Friday updates

I'll try and make this a short post.. we'll see. There's not really much to report, except that I've updated my Finished Objects blog to include all the Top Secret Projects. Here, for example, is the Sparkly Pink Scarf that was TSP 3, as modelled by my sister, and in close-up.

And here is her Booga Bag (TSP 4)


The socks will be joining them as soon as the ends are woven in, and I can get a good picture of them on Terry's feet. She loves them, though they are a little thick to be anything but bedsocks really.

I cast on the Patons Grace cotton yarn from the previous post to start more socks, but I've almost decided to rip out the 3 inches I've got done. Being cotton, there's no stretch to the yarn, so I have to knit it fairly tightly, which is hard on the hands, especially on size 2 needles. Plus I have this suspicion that they'll bag and fall down around my ankles as soon as I put them on . Now while I may have been used to this at school, it's not what I want from socks now. So if anyone has any suggestions on how to use the yarn, let me know. Otherwise I'll take at least the 2 unused skeins back to Michaels.

So I did cast on with the Cascade Fixation sock yarn I bought at Threadbear last month, and am having great fun with the Broadripple socks from Knitty. Funnily enough, the pattern was designed by one of Threadbear's owners, which makes it all the more appropriate. I'm liking this one a lot. Here are the Socks So Far:

Cotton Sock in basketweave pattern (Rows 1&2: k2p2, Rows 3&4: k)	Cascade Fixation sock in ripple pattern held up by my lovely wife

The other knitting news is slightly less fun: I finally got through to British Airways at Metro Detroit airport, and nobody had found my notions case. So I've lost all my crochet hooks (including one that was from my mum), my stitch markers, cable needles, tapestry needles, tape measure, yarn scraps etc etc. Serves me right for not paying closer attention to my stuff I guess. Oh well.

We've got dinner guests tonight, so I'll be cooking stuffed pancakes (though I was somewhat tempted to try out Michelle's Honey Mustard Chicken recipe) which means some shopping, and a lot of house tidying have to happen between now and 7pm. Have a great weekend! (And so much for a short post! Hah! I couldn't be concise if an abstract depended upon it...)