Knitting@roosterhillfarm.com

Farm emergency has kept me from knitting much. Read about it here, here, and here.

Noro socks

Presenting my first pair of Noro socks. They are knit top down on 2.25mm wooden needles with a short row heel. I knit them mostly while on the road, and finished them while watching the Academy Awards last night.

Noro socks

I did my best to line up the striping. I had to trim some yarn from the ball before starting the second sock, and the stripes turned out very matchy-matchy. I do have quite a but left over though, which tells me I could have made them taller than 6″. All told, there are 45g leftover. I also have 2 more balls of Noro to knit with. I am going to play with the striping more, maybe with some Sidewinders and a pattern that will draw the stripes out of the rows.

Yarn Pirate Feb Club shipment "I want candy"

I think I have joined a total of 3 sock clubs this year: Socks That Rock of course (been a member since the beginning), made it into the Loopy Ewe Club which starts this spring, and the Yarn Pirate sock club.

What’s different from the Pirate club is we get yarn - and lots of great accessories like pink circs. But no pattern. The rest is up to us. There is a Yarn Pirate group on Ravelry that makes it all very interesting. We can share what we make with the yarn every month.

Spiral Eyelet

My first take with this yarn was the Spiral Eyelet sock. On size 2.75 at 48-ish stitches, the striping is wide. I really liked the stripes, the eyelets not so much. I wanted a pattern to smear the stripes, mix it up a little. I wanted to do something new to me.

Swirl Socks

So I tinked and started over. And started over. And over. Ended up with a toe up at 60 stitches on 2.25 needles. Stripes are still there, but the change in gauge has certainly affected them. I wish I had those wide stripes back, but frankly they would not fit an adult foot at the gauge I had before.

The pattern is Swirl Socks with a little bit of Wendy’s generic toe up thrown in.

Noro Socks

Another recent knit includes the new Noro sock yarn done in a basic cuff down sock at 56st with a short row heel. I am just at the heel on the second sock. I have adjusted the yarn so both socks are the same, and it looks like I will have a lot left over. So a tip for you - on size 2.25 I think it is - you can go more than 6″ on the top of the sock and have more yarn. I would bet you could do 8″, more if you did not care about matching.

Stella’s Hat

I kinneared myself while driving to catch my new hat in action. It’s Stella’s Hat in malabrigo. Quick knit! I did it while watching the Grammy’s!