Stitches West

It's almost time for the Stitches West Show 2007. I am really excited to go. I'm working the show but I don't really care about that. It's the fact that I can get into the show for free and get to buy ton's of really cool yarn. I got a little taste of buying yarn already because I had to order some for my work and I started getting excited when the boxes came and I opened them to find bags and bags of great yarn to feel and play with. Yarn! :D I already know what I am going to look for I got the new Interweave Knits magazine and now I want to make the sweater on the cover its gorgeous. I am pretending that it will fit me, because it will, eventually... So I have to give birth and then lose like 30 pounds the kid has to contribute to some of it at least . everyone keeps telling me oh you're not even that big, Your 6 months wow your still tiny. I think they are just trying to make me feel better because I really am monstrous and getting bigger every day. When you are 5'3" and you weigh 150 something pounds (I have never been this big in my life), everyone must be placating you, because i've done the math this kid ain't that big and my maternity pants don't fit well and i'm wearing my husbands boxers because I have yet to go to the store to get underwear that fits me.

Enough digression about my weight. I am working on a baby sock that is more like a toddler sock than a baby sock. I already finished one, it looks pretty good. I tried the after-thought heel method. Where you knit the whole sock and then knit the heel. I saw a lady in my spinning group making one and I decided that I wanted to try it, so I scoured the internet and found a few versions of it. It seems like a really cool way to make a sock. Now if i could just get Kitchener stitch down my socks would not look nearly as demented. I used Lorna's Laces color Georgetown. It's a variegated yarn and it did the striping thing all on it's own. You can see what i meant about the not being very good at kitchener, the heel looks a little demented. I found a tutorial online so hopefully the other sock i'm working on won't look quite as demented.

I am still in the same spot that I was last time when I was working on the baby Kimono. Not much time lately, socks you can take any where but when you are doing the collar on this thing it ain't goin nowhere till your done. I have it on Double pointed needles andIi am worried that it might slip off. Till next time.