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August 23, 2007
2 for the price of 1
Bloody Mary II:
Knit up in geeyouknit! in the colorway "Appliance."
These socks were originally intended for yours truly. However, I screwed up on the first sock and started the toe about an inch too soon. And so, instead of frogging back, oh, about an inch and a half, I simply decided to finish knitting them up as is and give them away to someone with a smaller foot. Along with never checking gauge, I also never go back or frog for anything. Unless the mistake was made (at most) five stitches ago, there is just no turning back. I am the epitome of all that is half-assed.
No matter, tho. I think my mother will throughly enjoy these socks. All's well that ends well.
NJ dishcloth:
Knitting dishcloths is quick, easy, practical, and throughly satisfying. Yet I seem to forget this tidbit of information quite easily. I knit myself a really cute dishcloth a while ago and told myself at the time that I was gonna knit a billion more dishcloths for myself. By "billion," tho, what I apparently meant was "none at all until a year later."
I really love these state dishcloth patterns. Yeah, they're kinda kitchy but I find them totally cute nonetheless. I think it actually would be fun to knit a dishcloth for every state in all sorts of pretty colors. But alas, at the rate I'm going in, Sufjan will be done with his 50 States Project well before me.
Meh, it's just as well, anyways. I never ever finish anyth
Posted by Sandra at August 23, 2007 04:13 PM
Comments
Your socks look great! Lucky mom!!
That shirt is hilarious.
Posted by: Risa at August 23, 2007 06:53 PM
Love the Garden State dishcloth, thanks for bringing a huge smile to my face with that one!
Posted by: Heather at August 23, 2007 07:09 PM
heh. there's plenty that i start that i don't finish. love the think geek shirt. i should totally get it!
thanks for the US dishcloths link. totally rad.
Posted by: gleek at August 23, 2007 07:57 PM
The socks look great. The state dishcloths are the coolest.
Posted by: HeatherD at August 23, 2007 08:45 PM
Oh my god, I think I need to knit each state a dish cloth. Could you imagine? When I die, I could leave all fifty to someone...or I could just leave certain states to certain people. Morbid, but hilarious.
Posted by: elizabeth at August 23, 2007 09:56 PM
I love the socks. And I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who would rather live with a mistake than frog back. I was beginning to think I was a bad knitter for this habit. But if there's someone else who does it...
Posted by: amy at August 23, 2007 10:50 PM
you are too funny.
love the dishcloth. hurray for kitsch! i think i need, like, an iowa dishcloth. for kicks.
Posted by: carrie m at August 23, 2007 11:24 PM
As another Garden State dweller, I love the dishcloth. It is a bit kitschy, but that's part of the appeal! :) And you finish lots of stuff! I can't tell you how many orphaned socks or one-sleeve sweaters UFOs I have lying about...
Posted by: connie at August 23, 2007 11:55 PM
And I thought I was the only one who never frogged or took back more than 5 stitches! I love those socks... something else on my 'to knit list'!
Posted by: Michaela at August 24, 2007 08:08 AM
I am with you on that whole "no frogging back more than 5 rows" thing. I'm working on a gift right now and instead of frogging back one row of a shawl border, I just knit an extra one and fixed the mistakes there. Yep. Lazy, that's me.
Posted by: Specs at August 24, 2007 09:33 AM
No, you still have an edge on Sufjan... he is going so slow!
Love the socks!
Posted by: Lolly at August 24, 2007 09:43 AM
Very cool dishcloth. I like that sort of kitschy. :)
Posted by: Laura at August 24, 2007 11:07 AM
Thanks so much for the free patterns - and such great ones!
I'm not much of a sock knitter but I have some great sock yarn that I got from Peaknit and I want to do Charade with them. Maybe Bloody Mary will be next.
Thanks for the State Dishcoth link - they are great!
Jill
Posted by: Knitterella at August 24, 2007 11:13 AM
Your mom is a lucky duck! You always knit her the coolest stuff!!!
Maybe you should knit a set of dishclothes for Sufjan?!?! You did tell me he was a knitter right? I'm sure he'd appreciate it!
Posted by: Leah at August 26, 2007 10:46 AM
Ha! Love the socks, especially with the sneakers, of course. I have some of Elizabeth's yarn that looks fab in the Charade stitch pattern -- I'm trying to figure out how to do Charade mittens. Oh, and THANK YOU for the knitting dishcloths link! You know a Michigan one is going to be on my needles asafp.
Posted by: pamela wynne at August 26, 2007 12:40 PM
Socks look great, I'm sure your mum will love 'em.
If anyone can pull off the kitch, you can :)
Posted by: schrodinger at August 26, 2007 03:19 PM
Yay for retro kitsch! Thanks for the link; I think I will knit some of the state dishcloths up as Christmas prezzies.
Posted by: Chrissie at August 26, 2007 10:09 PM
Socks look great! Kitchy cute, love the dishcloth.
Posted by: eyeleen at August 26, 2007 11:08 PM
The socks look great in that yarn.
The state dishcloth idea is pretty cool. I'll have to share that one with my knitting group.
Posted by: Michelle at August 27, 2007 01:20 AM
New Jersey kinda looks like a duckling. I never noticed that before.
Posted by: Katy at August 27, 2007 01:06 PM
Love the socks, but where o' where did you get the vintage looking Nike sneaks? LOVE them!
Posted by: Kim at August 28, 2007 05:03 PM
Those socks look fabulous with your shoes!! Very nice.
Posted by: Julia at August 29, 2007 01:14 PM
mistakes are really just "design features" anyway. i refuse to frog.
Posted by: knitxcore at August 30, 2007 12:35 PM