Finished my first pair of socks!

I finished my first pair of socks just a few hours before I was supposed to go to my mother-in-law's Christmas dinner. They were for my sister-in-law so I HAD to get them done! My sister in law LOVED them and my mother in law turned to me and said "That's what I want for my birthday!!!" I'm going to try and knit two pair for her! I'm a total sock addict now. I already have 5 sets of circs and 6 or 8 balls of sock yarn to take with me when we leave on vacation this afternoon! I'm knitting myself a pair next!!

Holiday knitting, anyone?

Has anyone else seriously overcommitted themselves when it comes to holiday knitting? My list keeps growing and growing even though I'm finishing projects! Shouldn't it be getting shorter??

I've finished 4 Sophie Bag Purses and need to sew metallic clasps into them.
I'm almost done on the second sock I'm knitting for my sister in law.
I'm knitting several neat washclothes from www.magknits.com
DH announced that he would like a hat for Christmas. I've decided to knit a hat for him in his high school colors since they one ANOTHER state championship two weeks ago! I'm also making him a matching scarf!
DS decided he also needs a hat in DH's high school colors!
I'd like to make one more Sophie Bag but I just don't know if I will have time!

I'd also like to make a scarf for myself!

Does anyone else want anything??? Speak now or forever hold your peace!! :)

Okay, I've got to get knitting...Anyone want to come over and help?? :)

Socks rock!!

I've mastered purses, hats, baby sweaters, slippers, etc etc. I knew it was time to move onto something new. I drooled over pretty sock patterns online. I fingered the soft wool I have in my yarn stash and imagined the wool knitted into comfy socks. I checked sock pattern books out of the library and paged through them. My only problem was that I had an unatural fear of double pointed needles. I was visions (nightmares) of stabbing myself in the eye while trying to transfer stitches. I was just plain scared of them.

Now, I know that fear is not a good thing. The only reasonable things people should be afraid of are lions and perhaps a really bad perm. But knitting needles (even if they are super pointy) should not be feared.

So I gathered up my courage and ordered several pair of double pointed needles from www.joann.com last week. I stalked the UPS site to watch their progress across the country. I leapt on them when they arrived on my front porch.

I sat in front of my computer last Wednesday night and knew it was time. Time to knit my first sock!!! I decided to use the Come to silver Sock knitting Tutorial I had found! http://www.cometosilver.com/socks/SockClass_Beginning.htm I watched a few online tutorials on knitting with DPN's to gain confidence. And I was off!!

After jabbing myself in the hand a couple of times while getting used to the needles a strange thing started to happen. I saw something! Was it a bird? A Plane? No! It was a sock cuff! Emerging right out of my needles!!! I was truly amazed, inspired and addicted!!!

I have now finished the first sock and have started on the second. I will gift these to my sister-in-law for Christmas this Saturday. I know she'll appreciate these super comfy wool socks!

I'm totally addicted to knitting socks now! I've ordered several skeins of Paton's Kroy sock yarn and I can't wait for them to get here! Why did I wait so long to knit socks?? They're fantastic!!

What I did over my summer vacation!

What do most normal people do over the summer? They go to the beach, the pool or to the waterpark!

What did I do over the summer? I was knitting! With wool no less! Seriously, my husband had knee surgery over the summer and we spent A LOT of time at home as he couldn't go anywhere. During the heat I longed for cooler weather and decided to go ahead and get started with my fall/winter knitting.

I made a sweet little Easy Peasy sweater for some friends of our who'd just adopted.

Then I started on my first pair of Little Turtle Knits Felted Family Mocs. They looks intimidating but I knew I could do it! The first pic is of the slippers before they were felted. The second after they were felted and the third pic was the kids wearing their new slippers. They were a hit!!