Still Snowing

Between drizzle, sleet, freezing rain and, yes, more snow, the local schools have been closed the last two days. So Mr S has been puttering around the house, a nice benefit for me was that part of his puttering included making baked Ziti for supper last night.


I'm pretty excited that Leisure Arts has used some of my sock patterns in their new I Can't Believe I'm Knitting Socks book; and my copies arrived yesterday. I didn't write the book (just provided patterns), so I can say without too much prejudice that it's a very good introduction to sock knitting, with lots of photographs and illustrations (including a good step by step section on grafting/Kitchner stitch).




What else? I competed about another inch of the Gypsy Girl shawl, but not enough to make posting another picture worthwhile at this point. I like the way the center pattern is developing. I've used two basic motifs, but I'm doing some slight variations in the way I'm combining them. This keeps things interesting (challenging) in the working, and will provide a little "variety within unity" visually (at least that's the goal).


Still slipping stitches. I worked on these last night when my fried Lu came for our weekly knitting session. The bottom one was just to show her how stitches can be slipped over one, two or three rows (right to left in the picture), the top one was to show her how this can result in a color pattern.






I'm trying to decide on a format for the alleged "tutorial". Separate blog posts feel like they would be too disjointed and/or intrusive. Maybe a second blog just for this project. There's my geocities site, but I haven't gotten the hang of working with it to come up with a decent looking page. I'm trying to analyze why I feel stuck on this, and it has more to do with the computer than with the knitting....


Oh well, when all else fails, post a cat picture





Making good use of a Snow Day