THANK YOU Secret Knitting Buddy! Socks are my favorite, favorite thing and look at what I got in the mail on Friday! Fantastic! I have decided to try Wendy's toe-up socks for these beauties. (Sigh) I have to put the pics in the picture album because I am still trying to find instructions for how to post pics in the body of a message. Also check out my very first gift from my Secret Knitting Buddy, beautiful stitch/row markers! Buddy, I promise to figure out the picture posting thing so that these lovely things will be posted front and center for everyone to see! Thank you also to Sandy for hosting the Secret Knitting Buddies.
What I am currently obsessing upon, for unknown reasons, is double-sided knitting. It was a major knitting fad in the 1970's. The stitch pattern is always the same, K1 P1, but the knit stitch is always the color on the front side (whichever side is facing you), and the purl stitch is always the color on the back side. You end up with an extra thick piece of fabric with stockinette on both sides, and you can knit in two colors with both sides being the "right" side, only they are a negative image of each other! Well, this made me think of Critter Knit-A-Long, and I made up a pattern with a border and a cat sitting in the center. It has proven trickier than I thought, so my lovely socks will have to wait out this obsession.
I sent MY secret knitting buddy the Blackberry Ridge Dancing Violets Sock Kit. I don't know if she likes socks, but who could resist THESE? Nanette at Knitting in Color has finished one. Okay, I bought a kit for myself as well!
Stupid batteries...enough juice to TAKE pictures, not enough to upload them. I am truly camera-challenged...off to the store!
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