Uli's Creative Corner

Now, here's an old UFO finally finished.  I started this pair of socks in the summer of 2006, JR was just a baby, I was on mat leave, the Little Miss was probably still going to daycare......... so, I had quite a nice bit of time on my hands.  I started Sivia Harding's wonderful Reptilian Lace socks from Knitty.  A beautiful beaded knit.  I was quite taken by the first sock and remember just being absorbed into knitting it.  Couldn't put them down but since I didn't immediately cast on for the 2nd sock, they sat and they sat and they sat.

Well, one of my New Year's resolutions was to work on some UFO's and this was one.  Here they are, made from Loran's Laces Shepard Sock in the Baltic Sea colourway with beads that blend totally into the colour:


I really liked how they turned out.  I'm also glad they are finally finished.

If you're local, this weekend, I'll be at Fibres West out in Abbotsford.  I have a little table and I'll be selling my wares - stitch markers, shawl pins, bookmarks, cell phone charms, spinning wheel orifice hooks and I might just bring a bit of handspun and some jewelry.  I'd love for you to stop by... if you do come out, please make sure to stop and say HI - I might just snag you to give me a break so I can do some of my own shopping. :-)

Well, since there's been all kinds of icky sickness spreading around our house and I'm sitting here, willing the Little Miss to go to sleep and we've had a bit more sunlight so I can take more pictures, I finally played catch-up on my Ravelry fibre and yarn stash.  My fibre stash is almost all caught up.  There isn't much fibre left that hasn't also been photographed and entered into my Ravelry stash pages.  The yarn........ not even close and I've been trying for at least 1.5 years now to get it all updated.  I do try, however, to get any new acquisitions in there.  My last fairly big yarn acquisition was the Customer Appreciation sale at one of my LYSs.  That was fabulous and it was on my birthday.  What could be better than lining up at 6:30 am on a Saturday morning with many other yarnies in search of that elusive yarn.  See.... this was the line-up when I arrived: