Yarn Along

I missed my chance today to take a decent photo in daylight.  My apologies for the bad lighting and wrinkly couch cover backdrop!

I cast off my first of the June socks last night and picked up my market bag again today and started sewing down the picot edges.  I hadn’t touched it since before last week’s yarn along!

I’m back in the pattern-making groove because 1) I know I won’t finish my June socks in time and 2) I’m exited that Knit Picks accepted my Birds in Flight Socks pattern.  (Yay!)  Thanks, everyone, for your good luck wishes and for keeping your fingers crossed (and in one case, eyes!) for me.  The positive vibes definitely helped.  : )

The pattern is being test knitted as we speak (thanks, Ellie!) and I’ll knit up a sample to send them soon.  Hopefully the pattern will be for sale on Knit Picks’ website within a month or two.  I think the business of creating and selling original patterns will interrupt my self-imposed sock-of-the-month club, but I guess I’ll have to okay with that for now.  I was already thinking that gardening was taking up some of my valuable knitting time, so this is just one more thing to do in my free time.  And that’s okay.  For now.

Next I’ll submit my market bag pattern to Knit Picks, but not before publishing it here and on Ravelry.

I’m almost finished reading Knitting Without Tears (practically cover to cover!), without casting on a single new project—although I was very tempted.  I’m getting lots of great ideas from this book, and I still can’t believe I’m reading a knitting book recreationally.  It is so good.  Elizabeth’s tips and methods are so smart and I just hope I can remember them all when the time comes to use them.  There were places in the book where I really wanted to use a highlighter, but I don’t want to mark up a book I love so much.  I guess I’ll just have to read it again and again!