The Good Ol' Hockey Post

I got my Ravelry hockey swap package this week! Isn't it lovely? My swap pal was Lisa (Ravelry login required). She sent a roomy red Capitals bag, pretty Knit Picks sock yarn, a cute tape measure key chain and lots of candy. A sweet swap package indeed! The little green cylinder next to the tape measure is a kaleidescope, which multiplies the awesomeness. Wanna see?
Even more Twix! Nice! I should use this with my knitting pics too, so I look ten times more productive. Thank you Lisa!

Birthday Fun

It was my birthday recently, and a bunch of my friends and family celebrated by going to a Caps game. It happened to be the night the team received their first ever President's TrophySorry for the crappy picture. Somewhere in the big bright spot is the trophy and Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin. It was a nice moment, but hopefully they'll have another big trophy to celebrate soon!

I got some knitting done during the game.This is All Things Heather sock yarn in the colorway "sunflower." It's a bit of fall to offset the fast approaching summer heat.

And yes, there are even more hats.
I will move on from tweed hats soon, I swear. There's enough tweed left to make five more hats. After that, I spy some stranded knitting in my future.

Good Sock, Bad Sock

I made a pair of socks a few weeks ago with some Colinette Jitterbug I'd recovered from a botched Jaywalker attempt.
Here it is at a sparsely-attended Spring Break Hoyas game. The socks knit up very nicely, and quite quickly too.

Good Sock! Yay!

I was kinda stuck in a rainbow rut, so the next sock was similarly colored, only striped.

This is RegiaThings went wonky though because I was curious about how a different heel would affect the striping.
Apparently this new-to-me-heel and I were just not gonna get along. Bad Sock! Very bad! So it was back to the old standby heel flap/gusset method. After much ripping and cursing, it all came out right in the end.

(Also, I made some more hats.)

Back on the Air

And I'm back, after a really long time of not blogging! I went absolutely no where and did not much of interest. Just the usual knitting, working, going to plays, vegetating in front of the TV etc. We have had an unusually snowy winter in Washington:I like the snow, even with all the shoveling and potential loss of electricity. It just looks so pretty.

I attempted to knit 3 pairs of socks in 17 days for the Knitting Olympics.
And I finished them on time! It's my plain ol' stock stitch sock "pattern" in (from left to right) Tess' Designer Yarns Super Sock and Baby, Schoeller and Stahl's Fortissima Colori, and Liberty's Yarn Jabbersocky. The Fortissima Colori was really harsh. Blech! I was pleasantly surprised that the Jabbersocky socks turned out so well matched. I set a low matchyness bar with hand-dyes, but these came out almost identical. Nice!