June Projects

It's been awhile since I posted - what a busy month it's been! I'll write more on that in another post. But I wanted to bring you up to date on knitting projects. I knitted a couple of pairs of socks for Tom and Sam's learning specialists. They're the folks who pull together all the nuts and bolts of their accomodations - technology, captions, acoustics. We truly couldn't do it without them. Tom's learning specialist this year was Patti, Sam's was Pat. For Patti, I made these socks:


This is the May SOTM (Sock of the Month Club) offering from The Knitter. The yarn is Tofutsies and the pattern was VERY complicated! I frogged it a couple of times.

I made yet another pair of Monkey socks for Pat. I LOVE this pattern! It's so pretty and knits up fast. It looks complicated but isn't but the pattern is complicated enough to keep it interesting. The yarn is a cotton Sockotta yarn - one I've not knitted with before but liked a bunch.


I finished my Lilac socks! I think these are the best pair of socks I've knitted to date. I knitted these on size 0 needles (2.0 mm) using the Panda Wool yarn I won in a contest on Adrienne's blog. Panda Wool is a lovely yarn but the skeins are shorter yardage-wise than some I've knitted with. I had about 3 feet left over when I finished each sock - that's a little close for comfort! Luckily I have small feet.


I have a couple of works in progress. First is Judy's luxury Sock of the Month kit (also from the Knitter). Isn't this gorgeous? The pattern was designed by Judy, herself, and is so pretty but easy to memorize. There's a little cable every fourth row. The yarn is Lorna's Laces Chocolate Raspberry Swirl - I hope my camera catches it!


And this is THIS month's sock of the month club offering. It's called Betsy and is designed by Adrienne Fong - my favorite sock designer! The yarn is Regia - I need to hurry and finish these socks by Wednesday for the fourth of July.


Sam made the allstar team and we're going to a Fisher Cats game this evening so I should get lots of good knitting time -oops, I mean, baseball time - in this weekend!