Because it is raining. Not just raining, but pouring. It’s pretty awesome.

I am a very happy person! This means I’ll ger more homework done, and more knitting done. I’m a more productive person when it rains!

I finished a sock on BART yesterday. I was even able to graft it together from memory. Which is saying something, because I usually knit my socks toe up to avoid grafting. Turns out grafting together 28 stitches isn’t really that bad!

The pattern is Charade, which I will never be knitting again. I don’t really like the end result that much. Sure, I like the way it looks with the yarn, but I think I could have picked a better stitch pattern in general. I just… don’t like it. I’m not impressed.

It’s a good thing I made both of these socks short so I could make something else with my plentiful leftovers.

Needless to say, I wouldn’t recommend this pattern to other knitters. There’s nothing terribly wrong with it, it’s just a personal dislike of the stitch pattern.

The pink sock was finished back in August, notice how I still haven’t woven in the ends? I knit that one toe-up, and it was intended for my mom’s tiny feet, so it’s a bit too small for me.

The second sock was started and finished within the last week or so. Commuting to school makes it a lot easier to finish small projects like socks, even when I swamped with homework.

I knit the green and purple sock from the top down, and started with twisted ribbing instead of the traditional 2×2 ribbing. I used a slip stitch heel, and a standard decrease toe. The sock is, again, a bit too small for me because it is designed to fit my mom.

So, why two different colors, you ask? My mom has this thing were she doesn’t ever wear matching socks. It’s part laziness, and part rebelliousness: she feels like wearing mismatching socks is raging against the system. She thinks only preppy people sort their socks into pairs and wear matching ones.

What can I say? She’s my mom and I love her.

Part of the logic behind knitting socks in two different colors with the same stitch pattern was that if she lost one sock, she wouldn’t be losing an identical mate: she’d just be losing one hand knit sock. Which meant that I could easily replace it by knitting up one sock of any pattern I liked. If she loses both socks, well, then she’s on her own.

Both socks were knit with technicolor dream toes yarn from dkknits on 2.5mm needles. The pink was magic loop, and the green and purple was 2 circular needles. The pink color is called Steamy Horizon, and the green and purple color is called Cricket Love Song.

I’ve also managed to finish my lace scarf for London and Paris, but I haven’t yet gotten around to taking pictures of it. I will soon.

Oh - and the boyfriend got me knitting books for my birthday. One is Favorite Socks from Interweave, and the other is the 2nd Barbara Walker stitch dictionary. Apparently I have one more gift on the way, but he won’t tell me if it is knitting related or not. Bastard.

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