Life, Knitting and the Pursuit of Roller Coasters

January just kinda slipped right past me. The knitting has been taking a break for the most part. I’ve not made much progress on the in progress stuff I was working on before the holidays, and the only finished objects I’ve had this month were a Christmas leftover and a birthday present for my mom.

That said, I did finish those two projects.

Dad’s socks were definitely a product knit. They turned out perfect, fit him amazingly well and as soon as I gave them to him this weekend he took off his shoes and socks and put them on to wear the rest of the day. That said, they were also mens socks knit on size 0 needles and I was way past ready to be done working through the second sock.

Mom’s gloves were made with the leftover yarn from her scarf. I used the same pattern basis that I used for my gloves with a few mods based on the things I learned making mine. The biggest mod was that I dropped the pinkie down 4 rows and made sure to make the fingers a little wider and longer. Mom was surprised and thrilled with the gloves when she opened them this weekend.

I’ve also cast on a new sock simply because I needed a simple project to take with me for a hair appointment last week. Everything else on the needles requires some level of concentration and/or a chart, so I just pulled a yarn off the shelf that met the late-night cast-on requirements. Already in a ball, patterning and the right weight for size 1 needles. It’s out of trekking 157. I’m not crazy about the colorway as its knitting up, but the more I work on it the more it’s growing on me. I think I realized as I was washing my socks that they’re all blues, greens or reds with one random purple pair, so the colorway that is mostly oranges and browns with some gray and black doesn’t immediately appeal to me but I have a few things in my wardrobe that they will go with once they are done.

The knitting energy is slowly coming back now that the less-selfish knits are off the needles, so I’m hopeful that I might actually start blogging semi-regularly again.