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Just what was I thinking?

I made reasonable progress on the AcidRainbow socks last night - not bad considering I kept trying to put them away.   I don't think I like the colors, I probably should have striped them with something wonderful, but BLING likes them so I'll make them in her size.  The rainbow that looked cool and funky in the ball looks obnoxious in the sock.  I rolled close to half the skein into a ball and am knitting from both but it's still flashing, though not nearly as badly as it would have.  What do you think, can you find anything to love here?  I'm glad I'm not wasting the effort of lace/pattern/anything on this pair, just plain old stockinette.  Hopefully they will look cute poking out from under BLINGS ubiquitous black jeans.  Of note - I'm using the project bag my SP sent me, every time I pick it up I feel very cared for.  Thanks SP!

Other news - it's been a very good music week for me.  I downloaded (iTunes) "Another Run Around The Sun" by Ben Taylor (son of James Taylor and Carly Simon), if you like his parents music you will love his music.  I grin like an idiot when I listen to the first track, it makes me so happy.  Additionally, the new Jamie Cullum CD came out and we pre-ordered it through iTunes.  I have played his first CD so many times the dogs can lip-sync to it.  This new album is another wonderful thing, but I could have lived without the bonus live tracks at the end.  All in all, very happy listening!

What kind of sock am I?

In keeping with the newly cast-on AcidRainbow socks I am proud to announce that you are (I am) what you (I) knit:

Wow! You would have been a pair of socks as long
as it's possible for socks to be before they're
tights - and all multi-coloured with pretty
patterns and detail all over the place - then
you could stand and admire your sock-self all
day!

What type of sock are you?
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Socktoberfest!

Hello, my name is Elaine and I am a sock knitter.  ("Hello Elaine").  On a recent blog crawl (when one can't yarn crawl...) I found Lolly's site, and that blessed fiber mistress is hosting Socktoberfest!  This is a type of knit-a-long that I can participate in.  How many socks can I knit in one month?  Let's find out.   Pair number 1 was started on September 30 (do I get special dispensation to count these?  I would have waited a day had I known about Socktoberfest back then).  Earlier I said they were knit out of Sockkotta - but I was probably smoking crack when I wrote that - they are knit from something all-together different, but I can't remember what and the label is at home and I am not.  The wool is a little scratchier than I usually prefer, but I just love the colors.  Besides - a little Downy goes a long way in the name of soft socks.   Next up is a recently cast-on pair in Fortissima Colori - much softer. (EDIT: the picture shows the first cast-on, it was quickly ripped and replaced by a different cast-on and method, see following description)  The yarn unspools as a near perfect rainbow, but the indigo looks black once knitted - these look to be the most obnoxious socks knit to date.  I am really proud of something though - the cast-on edge.  Taken from "The Big Book of Knitting" it is called a Kitchner Rib Cast On, but I haven't seen it called that anywhere else.  I think it is more of an invisible cast on.  The edge is super smooth, no cast-on loops or chains.  I did it and had to smile and pet on it for a while "oooh pretty edge - look at the pretty edge - oooh look at the pretty edge I made".  I'm surprised BLING didn't call the men in white coats to come and pick me up.  Another new thing I'm trying for these socks is knitting from alternating skeins (OK a ball and a skein), I didn't want another pair where the colors spiral around one ankle and blotch on the other.

And now for something completely different: Gefelted Fish.  Don't ask why, just love him with all your heart.