What's on your needles (or hooks)?

I have about nine different projects going on right now, not counting spinning; one of them is revisiting a lovely yarn that I had some issues with last year. I tried to do a pair of Herringbone Rib socks, and that just... well, ended badly. They got the better of me. But I love the yarn (Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock in "Roadside Gerry"), so I'm revisiting it with a pair of simple feather & fan socks.

Have you ever gone back to yarn that you thought had beaten you? How did that turn out?

What's on your needles?

Right now it just looks like a cuff, but eventually it will grow up to be a sock. The pattern is Pheasant Run, and the yarn is Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock in the Edgewater colorway. I just wish I had more time to work on it!

The one where nobody asks me for color advice, ever again.

It's November, and while there will be a December square, I won't be making it (Sharon is doing December, and BOY HOWDY! is it going to be a nice one!) so I decided it was time to start thinking of how my afghan is going together. HAHAHAHAHAHA. Apparently I have been smoking crack for the last eleven months... because even though I told myself that (1) using lots of different colors is OK because the crazy quilt look will come together in the end and (2) that minor fluctuations in size are OK because that will all work out in the blocking... HAHAHAHAHA.



Sigh... above is the potential layout of my afghan, minus the six squares I took out after much moving of squares around. I took out a handful, even though I wanted a bigger afghan, because the bright green and bright blues that were in them really just didn't mesh well with the muted colors of the rest of the squares. HOWEVER... after I took them out and fretted a bit over (1) having a smaller afghan than I wanted or (2) knitting a few more squares to make it bigger or (3) doing a log-cabin sort of border around it to make it bigger... I thought, "I can overdye the squares I don't like!"... and that's what I've done. They're drying now... so the above layout will change. Good thing I'm only crocheting borders around the smaller ones to make them all the same size, and haven't actually started putting them together!

I'll keep you all posted. I know the rest of you knitting squares are on the edge of your seats...!

What's on your needles?

I'm currently working on Wicked (Ravel it!), using Louet Gems worsted weight. I'm teaching a class on this pattern, love it, and also hear that eventually at some point in the future we might possibly get some cooler weather. In theory. And if we do, I'll be ready!

What's on your needles?

I'm taking Sharon's class on Monogrammed Sweaters, and am so! amazingly! happy! with the results. Seriously, I'm over the moon about how my sweater is turning out.



I'm knitting with Aslan Trends Artesanal and I'm already planning to make another sweater with this same yarn as I love it that much. Well, not THE SAME yarn because then I'd have to rip all this out. But the same brand. Y'all know what I mean!

What's on your needles?

If you've been in the shop any time over the last couple of weeks, you know that Knitting Socks with Handpainted Yarn (Ravelry link) is the topic of choice around here right now.

I've got a pair of socks on the needles right now from that book, the Herringbone Rib Socks (again, that's a Ravelry link, so you must be logged into Ravelry to see that). To make these socks I am using the most recent colorway from Lorna's Laces, Roadside Gerry (in Shepherd Sock). Here are pictures of the yarn and the socks--





As you can see, this is just about the perfect marriage of yarn and pattern.

What's on your needles this week? Anything that you're just as happy with? Or are you maybe even doing something from this book?