So many things on the go, so little time!

First - a cardi for me, made with the Frou Frou pattern in The Happy Hooker by Debbie Stoller. I have been waiting about a year to make this pattern, started it about 2 weeks ago, ran out of yarn (gotta expect that when I bought what I could find on special but of course there wasn't enough... ), waited patiently for a rescue parcel of extra yarn to arrive from my sister (what a saint!), and now back to it. It is about three quarters finished.

ahh, it is about 12 times this size now, can't find a more current photo...

secondly - a groovy hat for my groovy brother, I showed him Hip Hats and Cool Caps and asked if there was anything that tickled his fancy, and he chose a hat called "OG". It is mostly finished, but since he is coming to visit this weekend I will wait till then to do some more work on it and do a fitting. I don't want to make it and then have him not wear it cos it is too tight...

thirdly - a pair of mittens for Monkey 2. She asked for some, we bought the yarn together (I don't think that 5 years old is too early to start to learn about yarn buying and stashing!), and I have started them. But I had to stop for a bit since she was being such a toad in so many ways, and the things that I thought were important (like getting dressed, getting out of bed, getting to school less than half an hour late every single day and so on) she was ignoring, so I said that I was going to ignore some of the things she thought were important... so the mittens still aren't done... watch this space. Hopefully they will be finished before the weather warms up again.

fourthly - I have only just started a pair of stripy socks for my gorgeous sister. On the backburner, though, I really want this cardi finished :)

After last year's debacle of trying to read the pattern, I decided to start again to crochet some socks.

I used this pattern by Dorothy Hardy from Crochet Me. Crochet me seems to have done something funky with their indexing, it is a tricky pattern to find unless you search for socks. And the pattern has some errata which can be found be reading the posts responding to the pattern, but since it is a digital pattern why didn't she just adjust the pattern for poor newbies like me? Just wondering is all...

Anyhow, I got some sock yarn from Lincraft, and was determined to get this sock pattern happening!

I had heard all about single sock syndrome (where one sock/mitten/glove) gets made and is lonely forever more. I know my tendency to start something and not finish it, and the bugger with making two things exactly the same, so I made the socks at the same time, the toe bit on one and then the other, the foot bit on both, the heel turn on both, the ankle on both,and finally the cuff on both.

This is closer to the real colour, my phone camera did something groovy to the colours on the top photo...

So the socks were finished while I was away for a few days, and they are toasty warm and lovely! I can't wait to find some way to finance getting some more sock wool so I can make some more socks for me. They fit very well, are so very warm and I feel all nice wearing them since I not only made them but I FINISHED them! Not too shabby for the Queen of starting things and never finishing them :)

Whoo hoo, toasty toes!