Sock update!

Hi Everyone!

I have been in Germany for a week or so now and I'm loving it!

Unfortunately, the Internet here is on and off, mostly off so I am behind on my knitting updates. I have been doing a lot of Knitting. I have started lots of socks for SOS.

Left to right: Vine lace Stockings in Fearless Fibers, Pomatomus in Socks that rock, and Opal, thinking about becoming Jaywalkers.

I finished the top band and put in the elastics for the vine lace stockings on the plane over here before my knitting needles where all taken away from me in the Dublin airport! Beware, when flying through Dublin, NO knitting needles, they are very dangerous weapons! ;)

I joke now, but at the time I was not a happy camper. Thank goodness I was able to check an extra bag and thus save my options set from doom!

I also had a sock nightmare this week.

Remember these?? My smoke ring socks started in April. I finally had a chance to turn the heel and guess what! I ran out of yarn. I know, I should have known. Koigu skeins are known to be on the small side and Gummibaer's feet are huge, but I thought I would be OK because he likes his socks ankle length. I was wrong, I don't even have enough yarn to finish the heel flap

:(

I guess the only thing to do now is pray to the knitting Gods for forgiveness and some more Koigu in the same colorway. I don't have the ball bands here in Germany so I don't know the colorway number. So the socks are in the back and bottom of my knitting basket hiding from my wrath until such time as they can be dealt with.

In other news, I found a yarn store here in Germany! Stay tuned.

Shoes + Stockings

Summer of Socks!!

I am finally joining the fun and starting some stockings! I am making the Vine lace stockings from Knitpicks in Fearless Fibers antique rose colorway.

They match my new shoes!!!

I am changing the pattern significantly because it has no relation to my reality. It is both too big and too small in different places and I am doing a picot hem on the top with a sewing elastic instead of just an elastic thread in hopes that they will stay up without garters.

I am in the throws of wedding cake making and will be heading off to Germany within the week.

Blocking!!!!

Here is the shawl pre-blocking with all my blocking equipment. Yay, welding rods! Here it is blocking, I couldn't get it completely symmetrical But I think it came out well.
The lace looks amazing close up!!!
I hope to get some modeled shots at the wedding over the weekend.

Now that the shawl is done I hope to finally get in on the Summer of Socks! I signed up and was really excited but I have been so busy on the farm and with wedding preparations that I haven't even cast on any socks!

I leave for Germany the day after the wedding and I plan to start something on the plane. I have a 12 hour layover in Dublin and I am really looking forward to walking around the city, if anyone knows of something I should not miss let me know!

Shawl is cast off!

We have been busy here on the farm, here is the crew in the pea patch. We have also been picking Black Raspberries as well as Peppers, Potatoes, Squash, Eggplant, Green Beans and Herbs.

Somewhere in all of this I found time to knit!


Whew! the shawl is cast off, now it only needs blocking. I will be glad to get this project finished and be able to move on to other things.

Detail of the un-blocked edging.

I have not been able to keep up with my blog reading or listening to pod casts, I hope all of you out in blog land are having a good summer!

Food, Food and more Food.

I have been cooking like crazy!

Here are my cookies ready to be sent off to the stores, posing in the sun, they are such hams!

When I am not busy with cookies I make pies. I try to have a little fun with them. I do a different crust pattern for each flavor I make. This one is based on the farm's logo. Now, tell me that is not art!

In my spare time I play, with food of course!

This is my one of my frosting experiments. I am trying to perfect a dairy free frosting for my sister's wedding cake that is yummy chocolate and just the right color and texture. I think this just might be it!