Quilting is slow, Knitting is slower.

Duh.

It is a thought that has crossed my mind though, several times, over the past year since I learned to knit.

Just to try out a little idea I have for some socks, it will take a while.  I have to figure out how to fill in the rest of the foot with the plain color yarn.

Once I finish the heel.

And do the other sock to the same point so I don't get mixed up later and do the second one differently by mistake.

You would think I was engineering a bridge or a building with how much brain power this has been taking up lately.  I love these type of problems!

And, if I just break down the parts into sections, I find it easier to know what is the next step I have to figure out.  So far, it is going good!

Anyway, I have been thinking about painting again, just for the immediacy it offers in terms of results, as in pictures out of your brain and out into reality!

Something to put on the front burner for 2017.

In the meantime, today is a crazy, blustery, stormy day, a lovely, stay inside and continue to be delighted by this delicious yarn, lazy Sunday!

Life is good!

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This, just in...

And then there is the magic of awesome, from Fairy Little!

knitting a sweater in only 24 hours!

Knitting, actually.

Like Toad, in the Wind and the Willows, when he discovered motor cars.

Just like that...Only for knitting socks.

Truly.

Stop the presses, I need to learn how to knit.  Socks.

So, from Thanksgiving, that has been my obsession.

I did have the general idea, of how to knit, from sometime in my life, and I must have tried it out at some point...Maybe Brownies?  There seemed to be some element of muscle memory with how I tension the yarn.  It is kind of a wacky cat's cradle thing my left hand wanted to do to carry the yarn.  So I let it.  But the actual how to wrap the yarn and do the stitches, I really did have to learn from scratch.

Thanks to so many excellent YouTube tutorials, I did it!

Special thanks to my knitting teachers:  Cat Bordhi, Staci Perry (Very Pink Knits), Tina Robbins (BloomingKnitter), Liat Gat (KnitFreedom), and Elizzza (Nadelspiel).

So how did I do?

First pair!  Thank you for my large footed children.

Toe-up, sweet tomato heel.

Second pair!

Toe-up, sweet tomato heel, syncopation socks for the pattern.

3rd  pair, toe-up, Bubbles Down the Drain socks, sweet tomato heel again.

4th pair, child's toe-up, sweet tomato heel socks for my youngest.

4th of July socks.

And a pair of the same for me! #5

6th pair, in progress. 

These were actually supposed to be my first pair!  lol  It did take a bit to work myself down to size 0 needles.  The pattern is out of a book called The Knitter's Book of Socks.  Super cool.  Super great beautiful yarn.  I love it. 

I also knit this beautiful pattern from Nadelspiel Medici sock

Just the one so far.  I just made it up into a mitt because I wanted to try to figure out the pattern.

This glossary came in super handy.

I also knit a moebius scarf (no picture, gifted) and and am almost done with a Sontag shawl, which is this:

So there it is and there you have it folks!

Happy Sewing

(and knitting!!)

-Sarah