Here’s the mega sock so far. I’ll be working more on this tonight ‘cus Yannick’s not home. These will hopefully be a Valentine’s surprise.

Here’s the mega sock so far. I’ll be working more on this tonight ‘cus Yannick’s not home. These will hopefully be a Valentine’s surprise.

Friday night Julie and Rich came over to play poker. I won. :] I’m allowed to be excited- usually I’m one of the first out ‘cus I work the next day and I want to go to bed. This time I was actually doing really well, neck-and-neck with Rich. It was almost 12 and we had 16 chips different between us so we decided to bet it all on one more hand. I won with a pair of twos and we felt so bad that Yannick decided it would be “best of 3”. Rich won the next hand but on the very last one I managed to pair my Ace on the river card and won. $15…woo hoo!

Saturday after work Yannick and I went to Debbie and Gregg’s place for dinner, movie, more poker and football. Had a really good time, although we watched the movie Red Eye and while I LOVE Rachel McAdams in anything, Cillian Murphey’s eyes totally creep me out. He plays evil waay too well, first in Batman Begins and now in this. The movie was pretty good, although the ending was just a tad abrupt. I was first out in our poker game but luckily I never go anywhere without knitting in my bag so I got more work done on the Fibonacci socks while they played. I finished the 34 rows of cream and have 55 rows of pink to do. I’ve decided that these rows will finish the sock, and I’ll probably do some kind of twisted stitch rib.

Today we slept in (FINALLY) and then I played video games for a bit. Yannick got me totally hooked on Beyond Good & Evil on the Gamecube. I normally don’t play, even though I love anything that has stuff to figure out, because I’m not very precise with the controller. I want the character to move a certain way and sometimes it moves the wrong way and I get very bad vertigo when that happens. I’ll get really naseous and once threw up, just from trying to play video games. In any case, this one is totally up my alley, very cool game, very good premise and a lot of fun to play. I’ll get more into it another time ‘cus it’s almost 9 and I want to get into bed and knit. 🙂

I played most of the afternoon and then started knitting Yannick’s Mega Socks. It’s a new yarn I found at the LYS, called Mega Boots Stretch. More info here: http://www.lanagrossa.com/produkte/02_2005meilenweit_single.php?id=51
I’m making him the color pictured, dark with blues. I also bought the burg/black combo for myself. Up next will be the pic of the sock so far (just the toe, about to turn for the other side) and also 2 pics of my finished Lace Socks. Enjoy!

As promised, here’s the pic of the Fibonacci sock now that I’ve turned the heel. I still don’t know what to do for the cuff though…ribbing seems too boring for this sock, but I need something to give it elasticity… Still thinking about it….

As promised, here’s the pic of the Fibonacci sock now that I’ve turned the heel. I still don’t know what to do for the cuff though…ribbing seems too boring for this sock, but I need something to give it elasticity… Still thinking about it….

As promised, here’s the pic of the Fibonacci sock now that I’ve turned the heel. I still don’t know what to do for the cuff though…ribbing seems too boring for this sock, but I need something to give it elasticity… Still thinking about it….

Too tired to think of a title. My dad was on vacation for the 2 weeks from Christmas until this week and I opened the store every morning on time, and now that he’s back he’s been opening on time, so I’ve been very tired ‘cus my body still wants to stay up at night. Blah.

I turned the heel on the Fibonacci sock last night. This toe-up sock thing is so cool! The other way is easy and great too, but with these socks I didn’t know how long I wanted the cuff part, and so I decided to try it toe-up. I love the heel! So easy! It’s basically a short-rowed hourglass shape that makes the toes, then do the length of the foot and the same short row toe for the heel, then do the body. I don’t know why I’m finding it faster this way, maybe it’s just my imagination. More pictures this weekend though.

I went to my LYS on Monday to get a needle gauge for my cousing Robyn, to pick up more cream Regia 4ply for the Fibonacci socks, and another 6mm needle (an Aero this time) so I can start working on a Homespun jacket without finishing my Goldilocks shrug (remember it?). While there I made the mistake of looking at the sock yarn…don’t tell Yannick! 🙂 I bought 3 100g balls, good for 1 full pair each. 2 for me, 1 for Yannick. I keep wanting to start it so I can have it as a Valentine’s day gift, but each night I sit down to knit he comes home early and wants to hang out!

I can’t believe it’s 2006 already. I’m getting married this year. How cool is that??? Happy belated New Year to everyone.

Too tired to think of a title. My dad was on vacation for the 2 weeks from Christmas until this week and I opened the store every morning on time, and now that he’s back he’s been opening on time, so I’ve been very tired ‘cus my body still wants to stay up at night. Blah.

I turned the heel on the Fibonacci sock last night. This toe-up sock thing is so cool! The other way is easy and great too, but with these socks I didn’t know how long I wanted the cuff part, and so I decided to try it toe-up. I love the heel! So easy! It’s basically a short-rowed hourglass shape that makes the toes, then do the length of the foot and the same short row toe for the heel, then do the body. I don’t know why I’m finding it faster this way, maybe it’s just my imagination. More pictures this weekend though.

I went to my LYS on Monday to get a needle gauge for my cousing Robyn, to pick up more cream Regia 4ply for the Fibonacci socks, and another 6mm needle (an Aero this time) so I can start working on a Homespun jacket without finishing my Goldilocks shrug (remember it?). While there I made the mistake of looking at the sock yarn…don’t tell Yannick! 🙂 I bought 3 100g balls, good for 1 full pair each. 2 for me, 1 for Yannick. I keep wanting to start it so I can have it as a Valentine’s day gift, but each night I sit down to knit he comes home early and wants to hang out!

I can’t believe it’s 2006 already. I’m getting married this year. How cool is that??? Happy belated New Year to everyone.

Too tired to think of a title. My dad was on vacation for the 2 weeks from Christmas until this week and I opened the store every morning on time, and now that he’s back he’s been opening on time, so I’ve been very tired ‘cus my body still wants to stay up at night. Blah.

I turned the heel on the Fibonacci sock last night. This toe-up sock thing is so cool! The other way is easy and great too, but with these socks I didn’t know how long I wanted the cuff part, and so I decided to try it toe-up. I love the heel! So easy! It’s basically a short-rowed hourglass shape that makes the toes, then do the length of the foot and the same short row toe for the heel, then do the body. I don’t know why I’m finding it faster this way, maybe it’s just my imagination. More pictures this weekend though.

I went to my LYS on Monday to get a needle gauge for my cousing Robyn, to pick up more cream Regia 4ply for the Fibonacci socks, and another 6mm needle (an Aero this time) so I can start working on a Homespun jacket without finishing my Goldilocks shrug (remember it?). While there I made the mistake of looking at the sock yarn…don’t tell Yannick! 🙂 I bought 3 100g balls, good for 1 full pair each. 2 for me, 1 for Yannick. I keep wanting to start it so I can have it as a Valentine’s day gift, but each night I sit down to knit he comes home early and wants to hang out!

I can’t believe it’s 2006 already. I’m getting married this year. How cool is that??? Happy belated New Year to everyone.

I also finished the lace socks this week (picture coming soon). I had about 20g of the cream color left in each of the 50g balls and was wondering what to do with it when I remembered the raspberry sock yarn I had stashed away. I thought the two colors reminded me of those raspberry ‘n cream candies, so I started these socks. They are my first toe-up socks, following the directions in Simple Socks Plain & Fancy by Priscilla someone (the book is at work). The stripe pattern is the Fibonacci sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, etc… where every number is the sum of the previous two numbers. I think it’s supposed to make a sequence that’s pleasing to the eye. I like it, anyways.