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Tagseye candy friday
Is it really Friday already? This week’s installment of Eye Candy Friday will be less odd than last week. Nothing absurd, just out of the ordinary: Wild nature in the city!
self-service!
We here at Pepperknit strive to serve the public. So as of tonight, you can download the pdf patterns for the Anastasia Socks or the Zokni Socks all by yourself! No more middleman (i.e., me). No extra step. A loss of personal touch, of course, but you can send me an email (mintyfreshflavor at gmail dot com) to say hi if you want. Any time.
lesson learned: don’t try to do math when you’re sick
Because you’ll get to the toe, and you’ll be merrily kitchenering along, doing a fabulous job keeping tension even and the like, and you’ll get to the end and discover you have quite a few more stitches on one side than on the other.
in a mind for fall
It turns out that what I thought was an allergy attack on Saturday was a full-blown cold. I feel like crap; yesterday I stayed home from work and today I thought I’d go in in the afternoon, but since I get out of breath walking to the bathroom, it’s not looking good.
When last I wrote I was trying to figure out how to make a single leaf. Part of the complication was that I didn’t want the background of the work to be reverse stockinette, and I wanted the appearance of shaping on the leaf on both sides of the leaf. Late on Sunday, I finally made it work.
tonight I became ADD
Perhaps it’s a side effect of the allergy medication I took this afternoon, after hanging out at a cat house last night sent me into a sinus frenzy all day. I slept for 4 hours this afternoon! So tonight I was trying to catch up on my planning for this next pair of socks.
Here’s the deal: I want to make a leaf. Just a single leaf, on an angle. This delightfully soft sock yarn, from Hill Country Yarns, is called “Indian Summer” but has me thinking of leaf-peeping and falling leaves. I’ve been in the mood for pumpkin pie for days now. I decided the “easiest” way to figure out how to make one nice leaf would be to find a pattern and steal a single leaf from it. But of course, I needed to chart the whole pattern in order to pick out the single leaf and still keep all the decreases and yos even. So I did that. For a few different leaf patterns. Then I decided I needed a straightforward swatch before I tried experimenting with leaves.