Spinning, Socks, and Swap

My current work in progress:

The other side of the sock is ribbing that started at the toe and will go all the way up.

Since it's so much fun and working so well, I figured I should start spinning my husband's socks:


I got to start working on my handspun socks because.... I finished the tofutsies for my husband!! He's already worn them (the day after I wove in the ends), we have yet to wash either pair (his or mine) but that will be tonight or tomorrow and I'm not (too) worried.


For SP10 we were asked to blog about where we craft. Sometimes it's in the car, or outside, or in bed, or on the couch... but usually, I sit right here:

It's comfy, I can see the tv, reach my laptop or the spinning wheel, and a have two windows right near me. The chair has enough room for one (or both) of the girls to sit with me and read.

And of course, behind my chair is a huge mess I need to clean up again (every month or two, or more often, I have to clean it out and decide what projects need to be near me and put the rest back with the main stash)

You can also see the nice shelfs that should be mostly empty. You can tell where I am in my craft projects by how crowded those are. They also hold the remotes and phone and light and fan.

Thank you for the kind comments on my husband's knitting. We are now preparing our project lists for the next couple of months and comparing our stashes with those lists... all in preparation for going to webs on saturday for the tent sale (and fiber fair)!

Nothing New

I've been working outside (mulching for about 5 hours on monday), cooking (4 square lasagnas ready today, some for us to eat and freeze, some for other people who need some tlc), and schooling (trying to decide whether or not to home-school for kindergarten next year). I've also managed to knit up the foot and turn the heel on my husband's second sock. I am in the midst of mind-less ribbing, which is just about right for me right now. I'll probably start spinning his sock yarn, and start work on another baby-bear soon. We went and played some more pool last night... lots of fun - and I think I did better! ...and even better, my wrist doesn't really hurt today, unlike last week!

Maybe pictures of a finished pair of socks soon....

My husband knits (tons of pics)

Peggy commented:
Wow!!!! A husband that knits!!!! What or what would my stash look like if my husband did the same? Hmmmm, might cause a family feud. :) The socks are beautiful and such a sweet gift.

Yes, this is a blog about my crafts, but sometimes my crafts and my husband's crafts overlap. Since he was working late tonight I ran around the house and snapped pictures of things he has knit. I'm amazed at how much has been for me.... Thank you sweetie :)



His first big project was this green blanket.


We worked together on a pair of slippers for our older daughter. (We both knit and then I seamed)


Socks, socks, socks... some for me, some for him.... and his latest pair for me


He also made me this lopi hat - the matching sweater-which-shall-not-ever-be-blocked was made by me.


This hat was for our younger daughter - very pretty noro. He also did another hat for her when she was younger - red/brown woolease. I'll post a picture when I find it (that closet needs some help) and snap a picture.


We called this 'Big Gray'. It's a Lavold design made with Lopi. He was planning for it to be big, but it kept growing. It's nice a comfy looking on him, but we keep joking about felting it down a bit.


Pi shawl with arms, made with a WEBS tent sale find - again, for me. This picture doesn't do it justice, I'll have to post another one soon.


Big cushy pillow made with Bamboo yarn, completely designed by him.


There is also his recently completed hedgehog

This is his normal craft bag. It makes me smile since it's a tool bag and says 'Craftsman' right on it. It's big enough to hold medium sized projects and it doesn't have flowers on it.


He has a small cube that holds all the random needles and such that every knitter gathers.


...and a new travel bag for knitting. It will hold a small project or two and a book or something else to do. It's currently holding the nice lacy socks that he is making for me.


His stash... the first picture is in a big basket off to the side of our room. The second picture is in a big tub under the bed. (hiding yarn in with lopi sweaters, perfect plan - he claims the lopi is all mine to make another sweater with) The only thing not included is the fact that there's more lopi in my stash - I claim all lopi is pretty much jointly owned. Most of this stash is yarn that's been left over from old projects.


And here's where it starts getting fun. Here's some yarn that he started more socks for me, but ended up deciding it wasn't working. This yarn is now mine, I just need to frog it and move it to my stash.



And thus ends the husband portion of the show... almost. While digging around and taking pictures I found an old finished object. There are two pairs of finished toe socks I made for him. t-o-e socks. four of them. measured and custom knit. yay. maybe some day I'll end up making more for him, just not right now with my present project load.



So there we have almost all of his knitting... more on my current projects next time.

Pool Injury

Last night my husband brought me out to play pool. I haven't played since I was a teenager, and that was once or twice in someone's basement. It was pretty fun once I got the feel for it, and I look forward to doing it again. Unfortunately I guess my form wasn't very good, because I woke up this morning with a sore wrist. I'm able to knit some things, but definitely not the socks I was working on. I'm taking it easy and working just a bit to keep my hands from feeling antsy. The baby blanket I'm working on is nice and loose and works fine. I have a few more birthday items to post about soon, and a couple of other posts floating around in my head... I have some outdoor stuff to do tomorrow, and some church stuff over the weekend, but I'm planning on knitting a fair amount, and trying to get those posts up! ...maybe over the next couple of days!

More pictures of socks

I just realized that I had not posted any pictures of the socks my sweet husband made for me. So, here they are...

He uses the Priscilla Dream Socks Pattern, and used US0 and US1 bamboo dpn.



He's already working on two different sock projects (both for me), one of them using one of the tofutsies given to me by my swap10 pal. (I plan on using the other one)



There is plenty of this ball of Tofutsies yarn left, unlike the pair I'm making for him (I split it in half and have a small ball left after finishing the first sock)



I already cast on the second sock. I did the first couple of rows of the toe with dpn, and now I moved it over to the circular needle. It's still a bit tight on that, but it is a lot less bulky than the 5 dpn, at least to me.



I also forgot to mention last time, I received the stitch markers I won from Tammy. Thank you!

My daughter also got into the spirit of mommy's many projects tonight, she declared the she needed a pink bunny, like her sister. She wanted it. "Start it. Start that now mommy." I haven't started it yet, but I think she's already got dibs on it when it's done.