Knotty Mouse

I’ve decided that I’m going to attempt to play along with NaBloPoMo this month (rather unofficially though.. since I’m not joining the list) so y’all will be subjected to daily ramblings from Chez Mousie until I completely botch it and forget to post.  If I go by my fabulous track record with the ABC-Along, Soctoberfest, Kyoto-Along ( I hosted it and never finished the knitting.. how’s that for failure to commit?), and Saturday sky - y’all will only have about a week of posts before I blow it. Marching on with randomness..

I’ve updated the shop again with 3 skeins of handspun merino yarn that y’all have seen before on the blog.. I’ve put them up for sale so that someone else can love them instead of them taking up space in my cluttered studio.

Trick or Treating last night was a nightmare due to Atlanta traffic. Apparently its notorious for taking forever to get home in rush hour on Halloween.. and we got stuck in the middle of it because we left work over an hour later than planned.  It took nearly 2 hours to get 20 miles - and I was trapped in a car with someone who is having heavy duty nicotine withdrawal symptoms and is ready to tear off peoples heads. Thankfully my mother-in-law was there at the house to pick up Munchkin, take him to eat, and then get him into his costume. We did hit the end of trick or treating..  for whatever it was worth.. since only 8 houses in our ENTIRE neighborhood were giving out candy. 

Last night while rather goofy from Sudafed I decided that I would start a pair of socks for Lolly’s Socktoberfest. (Now, nevermind the fact that I have two other single socks in the house somewhere..  and that one of them is the same Mountain Colors waffle sock that I started in MAY.. ) I started the Cabled Footies from One Skein in an ancient ball of Plymouth Encore varigated yarn - but ended up ripping out the whole sock because the varigation was really taking away from the cables.

Unfortunately  cabling with that many large dpns in the way was absolutely going to drive me out of my mind (oh hush.. I know what you’re thinking..) so, I went online and  learned to cable WITHOUT a needle from a really good tutorial.  Once I stopped doing what I THOUGHT it said and actually did what the directions said.. I was speeding along. I actually got to the heel flap on this pair before deciding that the colors were not going to work. I also realized that I don’t really like the way the socks are so short (yes.. I know they’re “footies”..) so I will add a few inches to the leg portion.

 I’m going to dig through stash today and see what I can turn up. The socks as stated in the pattern take one skein of LL worsted - 220 yds so I’m sure I have something floating around here for them. I am doing them on a size 7 needle instead of the 8 that it calls for but I tried them on before I tore them out and the fit seems to be good… I’m a horribly loose knitter on dpns… and I found out that somehow I don’t own a set of size 8 dpns.. which I find to be really odd.  Guess I know what my next 40% off coupon from JoAnns is going toward!