Damon's Socks

More socks! This time Damon picked out the yarn for his socks. I like how the black and charcoal colors came out.

Scalloped Edge Poncho

I recently completed this scalloped edge poncho but I could not get a good photo of it. The bottom of the poncho has a really neat pattern that looks like little trees above the scalloped edge. I managed to get a couple of OK photos outside this morning, but they would have turned out nicer, had the sun been out. The pattern is from sweaterbabe.com.

I also learned a pretty cool trick to use when casting on a large amount of stitches. Using two balls of yarn, make a slipknot but don't count it as your first stitch. Next, cast on all stitches using the two balls of yarn and then slip the first slipknot off and cut the yarn from one of the balls. It worked great and took the guesswork out of trying to gauge how much yarn to use to cast on.

Well, I finally got around to downloading photos from my camera.  These are Jim's new Fair Isle socks.

I've recently got on a "finish what you started" kick.  I have some knitting projects that have been set aside in favor of more immediately gratifying fun projects.  A while ago, I started "Crickie's Napghan"--an afghan made from yarn I recycled from 2 afghans knit by one of Jim's aunts (who is now deceased).  One of the afghans was made for our wedding (24 years ago in April!) and the other was made for Jim when he was still young.  The 2 afghans were falling apart so I decided to reknit both into something new.  It's called "Crickie's Napghan" because Cricket (who is now a 22-year-old cat) loved to knead and sleep on them.  I want to finish it before Crickie goes to kitty heaven (Jim thinks she'll outlive us both).