I designed these socks for my husband’s mom after she had foot surgery.  Our Niece calls her Gee.  How cute two year olds can be :)  I used Paton’s Astra in a dark and light pink for this project.  Using a simple DK weight sock pattern, nothing fancy but the color changes.  If I were to do it over again, knowing how much yarn I had left over I would have extended the cuff of the sock and put a stripe of color at the top.  I was able to use the leftovers to make a matching pair of toddler socks for the Niece though.

Here are the socks in progress.  This was also my first time taking a sock pattern for 4 DPN’s and using the magic loop method to do two of them at a time.  I only had to take one sock completely off to readjust the heel stitches after the gusset was finished.  Then I put them back together.  Two small circular needles of one size smaller comes in very handy for this (16 in).  This does solve the second sock syndrome.

WOW! The first pair of socks that fit me.  I finally finished these a week after my birthday.  I am now trying to learn knitting two socks at a time on one circ.  These were done using the magic loop method one at a time.

This is my first raglan sweater.  I started with a Ravelry free pattern, but it didn’t size right, and my gauge was off by .5 sts per inch.  So I just added a few increase row.  It is the Birthday Sweater pattern, and how fast it is going, I hope to have it done by the end of this month.  I will either start a new sweater (number 3 of this year) or finish up some UFO’s.  I am not exactly sure right now.

Okay, I have no clue how this happened, but I love it!  I was making a mobius scarf because my friend made one and I loved it.  I had to double my stitches though because I was using an almost fingering weight and she was using a bulky weight.  I used a size 5 needle and when I cast on my stitches I accidently twisted it twice instead of once.  But since I am folding the scarf in two the twists match up perfectly.  I cast on 300 sts.  It is about 55 inches around and about 4-5 inches wide.  I used the rest of the yarn that I ripped from the sweater that I also made the arm warmers from.  It was about 400 yds of yarn.

This was knit from some leftover sock yarn.  This took about 75 yds of yarn.  The pattern can be found on Ravelry.  I had to use a safety pin to do the cables because the yarn is so tiny.  It went fast though, and the cables were fun.  The top has been stretched out from use, but now it fits really well on the cup since the bottoms are small and the tops are larger.