I did manage to finish one Pyroclastic sock but I don’t even remember when. Such is the crazy whirlwind that my life has morphed into. And I fear that I’ll suffer from single sock syndrome if I don’t start the second soon. There is also another heatwave looming so the weather’s become most un-knitterly…How I [...]

I don’t really but who cares. I was in Sausalito last week and I checked out a new LYS on my way to the beach. At the Raverly meet up a few months ago, I had won a gift card to Bluebird Yarn & Fiber Crafts and I’m sorry I don’t have any photos to [...]

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I started this sock three times! You may remember that I started the Pyroclastic socks about a few weeks ago. In the first version, on the far left, I cast on 66 stitches on a size ZERO needle. This *is* Malabrigo after all and because it’s so soft and stretchy, it needs a very tight [...]

There’s been no lag time between socks these days and progress on my most recent pair has been swift. A friend recently reminded me about Knitty.com and it was there that I found a sock pattern worthy of the super soft, yummy yellow Malabrigo sock I purchased at K2Tog a few months ago. BTW: K2Tog [...]

I was able to finish the Noro socks while I was in Bloomington for Max and Nell’s graduation from Indiana University. The photo above is an homage to the Hot Date Socks which I think are spectacular and hope to replicate some day (the photo too which I also love). The photo below is a [...]

Even though I only live about 20 miles from San Francisco, I rarely visit the city and it can seem like another world. A far off land. Especially when it’s the annual Bay to Breakers which I accidentally encountered last Sunday on one of my rare trips to the city. As I waited for Nancy [...]

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Stripes are everywhere I look these days and especially striped legwear. I couldn’t believe my eyes when a student at the High School I was subbing showed up decked out in tights to match my El Sob socks which, by the way, are coming along swimmingly. BTW I want to mention that I’m using the [...]

I haven’t been able to put this sock down since I started it yesterday. Seriously addicting is an understatement. I was knitting last night at midnight after I got home from seeing this band. Dead tired but I just couldn’t put it down. Although I’ve done Noro stripes before, I had forgotten how absolutely, completely [...]