I am having such a hard time with my sock knitting. I spent most of the weekend working on this sock:

I turned my first heal around midnight last night and I was full of excitement until I tried to put the stinkin sock on. I have fairly wide feet but it's not like I am Bigfoot. I am mostly just disappointed because I spent hours on this and now I have to rip it out. Ah, I guess such is the life of a knitter. I have another pattern that you cast on 80st so I think I am going to try that next. The pattern that I used for the above sock can be found here, and it was super simple. I might just adjust this pattern to my large foot gauge because it seems like a very easy pattern to adjust. Either way I think I am going to put sock knitting aside for a bit so I don't lose my sanity.

Daniel is taking a big trip to Mammoth next week and I decided I need to knit him a new hat. I have been looking for a pattern today with earflaps that does not tie under the chin. It would need ribbing around the edge to keep it from flipping up and Daniel has requested that it is not very long in the front so it does not hit his goggles. So tonight I am hoping to figure out the pattern and knit him up the hat out of some black Lamb's Pride Bulky I bought this weekend. Lets hope this doesn't turn in to a fiasco too.

I also picked out some handspun wool/mohair from Solvang Spinning and Weaving this weekend.
Pinks and greens, no surprise there:
I have yet to decide what it will become.

Yesterday I complete the minisweater from glampyre knits for my sister. I am really excited to mail this off so I can see if it fits her. I am hoping that it will be perfect. I left off the trim around the sweater, only because I didn't want to rip it out if the sweater is too big. It has been blocked and it is drying as we speak, after that all that is left to do is sew on a button then it is off to my sister Rachel. This sweater has really sparked my interest in top down raglan sweater, which I think is a new project I am planning.

It was a close call with the yarn, I had about 440 yards of yarn and the pattern called for 400, this is all that I and left:

This was the first time I had that sick feeling in my stomach that I was going to run out of yarn, but I made it.

I took another trip to Solvang Spinning and Weaving and got some new pretty things, maybe I will post a picture tomorrow along with a picture of the sock I am working on. I think I might have master my fear of socks after all.

I think I will end my weekend with my favorite dog, giving the cute face:

I have been skeptical about this new drink at Starbucks, but the other night I tried one and it was wonderful. It fulfilled that "I want chocolate but not a crappy mocha craving." I enjoy my Starbucks beverages but I do think that their mochas are sub par. This drink was really good and very rich. I was the perfect after dinner non coffee drink, but I couldn’t have more than one or I might slip into a sugar induced coma.

I have not been a very good blogger this week. I don’t have any crafts to show and I am kind of feeling blah. But I am knitting and I am almost finished with the mini-sweater for my sister. Maybe a trip to the yarn store this weekend will perk me up a bit. I look so forward to my weekends and I expect so much out of them that I am usually disappointed. I would really l just like to enjoy me weekend without over analyzing it. I know I am only as happy as I let myself be. So here’s to a good weekend with no expectations, and I think I’ll have another chantico!

This weekend I decided to sew some simple drawstring bags to hold my knitting projects. I think I might have gotten a bit out of control and I ended up making 12. Sometimes I get a bit over zealous in my organizing. But now I have a bag for each different project that hold the yarn, needles, pattern and whatever else I may need.


Here is a single bag in all its glory.
I think the reason this picture looks funny because a pink bag up against a pink wall doesn't work well. And yes the walls of my craft room are pink, very pink. I made each one with a flat bottom and the string is either a cloths line or ribbon. So they are not terrible exciting but I accomplished things none the less.

I have yet to cast on a successful pair of socks, but I keep trying. This whole sock process is quite frustrating to me, I feel like I am never going to get it. Mostly the problem I have is finding a pattern to go with the yarn and needle I already have, plus they have to fit my big feet. All those elements together are making for some tough sock knitting, but I will prevail!

I always have Sunday night remorse, I spend too much of my time dwelling about how much I do not want to go to work on Monday. Well I thought I would end this weekend with such cuteness instead of worrying about work.