So I finished my little lacy scarf (and gave it away!) and started on socks—and even cast on for another pair of mittens. But since its just a cast on .... no photos of the mittens.


or around the neck—it finished out at 44 inches (1.05m) –long enough for such a narrow scarf—and here is the cast on and bind off together.. can you guess which is which?

I love the the double chain cast on and matching bind off--have you tried it yet? 
I am slowly but surely turning Debie into a knitter.. She beenill--no not the right work—suffering ill effect of a fall is more accurate--and been visiting doctors on a hourly basis--(oh yeah, her mother has been ill too (the surgical sort of ill, combined with all the ailments a person is prone to, (and more) with advancing age). I hooked her on making I cord with a spool knitter to pass the time--and I-cord is just a gate way drug to knitting.
1 skein of JoAnne's Kashmira yarn later (284 yard!)(Kashmira is a DK weight wool)--she is now sewing together a place mat (hot mat?) that will be felted, too.
And she has expressed interest in learning to make socks!
Oh yeah, socks.. I have been knitting socks, too.
These are my purple iris socks.. the cuff and hem are left over Kroy--(I now just have a few inches of this yarn left in the purple) and the body are Moose Manor Fingering Weight Sock Yarn.
Right now, Betty's (Moose Manors) etsy store is pretty empty—but I will link to it in a few days when she restocks.
The iris color way is just lovely.. and in natural light, there is less contrast between the solid purple and the MooseManor hand painted. I love the little stylized fleur-de-lis on the top cuff.

I wore the scarf to the pool—and Debbie—a pool friend who seems likely to actually turn into a real friend—loved it, and threatened to steal it. So I gave it to her.
She kept asking--This is knitting? Not Crochet? --the lacy pattern does look more like crochet, than lace.. but knit lace it is. Lena--a lady of a certain age, looked at it, and admired the cast on/bind off, too. Lena knits eastern style (yarn round the neck) but not so much any more.
I am slowly but surely turning Debie into a knitter.. She been
1 skein of JoAnne's Kashmira yarn later (284 yard!)(Kashmira is a DK weight wool)--she is now sewing together a place mat (hot mat?) that will be felted, too.
And she has expressed interest in learning to make socks!

These are my purple iris socks.. the cuff and hem are left over Kroy--(I now just have a few inches of this yarn left in the purple) and the body are Moose Manor Fingering Weight Sock Yarn.
Right now, Betty's (Moose Manors) etsy store is pretty empty—but I will link to it in a few days when she restocks.
The iris color way is just lovely.. and in natural light, there is less contrast between the solid purple and the MooseManor hand painted. I love the little stylized fleur-de-lis on the top cuff.
The rest of the sock will just showcase the hand painted yarn--that neither pools or stripes, but just blurs into a field of iris colors. I started with size 2 needles--but I think I will go down to size 1 for the foot--the fabric (of the leg) is just a little to soft for my liking--its fine for the leg (no wear!) but I want a firmer fabric for the heel and sole. Lets hope it doesn't change the soft blur of colors!
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"I-cord is just a gate way drug to knitting." That cracks me up!
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