SockTart

SockTart Episode Nine: More Generic Goodness!

Maire gets together with Lhiabelle (Sherri) and Sukuti (Morgan) for a few drinks, some turkey, and banishment of the husbeasts to the basement.  Join us for a real Canadian Kitchen-party, Socktart-style!
**Warning: We talk briefly, yet frankly, about hormones at one point, particularly regarding birth control**

On/Off the needles:

Morgan:

• Monkeymen for her husband Wargh, yarn from Dyelots in Eugene OR.
• Had problems with the Susanna pattern, couldn’t get it working with the BMFA Chapman Springs yarn
• Is also doing a pair of Monkeys
• Has cast on Luminiere with the Chapman Springs.

Maire:

• Done both Mummy socks from Super Sock Scarefest (Gets Sherri to model as the Mummy Socks attack her feet!)
• Not sure what the Sunstone is going to be.  Possibly Nevermore by Yarnyenta.  Needs to read the errata.  Had been thinking of the SKA Mystery Sock for September, but not sure.

Sherri:

• Gusset done on Sweetpea socks
• Muscari sock (by Suzi Anvin) casted on and ripped back.  Pride colourway didn’t work out well with it.
• Now going to be Pembrokeshire Pathways.

Random Chatter:

• We discover that none of us are continental knitters, and discuss the Yarn Harlot’s production-style knitting.  All of us are multi-generational knitters.
• We talk about how WoW interferes with our knitting progress
• How needle size throws off your gauge
• Having to think more than usual about knitting.
• The Yarn Harlot’s Production-style knitting
• Guilty pleasure movies & Christopher Walken. We’ve been told to check out the Chicken & Pears video on Youtube
• Warcrack and Evercrack are discussed
• We fondle yarn, particularly Noro Silk Garden Sock
• We discuss Noro in general.  Kureyon and Silk Garden sock in particular.
• We discuss spinning wheels & the proper pronounciation of ‘Louet’ (Canuckistani Grammar Lessons — Zed, Not Zee!)
• We go over how survival skills have changed into leisure activities.
• Sherri gushes over Eric at Cables & Lace.com’s dyeing work.
• Morgan will be sending Maire her alterations of the Monkeymen pattern that includes the purls.  Makes a more stretchy fabric for those with wider ankles & feet.
• We debate colour names and how sometimes Orange is really Deep Yellow.  What really IS Seafoam?

New Socks on the Block

We find & comment on a small handful of recently released/published sock patterns on Ravelry. Yum!!

We are operating without a computer at the moment!  And the Professor’s phone alarm goes off.

• Luminiere: (Maire can’t find this pattern quite yet, so will wait til Morgan finds it & gives her the link)
• Unravelling Ribs by Amy Tyszkiewicz: lovely pattern that travels all over the ankle
• Sherri gets us talking about Kristin Benecken & bavarian knitting
• We have some general discussion about the new Knitty
• Nevermore by YarnYenta (Heatherly Walker): Chart seems confusing, but the socks look beautiful. (Sherri renames Maire’s project as “Goldfinch” instead of “Nevermore”)

Credits:
- Intro clip from “8 BIT Junkie” by George Wood
- Outro clip: “The Table Near The Band” by Power Salad

- The house is getting cleaned.  A surface clean done by next weekend, and a deep clean as we go forwards.  Goodwill is gonna love me.

- The weight…is going DOWN.  Bye bye sugar.  My tastebuds will miss you, but my thighs will not.  Sorry, GI Diet, but grains and I really don’t agree.  I love them and they hate me.  Hello low-carb once more (Low-Carb treats me much better,  anyhow.  Particularly at this time of year when my headaches go crazy).

- Socks will be knit.  Many socks will be knit.  I will be going crazy, so there will be much in the way of sock knitting.

- One more toon will be going to 70.  Eventually.  That’s the one thing I’m willing to relax on a bit.  It’s not crucial.

You pretty well have to have a bit of background in World of Warcraft to understand this one.  I just had to link it.   Amazing what happens when the Quebecois give a treatise on PVP

Somehow I picked up a little bug.  Sore throat, bit of a cough, etc.  Hit me last night at T’s Whiskey Night.   Robin has gone to the Sev to get me a Slurpee and some ice-cream for my throat, so hopefully I’ll be back up to snuff soonish.  It’s either that or OD on the Bennelyn (sp?) and/or Buckleys (shudder).

Potential Kara raid today!  Hopefully we’ll have more in the way of what we need in regards to character classes so that we can do more than just one boss.  Squee!

Knitting with the Dreaded Regia Cotton again.  This is something like the fourth time I’ve tried to use this particular ball of yarn.  Here’s hoping that it’s the last time, hey?  2 Jaywalkers at once, magic looped, toe-up with heel flap.  I’m almost convinced that this yarn is cursed.  At least it’s something to do while Robin plays around with Mass Effect.  The boys at work were right…game is addictive.  I’m enjoying watching the story unfold as I knit away.