Who likes taking photos of their knitting projects? I do! I do!

Thought my Mom would appreciate some hand-knit socks; blue is her favorite, and she was always a big fan of asymmetry... (is that weird?)

How's this for a lesson in depth of field?

I don't care that the table cloth is wrinkled... I like this photo.

Not much else to say ... this pattern is Cookie A's Rick from her book "Sock Innovation".

Have a look at all the other version of this pattern at ravelry:

A KAL for the BSGFPB in May, the lovely and simple Baktus. I had some cotton sockotta yarn I bought ages ago that I never felt compelled to use for socks. After seeing all the work people do with sock yarns for scarves on ravelry.com I decided to join in on the knit-a-long with this stash buster. The pattern is available for free at flickr, where you can see many other versions with all kinds of yarns, and also look at ravelry.

  I love it, it's a nice, light scarf for the spring, summer, and fall. It's low maintenance since I can throw it in the wash, the tassels won't even fray. They are the "gossamer tassel" from the Vogue book, Knitting on the Edge.

This may be my favorite project ever, I loved the yarn, I loved the simplicity of the pattern, and I couldn't stop taking photos of it.

Here's how it went down.

Taking a weekend away to drive up to New Hampshire, we stopped in Newburyport for a late breakfast. I pulled out my 'yarn store finder' app from the ravelry.com people and discovered I was 43 feet away from a yarn store, A Loom with a View.  Gotta buy something, it's vacation, right? 43 feet? Hell ya.

So I came out with 2 skeins of Mini-mochi and one of a Madeline Tosh Sock yarn. I took these photos with my iPhone using the white bag they came in as a lightbox, I uploaded them to flickr right away.

In New Hampshire I surfed ravelry and found a lovely triangular shawl someone did with Mini-mochi and figured I'd skip socks this time and try my first shawl. Once I got back home I made my shawl decision, Stephen West's Akimbo shawl.  I worked with it as the Mini-mochi colors came, and decided I didn't like it enough. Meh...

 

Then I went to town on this, keeping the blue aside until I got to the contrasting colors. Eventually I realized I needed to order a 3rd Mini-mochi skein from the store in Newburyport to finish this project... but here's how it came out. Love, love, love it.

 I used this for my March project in the BSGFPB game we have going at ravelry. And it ended up winning me a hand dyed skein from Kesten. (!!) So awesome.

I just uploaded my first design ever, for the Ravelympics 2010.

The sledding cowl, click here for the pattern!

w0ot!

 

My first design!!  ever...

Knit as a necessity for a trip to the Quebec Winter Carnival, I needed a warm cowl that I could wear everywhere, and would be safe when I went dog sledding at the tourist area in Duchesnay, Quebec. Cowls are fantastic for winter sports like skiing and sledding because they keep you warm with the added benefit of not getting caught in things like chair-lifts and tree branches ... like a scarf might. One near miss with a scarf and you'll be into cowls forever

CLICK HERE FOR THE PDF (and many thanks to my sister-in-law for modelling)