I MADE SOCKS!

I still can't believe I am making socks.  Here are my first two pair of socks, mine and Franklin's.

Sorry Swooze!  You are not Franklin this week.....again!  LOL

 Mine!  And my very first!

 This was a tough shot.  We had to stand close, hang on to each other, bend backwards without falling.....AND take the picture!

 Of course, the dogs wanted in on the fun.  (look at his wicked skinny legs.....)

Hey Dad.....I could eat the socks for you if you don't like them.....they will be tasty I am sure......

Frank's socks.  My second.  This pair striped, the first one that was too large pooled and looked like camo socks.  Go figure.

Socks? Yes!

They are looking like socks!  Yes!

Closing in on the toe on both of them.  I also bought some yarn to make a pair for Frank.

They are looking real!

Today I am making some strips from my scrap boxes and putting together some project bags.  I bought a metal ruler to use as the closing, but I think Frank decided it was his and put it in the tool shed.

I will never really know which one it was, so I think I have to go to Harbor Freight and buy me another!

Sock Report - you will be glad to know I went back to the class

Yes, I went back to class.  And I am glad I did, I turned the heel!

Man, was I excited!  I am now revisiting the idea that everyone I know should own a pair of my socks.......however that could be the endorphins talking.

This is what I started with:

 I am loving those stripes!








This is what I ended with:

See the heel?  Catherine was laughing at me, I was so excited to have that heel work out for me!

Knitting.......Wasn't a Total Disaster

Well, I found something out about myself.

I am a klutz and can't remember 5 seconds from the past.  That was determined in this knitting class last night.  I had to concentrate REALLY hard to keep the knit two purl two rhythm going.  If I listened to the soft banter around me, I lost what I was doing.

And I kept forgetting to flip the yarn over and thus would end up with an extra stitch on each side.

And don't laugh.  This is two hours of hard, back breaking, labor intensive, thoughtful work.  I have to go home and go to bed.
 
So in 4 weeks this:

Will become a pair of socks.

Do you want to lay money on it?

This Is a Bad Bad Thing and Day 3 of 365

Day 3 is not bad, but what I am doing tonight is!  LOL.  I am starting a sock knitting group here in town.  Aughhhhhhh!  Do I need another thing to do?  NO, but I am dying to make socks for some stupid reason.  All this talk in blogland about socks, and I want to make some.  I have this crazy vision of making a pair for everyone I know.............yeah, right.  I will be lucky to make this one pair!  So don't hold your breath!

I think I have worked out the linking thing, I will get that done, most probably tomorrow.

I was reading a blog of someone who is creating a sketch of something she bought that day for her 365.  She is nearly finished with her year and looks forward to a second year.  She says, I thought I would tire of this thing by about 3 months, and here I am in YEAR TWO!

Day 3 of the 365: Journal of Creativity was an interesting challenge.  Here is my result.  When I was making the Soar! Quilt's airplanes I folded up a couple of sheets of computer paper, we used to call it typing paper.  I took pictures of it and printed them out.  Really what I did was nearly like Chloe's head yesterday and the kangaroo.  I drew the lines from the 2D piece and made a paperpiecing pattern out of it.  Here are the paper airplane and the quilt block.

I am rethinking the
chevrons for a border,
what do you think?

My Design Wall has a couple of things on it.  One, the Soar! quilt needs to be trimmed and sandwiched.  Meanwhile I have the large Kangaroo quilt that needs to be trimmed and the binding put on.  That one should get counted this week, both in the Stash Report and the Quilt Your Quilts In June Challenge numbers.  Right now, PattyA and I are running neck and neck and I need a powerhouse swing to run her over!

The other thing that needs to be done is the cleaning out of my room.  Frank says there are some large boxes in the garage I can have.  I will place my stuff in those boxes and clear a way so I can re-align the shelving in the room   I wanted cute before, now I want functional.  I can use the existing boards but I need the shelving brackets.  I can get that at the hardware store this week and have my dear hubby put it up next weekend.

Yes, that is the plan.....for now.  Socks and shelves.  And smashing PattyA!