Turkey Day!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

For those who are really in the spirit, consider making this hat.

Purple haze.

1. Here is a picture of the damage to my Jaywalker. It's not a great picture, but it's the best close-up that I could manage with my sucky amateur photo skills. Feel free to tell me, someone who has never darned anything - let alone a sock that isn't even finished yet - how to fix this one. Anyone? Anyone?








2. Here is a picture of my progress. So sad to have come this far, only to have my hopes for a pair of cozy socks for the winter be blasted to oblivion (note my effort to be as dramatic as possible about this. It's my pity party, and you're invited!).

3. Here is the yarn I will now be playing with for the time being, until I can either figure out how to fix the sock or muster up the bravery to frog it:
Manos Del Uruguay in Colorway #118, or Mulled Wine. I have been wanting to make Sheep in the City's My So-Called Scarf since I saw the pattern, and the name of this yarn alone was enough to make me want to buy it, since I do love wine. A wino scarf! ha ha... Sorry. It's very pretty, lots of purples and greens. Surely this will cheer me up!

(As an aside, the HP scarf is currently blocking. Fringe and then pictures forthcoming!)

Good news / Bad news

This post is for you, Cheryl! ;) Thanks for the nudge to get off my tookus.

Good news: I finished knitting the Harry Potter scarf today. Yes, it did take me a year. I will post pictures when I have it finished (ends woven in, tassels) and blocked. After all my bitching, enough said!

Bad news: I am 2/3 or so of the way through my first Jaywalker sock. Also my first sock of any variety on size 1 needles. Also only my second pair of socks. Also the first sock in which I found a hole in the leg before I'm even done knitting it! WTF?? I have no idea what happened. There are no scissors in my bag, so there was no unhappy accident of them stabbing into my work. I don't think it was a critter, either - what moth only chews through one strand of yarn? It seems to be just a single break, and it has caused the wee teeny tiny stitches around it to come apart. I realized it while I was working on it tonight, after the sudden burst of motivating adrenaline from having finished the scarf; I was ogling the pretty colors when my finger slipped through a hole that, um, shouldn't be there. I think I'm done for the night. When I'm done being sad about it, I will take a picture and then attempt to somehow repair the ridiculously small stitches; failing that, it looks like it will have to be frogged. Not the worst tragedy in my life, but tragic nonetheless.