I had my husband Chris take a picture of Dulci wearing her new dress. I think it’s really cute, and I’m going to make her one in black as well.

The dress is really easy to make and takes less than a typical skein of acrylic yarn. Dulci seems to like the dress and wears it willingly.

Here’s the back of the doggie dress, complete with ruffles. I’d never done ruffles before and so I’m glad that even on something this quick and simple I learned a new technique.

I’ve also knit up the front of the dress, so all that’s left to do is sew it up. I am NOT going to stitch pearls to it as she’d probably just try to eat them. I’ll take more pictures of her once it’s done.

bamboo socks, finished

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I finished a pair of bamboo socks the other day. The yarn is Happy 4 ply and OMG I love it. I’ve already bought another ball of it to make another pair, and I may go back for more. It’s so soft.

I’m also working on a pair of fingerless gloves using the rest of the ball. I’m doing this without a pattern, aside from referring to Fetching for thumb placement, so I don’t know how they’ll turn out. I have tiny hands and tiny feet, so that’s how I get away with using only half a ball for each!

But rest assured, in addition to being gainfully employed again I’ve been doing creative work, a little knitting, a little jewelry making, and a little writing. I have a new writing group, and if you see this post and are interested, please do let me know if you’d like to join.

I’ll try to post here more frequently.

at webs

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A photo of me at WEBS while I was visiting my parents in MA. It was really cool to finally be able to see the store and purchase yarn there. I actually pointed out where they had some yarn mislabeled (it said it was sock yarn, but it wasn’t).

Mostly these days I am working on socks. I do have a hoodie to knit for a KAL though, so I should really get started on it — I was supposed to have started a month ago, but I’ve been busy.

sockage

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My latest pair of finished socks, from Noro Kureyon Sock. For once, the two socks are almost identical, except for the last couple of inches or so at the toe (the other sock goes into very dark indigo and then lighter blue, instead of the deep copper and then purple).

I’m now working on a pair in Regia Silk (silk and wool), which is a lot easier to work with. I still have two balls of Noro Kureyon though.

latest sockage

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I’d gotten a bit bored with socks, especially the ribbed anklets, but somehow I ended up starting another pair…and oh GOD they’re driving me nuts.

My first pair of Noro socks knit up like a dream. The yarn was overspun, but it was worth it. This ball of Noro is overspun, then underspun, then over…It broke twice on this one sock, plus there was a knot, so that’s THREE times in one ball I had to “change”….ugh. I have never had so much trouble knitting before.

But I’ve started the second sock, and so far it’s behaving. I may end up making four socks and seeing what kind of pairs I can make; the second sock started on the red and so it’s not going to look much at all like the first…

I hope there are no more breakages! Dammit!