Blue Socks

Another finished Knitting Olympics project hits the blogs. As it turns out I am an Olympic knitlete and a proud member of Team DPN, but not a gold medal winner. When it comes to estimates of time, as usual I seriously underestimated how long I would have to knit. (You're right of course. We should have just eaten out more and laundry really could have waited a couple of weeks.) When it came to the end of the second sock I opted to take my time and do it right rather than rushing to beat the clock. Lifelines were used again and again as I chose to rip back rather than accept a mediocre sock. The colors may be wild but these are otherwise fabulous socks. I am proud to have participated in the 2006 Knitting Olympics. In the spirit of planning ahead, I'm marking 2008 on my calendar now.
Olympic Rib Socks
Yarn: Trekking XXL
Color: # 104 bluesNeedles: size 1 bamboo
DPNsGuage: 7 sts/in. on st. st
2 x 2 ribbing and elongated corded rib body
Started 2/10/06 Finished 3/1/06

Keeping up with blogging is quite the task! Memories are surfacing of diaries started then left to gather dust.

Last week a wonderful thing happened. My sock swap partner sent me a pair of luscious Opal socks. They are decadantly soft and warm. Thank you many times over Patti F.!!