Only 207 people in front of me on Ravelry!! omg weeeeeee! Just a couple more days.

My LFFCS/BOBA (Luna Flickering Flames Circular Skirt/Bucket of Boiled Ass) is progressing nicely. I’m just at the point where I increase from 320 stitches to 640. It looks roughly the same as the last picture. Since progress is really boring to report on this project, I’m going to catch the blog up on one I finished before I started blogging regularly again. I have several of these I’m holding back for blog fodder. So without further ado, I give you:

These are the Horcrux Socks that I knit for the Six Sock Knitalong. See the lightning bolt pattern above the ankle? The pattern designer was wondering if Harry’s scar was a horcrux and so named these socks. They’re knit in Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock Black Purl. I love this yarn and the socks were fun to knit. It got a little weird around row 15, but I figured it out. I knit them toe up, 2on2 circs using Crazy Toes and Heels. Finished May 15, 2007.

I finished the back on the Weasley Sweater I’m knitting the Boy. Time to cast on for the front.

But first a break to work on the pink socks. I’m almost to the gusset increases. I really love this two socks on two circs thing!! I’m searching the internet for a pattern with a turned heel (not the short row), that’s written for toe up, two socks on two circs. No luck so far. I may have to resort to removing one from needles while I do the heel, then putting it back on. I’m hoping to avoid that. Everything else about this sock is turning beautifully!!

I ordered some Lorna’s Laces yarn from Ebay. Two skeins each of Shepherd Sport and Shepherd Sock. I’ve been hovering over the mailbox ever since. I won’t be able to start them yet, but that won’t stop me from fondling them. Yarn pervert, that’s me.

I got the Aran Knitting book from the library. It’s loverly. I wrote to Interweave Press to ask if they ever planned on reprinting it, and they promptly replied to say that Alice Starmore owns all the rights, and there was some small possiblility she was considering a revision. That would be pretty cool. It’s a shame that this beautiful work is out of the financial reach of many of us. I’d pay the author $35 - $50, but not $230 on Ebay.

I had my heart set on St Brigid, but the Rock Star said he doesn’t like it. He likes all the detail, but the fit of the sweater looks like a flour sack, he said. I’m bummed. If he doesn’t like it, it takes some of the fun out of it for me. I’m well aware that I can knit and wear any damn thing I like, but I like to have him like what I’m wearing. If I’m gonna put that much money, work and time into a garment, I really want him to like it, too. I like St Ciaran a lot. I can imagine myself cozied up on the couch wrapped in that. And the cables and celtic design is just as gorgeous as St Brigid.

This is the pink sock after it was frogged. It looks like some tasty dessert doesn’t it?

Here’s what it looks like now:

As you can see I’ve figured out how to do two socks, toe up on 2 circs. I’m pretty pleased with it so far. I am just a bit worried that it might be too big. Got kind of crazy with the increases…