Knitting....but quietly

I know I am a very private person, and having a public/social job (sitting on a reference or circulation desk all day) I can be a bit peopled-out by the end of my shift. I don't want to talk or share or engage--its time to crawl in a hole and recharge! Maybe knit, maybe work a room escape game (darn you Jay is Games for the great game ideas!) or even try to go to bed before 12.

So now the blog is in the "its too much effort to be social" category. Sorry!

I still have love for the yarn. I am back to cranking out socks after a short hiatus. Nearly done: Anastasia socks in STR Mediumweight, Dutch Canyon. They are lovely; for the nearly first time with STR I am not getting pooling or flashing in the sock, just short bursts of color. Strangely enough, one sock did pool (but consistently, and it worked with the YOs.) The other is not pooling at all. Odd. And LOVELY.

Just begun: Firestarter with YarnAhoy's Sweethearts. This is a lovely dye job by friend and fiber artist Manasi, who now it seems has dropped out of the yarn business to pursue photography and other artistic ventures. I wish now I had bought more of her yarn! My favorite pair of socks were made from her yarn; they are a simple lovely BRIGHT green with gentle stripes of greens in them. The yarn is strong and they fit perfectly. Firestarter looks fantastic in this yarn.

Shocking as well; I am doing these toe up, magic loop on Addis! These are three things I have almost never done in socking. I do not like the way the metals scrape together, so I never knit with metal needles. I find toe-up frustrating, and was never happy with my short-row heels. Plus, Addis? No point!

But after I forced myself to learn Judy's Magic Cast On, and then had a somewhat successful heel on the Anastasia socks, I decided I could try toe up again. Plus, how better to beat the "more of the same sock" blues than to change it all up again.

It worked!

I finished the Gathered Pullover from IK and it looks great; I wear it all the time (alpaca is warm.) I have only enough yarn for one more sweater in the stash--Silky Wool. Hoping that the new IK will have a lovely light sweater for that yarn.

Or....I'll just have to buy some yarn! Awful.