Glacier Socks

Monkey socks in Glacier National Park. I started this first pair for the Summer of Socks in Billings, MT and finished them 11 days later in Glacier. Here are the specs:
Pattern: Cookie A's Monkey socks on size 2 circulars (top down).
Yarn: The Woolen Rabbit's 50% Merino/30% Bamboo/10% Nylon Sock yarn in the Red Maple colorway. This was a beautiful, soft yarn to work with and I loved the way the colors moved throughout the socks. I did not check my gauge and I think these socks are larger than the gauge in the pattern, but that is good because I like loose socks (and I have big feet!).

Love this sock yarn!

This is Colinette's Jitterbug 100% merino sock yarn. One skein makes a generous pair of socks. Besides being beautiful, it is easy on the hands, never splits, and feels good on your feet . . . although it definitely isn't a summer sock. But what I really love about it is the way the colors pool as you knit. The pattern is Cassandra Thoreson's "Fools Rush Sock," which is a lot of fun to knit. I'm on my third pair using this pattern.

I've got another skein of Jitterbug in a different colorway that I'm saving for SummerOfSocks, which starts day after tomorrow!
I'm a volunteer blog reader for SOS, and I understand that we each have about 30 blogs to monitor and then report on weekly. Wow! I may have to give up knitting to do all that blog reading. :)

We'll be on the road for the first two days of SOS, arriving in Kalispell, MT on Friday. I told my Technical Support Person (aka: husband, E.B. West) that once we get situated at the campground, his #1 priority is to be sure we have access to email and the internet!
Today we went here . . .
And you can read about it here.

Too early for SOS2007

Here's a couple of pix of my current sock-in-progress taken last week at Garden of the Gods and in front of Pike's Peak in Colorado springs.





I need to hurry up and finish this pair of socks (I'm only on sock #1!) by the 21st when SOS2007 begins. I've already got four skeins of sock yarn ready to go and I just acquired two new skeins today at Wild Purls in Billings, MT (sorry, no shop website). So I'll have to get the swift and ball winder out from under the bed. That's where my stash lives . . . under the bed in the motorhome. Not much else fits under there and I was feeling sorta guilty about "all" that yarn until I got a look at pix of some other yarn addicts' stashes on the SOS flickr site. Mine doesn't hold a candle! There are some really professional stashers out there! You can be sure I showed those flickr stash pictures to my husband, just to be sure he understands what a real stash looks like! We'll tolerate no more complaining about the amount of yarn we're hauling around the country.

Summer of Socks 2007

I'm creating this blog just so I can participate in the Summer of Socks! I never intended to have a knitting blog as I don't really have much to say about knitting. There are far too many excellent knitters already out in the blogosphere who really do have something to say. But you have to have a blog to join the Summer of Socks, so here I am!

I knit all the time . . . and all across the country. Every time we arrive in a new place, I Google the name of the town + yarn to see if I can find any yarn shops. Most yarn is the same from shop to shop and town to town, but what knitters are doing with that yarn changes from one part of the country to the next. So there is always something new to see yarn-wise or pattern-wise.

Ok, let me test post two pictures of a recent pair of socks. I knit these for my Aunt Rose who is a member of the Red Hat Society, hence the red and purple yarn. The heel picture is a little blurry, but I have a new camera since I took these pictures, so I think I'll be a little more focused in the future. (Don't tell Aunt Rose about this blog, because her birthday isn't until next month and I haven't given her the socks yet!)