, not read nobody's journal at *all*)