Created By Artsygal

A few weeks before my move to California, I was planning out my road trip knitting. I had decided that one of my projects that I took on the road with me was to be something for either Jon or Randy, my friends who were helping me haul all my belongings cross country. I left it up to them to decide who I was going to knit for, and it turns out Randy won. So I pointed her to my stash, err I mean shop to choose a skein that she liked. This is one of the advantages of running a dyeing business - there's always a good selection of yarns for a friend to choose from when you want to knit them something. Armed with yarn and several pages of pattern printouts, I set out on my cross country trip. Here's how far I got.

Yup.. that's a partial cuff, no longer on the needles. I learned an important lesson here - don't just assume that because I always use 2.25 mm needles with this yarn, that I don't need to check the pattern for needle size. Twisted stitches pull in a LOT, and this cuff was entirely too small. Did I have larger needles on me? Of course not.

The sock got frogged in Parachute, Colorado where we were stuck for a couple of hours while waiting for the Uhaul version of AAA. Apparently one of the tires on our trailer was starting to come apart - and we sure as heck weren't going to continue driving cross country that way! At that point in a mission to get Randy to cross over to the dark side, I offered her the yarn and some needles.

Yup.. she's knitting. Notice the completly disgusted look on Jon's face in the background?

Oh yeah.. back to Pomatomus - once I got settled in here, I found larger needles and cast on again. Took them with me when we went up to the bay area over the labor day weekend and managed to knock out a whole sock in about three and a half days! That has to be some sort of record for me. (Don't look too closely at the toes though - that's just a temporary grafting. I haven't found any needles to properly kitchner the toes closed yet. If they don't surface soon, I may have to give in and go buy more.)

Sock number 2 is in the works right now, though it's not going nearly as fast as the first. I'm sure it will be done in time for cooler weather though!