Birthdays and News and Errors, oh my!
So out of the blue, my SIL calls the other day (she usually emails, and she NEVER calls unless it’s a birthday or holiday) to tell me that she loves my gifts…that I give the gifts that keep on giving. Apparently, every time she wears the sweater I gave her for Christmas, she has amazing sex that night. I asked her if it was with my brother, to which she responded, “Of course!” to which I replied…”and it’s actually amazing? Wow.”
You have to understand: SIL = Beauty; Brother = Geek. They SO based that show on them, I swear!
Anyhow, when they were here at Christmas, my SIL was admiring the socks my mom was wearing one day. She said she liked how cute and stripey they were, and how much fun it would be to wear them and how adorable the looked on my mom with a pair of mary janes. Come to find out, the pair in question were these.
The ones I knitted back in Nov. 2006…my first ever pair ever.
So what have I been working on?
Sophia’s May birthday socks
Yep, that’s right. May. May 4 to be exact. To Denver. No sweat. Uh, what’s the date? Guess I’d better get crackin, huh?
By the way, I only have one question. Well, it’s more like a request, but it’s a relatively simple one, minuscule, really. Why, in the name of all that is good and woolly, can’t I find a DECENT self-striping sock yarn without all the weird mish-moshed white-and-colored mottled bits, in the colors I like? Is that too much to ask? As Jen is want to say…I WANT THE KIND THAT I WANT!!!!! Hello! Yarn companies. Not everybody likes those. Some of us would like our self-striping sock yarn to be solid. sheesh!
Oh, and hey! How about these two bits of “yay me!” news? First, I’ve been alonged! Yup, by she that is oh so Charmingly Wicked has organized a KAL for…
…with it’s own yahoo group and everything! So go join, already. You know you wanna!
Also, remember that abomination aka The Muppet Pelt Assmat pattern? It’s been published for reals. It’s in “Knitting Purls”; a wonderful gem of a newsletter from Charing Cross Publishers, and more specifically by Ida, founder of the Lily M. Foundation, Friends of Lily website and organizer of the Lily Pads Project (for which I designed the Muppet Pelt Assmat). Man, that’s one busy lady there! The newsletter has all kinds of fun stuff; humorous and informative articles, helpful yarn and product reviews, interviews, and original patterns. To subscribe just send an email to knittingpurls@charingcrosspublishers.com.
And before I go, I leave you with the cutest Ravelry fuck-up glitch ever.
What don’t see it? I’ll give you a hint. C’mon and sing it with me…
Now it’s time to say goodbye
To all our company…
Are Aay Vee…Ee-el Are Why
Em-Oh-You-Ess-Ee
(R.A.V.EL.R.Y
M.O.U.S.E…
over on the right where the screenshot of the blog is s’posed to be. See it?)
April 29th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Right there with you on the striping sock yarn. We don’t need all that fake fair isle! Just plain stripes for me thank you.
April 29th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Meilenweit has stripey goodness without jacquard “effects” - quite a bit of it, actually.
April 29th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
I recently saw Knitpicks Felici knitted up and it’s nicely striped sans fake fair isle. Now, do you order from there hating it as you do, or do you hold tight to your principles and forgo the lovely striping sock yarn?
April 29th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Regia has some lovely strips…go to Loopy Ewe and find some.
April 29th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
It’s so nice to knit for someone who appreciates it! In your spare time, you should dye your own sock yarn and sell it.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
What Monica said. And? I can’t see the picture because it is small.
April 30th, 2008 at 4:52 am
Congrats on your AssMat! Sunny and Beauty Baby LUV the one 1 made for “her” and fight over who gets to sleep on it. Guess I have to get busy and make the other one so the fur stops flying.
April 30th, 2008 at 5:43 am
Why it’s like I’m a star with my name up in lights.
I don’t usually but what the hell….
Squeeeeee!
April 30th, 2008 at 6:30 am
SO I’m singing amen about the wierd whitishtryingbutfailinfairislecrap on my self striping and I found one - it’s Regia Kaffee Fassett or however you spell it. I lurve them - solid colors with cool stripe action - just sayin’. I’m trying to see what I am supposed to be seeing with the raverly page…am I looking right at it and don’t see it?
April 30th, 2008 at 10:37 am
I completely agree about the mottled bits in striping yarn. Drives me bonkers!
April 30th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Please, oh please, La, please knit me a sweater for Christmas….!
April 30th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Geeks know a thing or two about sex. I’m just sayin’…
There are a few striping yarns out there that don’t have that fake fair isle nonsense. I keep thinking about taking two or three solid colors and making my own damn striping socks because I never find color combos I like.
No, I’m not picky or anything.
April 30th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Congrats on your fame and fortune! KALs in your honor! Patterns published! Soon you’ll be hobnobbing at Cannes with Orlando Bloom and Madonna and we’ll all say we knew ya when.
April 30th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
My friend Cynthia at Cygknit DOT wordpress DOT com has been custom dyeing striping yarn. Maybe you two can work something out?
April 30th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
I went to Ravelry to see, but it’s your blog. Is that a flying mouse? I’m suprised you don’t have a paragraph for that ~snort~ The socks are really nice, I expect your sil will get doubles for those! Lucky her.
May 1st, 2008 at 10:13 am
I can provide several hours of verbatim testimony to verify that Kristi cannot shut the eff up about…I mean…that Kristi truly lurves the Kaffee Fassett self-striping yarn.
May 1st, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Most of the yarns I knit socks with are self striping without the white. There is a local-ish farm in the area where the owner spins and dyes this nice and sturdy sock yarn (narrow stripes). Heck, even my trekking socks didn’t have white fairisle-y bits, so there is hope!
May 2nd, 2008 at 10:08 am
I have this Regia Nation, and it’s Canada, which means it’s just red and white striped, which means I have witch socks, which means my socks = totally fucking awesome.
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Flying mouse instead of blog? I can barely see it either.
Published! Did they change the name? And a KAL for Washburne! Sweet. I’d join but I want to actually finish it.