Not much knitting here, but lots of gardening.
So, I haven't gotten a lot of knitting done this week. Instead, Mark and I assembled a new chair that we bought for our front porch:
We planted flowers in our back garden:
Potted our herbs & vegetable (basil, oregano, parsley and peppers), more potted flowers for the back (begonias) and some lovely geraniums for the front:
So, as you can see, I haven't gotten a lot of knitting done, but boy, would you look at those colors:
I couldn't find a pattern that I liked for the Koigu socks, so I decided to write my own. This will be the first time that I have ever made up my own pattern for something that wasn't a scarf, so I am pretty excited to see if it will work or not. I'm using Kristin's sock tutorial as a guide for the ratios and when to decrease, etc., and it will be pretty simple - just ribs and cables - so hopefully even I can't mess that up! Stay tuned for progress...
6 Comments:
That sock looks lovely -- I didn't think when I looked at the yarn the first time that it would stripe like that! I love the effect.
Good luck with the sock pattern writing! I've been thinking about doing the same thing myself lately, but won't tackle it until after Pomatomus #2 is done.
I love the stripes, very pretty!
We're going to be doing our planting this weekend. I have never been accused of having a green thumb, but I didn't kill TOO many plants last year...
Oh I can forsee many happy hours sitting there rocking and knitting! Great sock.
Hey, I have a matching planter (okay, 2 matching planters) to your geranium planter on my front porch!!! COOL! The plants look awesome. I love the rocking chair, also!!
Ahh, harlot-esque posing of the sock. Having seen the Diakeito in person, the colors are extremely beautiful knitted up.
You and SJ are becoming sock mavens.
Really cool socks! Very brave to dive into writing a sock pattern. Good for you!
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