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I finished my Sockina Cotton socks:

I knit these from the toe-up with Judy’s Magic Cast On. Worked in Stockinette on 56 stitches, reverse heel flap with Eye of Partridge stitch under the heel and 3×1 ribbing on the leg. Very soft and pretty colors but, no matter how much nylon and acrylic you mix with cotton, it’s never got that nice stretch that wool has!

I started a new pair of socks, the pattern is Cabletini by Wendy Johnson and can be downloaded for free from The Loopy Ewe’s website. The yarn is Dream in Color’s Smooshy in Giant Peach. Now I understand the Smooshy obsession. Yes the yarn is nice and smooshy but it’s the slightly variegated color that I’m in love with. This picture is from a week ago-ish, I’m past the heel now:

The Kauni Eleanor Stole continues to be my favorite thing to grab for TV knitting. These colors are overly bright but you get the idea:

I’ll get a picture outside when the sun is out someday. I’m further than this, well into the purple, heading back towards red now.

The Secret of the Stole began on 10/5 but I started about a week late since I put off ordering beads till the last second and they arrived on 10/12. I love these beads, I bought them from EarthFaire:

I believe the color is called “Metallic Gold Iris.” So lovely with the KnitPicks Shadow yarn in Lost Lake:

I’m getting caught up slowly. Here is Clue 1 finished:

I finished Clue 2 last night and it is blocking right now. Clue 3 came out this past Friday so I may actually be caught up when Clue 4 is out. I’m absolutely loving knitting lace. I mean, real lace with laceweight yarn. It is definitely not TV knitting but working on it requires such concentration and focus that it is almost meditative.

And because I seem to have a real case of Startitis lately, I cast on for the Doctor’s Bag from Knit 2 Together by Tracey Ullman and Mel Clark:

I’m going to call it my Mary Poppins Bag because it looks like one of those nice big bags that you can stuff all kinds of things into and constantly surprise people with what you pull out of it! Here’s a close up on the lovely Herringbone stitch pattern:

The yarn I’m using is Cascade 220 Heathers in a lovely peach/pink color. The bag is knit with two strands held together on size 11 needles so I can only do a bit at a time before my hands start to ache and I switch to something else.

I’m still not finished with my Dad’s Birthday Sweater if you were wondering about that. I ran out of yarn on the second sleeve and even though my extra balls have arrived, I seem to have stalled out somehow. I knit so much on it so fast and so exclusively that I think I burnt out a bit. I suspect this is what is fueling my startitis as well but I suppose the only way to know is to finish the thing! And I want to, I’m really thrilled with how it is turning out. I just have so many other lovely projects in the works… but then it’s hard to enjoy other knitting when there is a voice in the back of my head reminding me that I really should be finishing the sweater. So I pledge right here and right now that I will not knit on the Secret of the Stole, the Kauni Eleanor Stole, or the Mary Poppins Bag until Dad’s Birthday Sweater is complete. The socks are fair game. Socks are always fair game and are actually absolutely necessary for travel knitting and TV knitting when the other option is a large object with cables and charts.

So there’s the knitting news. I have a new chapter of Anne of Green Gables recorded and plan on editing it in the next day or so. I wish I could get them out more often, it is just very difficult for me to read or spend long periods of time on the computer with my dizziness issues. But I promise I will finish out this book, hopefully by the end of the year.