The Power of Knitting is Fierce
Thanks so much everybody for your wonderful and mood-lifting comments! You guys made me laugh — especially Gleek who said “we yarn-buying ANIMALS totally hosed your server!! 
the power of knitting is fierce.” And we all know that with great power comes great responsibility…
So in celebration of the new dedicated server and yarn-buying animals everywhere, 10% of the sales on Monday will go towards the Canadian Cancer Society via my friend, Jazzi, who is participating in the Relay for Life on June 9 in Salt Spring Island.
Michelle was superfriend yesterday and when I said something about “this is the kind of day that needs wine”, she bought me a bottle of Cedar Creek Ehrenfelser — a wine that’s been described as “fruit salad in a glass”. Ah yes, because that’s what friends do. They bring wine on bad days.
But last night, during dinner (much to the amusement of the waiter), I finished my Pomatomus socks and Michelle finished Kate Gilbert’s Anouk — Michelle’s version is knit in denim yarn with the cutest red ladybug buttons. Must get a photo of it! My socks are here:
…and now I can continue to work on Fair Isle Yoke Cardigan (Elizabeth Zimmerman)…
The photo is of the left shoulder… and yes, there are no real sleeves yet. The EZ method is to knit the body in the round, then knit two sleeves separately in the round, then join them all together and start the fair isle yoke bit. Same idea as the Hourglass Sweater except that the Hourglass has raglan shaping and the EZ cardi has round shaping (evenly spaced decreases).
I wanted to break up the long stretches of plain, grey stockinette rounds, so rather than knitting up sleeves, I just did a provisional cast-on for the number of stitches that I want at the top of the sleeve and joined the “sleeves” to the body. Now I can enjoy the fair isle portion of the sweater. When it’s all done, I’ll just pick up the sleeve stitches and knit down to the wrist. Easy and lazy.
Happy weekend!
Tags: fair isle
Yay for beautifully completed pomatomi! I’m really obsessed with this pattern; I love seeing other peoples’ finished socks and I’m bummed that with this shift in the weather I’ll be wearing my own less often!
I love your socks!the colors came out great…I still need to knit those
cant wait till monday!
hahaha, glad i could make you laugh. i had a good chuckle when i saw your site go down because i’ve seen it happen so many other places. the tech guys must be shaking their heads. never did they imagine that yarn could cause such a frenzy!
oh, and i love the color of those socks! so rich and saturated.
The socks are pretty, love that libertine colorway!
And your fair isle yoke cardi is lovely, can’t wait to see more.
Those socks look a-Mazing! I love how the variations of the yarn colours accentuate the “fan” pattern of the sock.
Nice Fair Isle. I just did a Fair Isle swatch this week and almost lost my mind with 6 colors. I decided to do the Faroese pattern from Meg Swanson’s book - just 3 colors and same pattern allover. Are you using a pattern from one of the EZ books? I just downloaded an argyle vest pattern from Eunny and she has detailed steeking instructions - thank god. Can’t wait to see how your Fair Isle shapes up!
Looking forward to seeing your EZ when it’s finished - I’m sure it’ll be another stunning sweater.
Lovely p-socks and sweater. Have a good weekend.
Diggin’ the fishy socks.
I’m sketching some fair isle ideas too for an EZ inspired yoke sweater. I like your construction idea- have dessert first!
Diggin’ the fishy socks.
I’m sketching some fair isle ideas too for an EZ inspired yoke sweater. I like your construction idea- have dessert first!
Those socks have awsome stitch definition.
Beautiful socks.
Hey Felicia! I have been “out” for awhile (see blog, scroll back!) and have just caught up once again on yours. I love your Hourglass. I did mine in Southwest Trading Company’s bamboo yarn and had the same slouching but oh well, I still love it. I’m also doing Cascading Leaves right now. I agree that the pattern should have gone down the foot, but we can modify, eh? Hope you are well. LeAnne
Love those socks! I’m not brave enough to attempt them though.
Love the socks. The EZ cardi is on my must knit list and coming up soon. Can’t wait to see your progress on that one.
Love those fish!!!
I love love love how your Pomatomus socks came out! some colors are so iffy…these colors are just soooooo right.
Your P-socks are splendid. The yarn and the pattern work beautifully together!
Those socks look great!
I just scored myself some candy floss from your sweet shop…it looks fantastic!
I guess I’ll catch your sale next time as you are all out…did you post the time on Monday? Its 2:00pm and all is gone….