First Project of 07

I have finished the Noro vest and wore it yesterday. i am still not sure how I feel about it. The yarn has a great deal of drape and there is no shape to the garment. The photo with thee pattern looked thicker, like something I could wear as a fleece vest outside. It will be too light for that but the colors are fun, the weight is good for our non-winter. Decided to have some fun with the modeled garment. It really doesn't show much, does it.

First socks of the new year are finished. They are Fleece Artist yarn in a simple stockinette. The edge is a picot. I used a needle two sizes larger than I used to knit the sock, a size 3. After the cast on, I switched to a size 1 and knitted five rows before the eyelet and five rows after the eyelet. On the next row, I knitted together the working stitches to the selvedge edge. Using the larger needle for the cast on row made it easy to catch that loop. Some people pick these stitches up on a needle or pieces of waste yarn, I found I did not needed to pick them up in preparation. I have never finished a sock using Fleece Artist before and I was concerned that I would not have enough yarn. The directions on the skein band call for a 5 " leg. I prefer a 7" leg, less leg peeks out from under my pants when I sit down or cross my legs. I split the difference and knit a 6" leg. There was plenty left over so I will return to the 7" on the next sock. The yarn does not have much sproing but the colors are lovely. There was absolutely no pooling!

Soooooo, what is next? After sewing up these socks, I pulled out a shrug I was knitting for DD. It is just a chenille yarn from Michaels in a looooong rectangle. Brain deadening knitting. I finally had length and started to sew up the sleeves. Well, they fit but DD wanted a closer fit. Rather than mess with it, I took it to the serger and probably sliced off about 4" from the width of the sleeves. It is difficult to serge a knitted fabric, especially one a thick a chenille. It does not feed as evenly and you end up with a ruffled fabric. I found that by running it through once more and cutting very close to the edge the ruffle decreased. Well, it was relatively successful and DD wore it to school today. No pictures. a 40" rectangle make for rather boring pictures!

With those two projects done, I still had time so I pulled out the Metropolis sock in Fleece artist Mineral that I blogged about earlier. I ordered another skein of the Mineral colorway to ensure that I have enough for two socks and pulled it out of the WOOP pile to work on.

I finished the patterning on the foot and started the decreases for the toe and decided that maybe I had better try it on for length. It is confirmed, I just do not like the way the yarn interacts with the pattern. I have thrown it in to the frog pond in disgust! I now have two skeins of this colorway!! I do like the color, it just not work in a textured pattern After a time in the frog pond, I may try a 2X2, 7" leg.

So what will be next? Probably the Violet's Pink Ribbon from Liza Souza.
I am thinking about the Pomatomus sock from Knitty. Can't say it, hope I can knit it!