Can I Get a Drumroll, Please?

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After:

Obviously, the Rot wie Feuer Bayerische socks are no longer "active". The stripiness of the yarn was really obscuring the twisted stitch pattern, and there didn't seem to be much point in spending all of that time cabling when the stripes are all I can see. The bright light makes the photo of the sock in progress looks better than it did in real life. This yarn is destined for greater things, and I'll probably give the Ravelry Sockdown a pass for February since I'm still working on the two pair I started in January.

Given that I'm going to be spending the weekend trying to repair / rebuild my failing, blue-screen-of-death laptop, ripping out an entire weekend of knitting work seemed like a fine idea--I'm so annoyed at my computer that I barely felt a thing. I have use of an alternate computer (obviously), but it's not convenient so if I haven't responded to comments I apologize!! I hope to be up and running again in the next couple of days, although it is a painfully slow process.

Couldn't Build A Fire To Save My Life

The tiny, twisted stitches of Friday have started to turn and wrap around each other, this is (of course) Eunny Jang's Bayerische Socks. I know you've seen it before, because it's in 1,200 queues on Ravelry (plus the 250 already underway). Although I love this yarn (Sundara Sock in Heirloom Tomato), there's a little more stripey-ness to the color that I expected, and I'm not sure I really love it. I'd like to go a little further, though, before I give up. These Rot wie Feuer (red like fire) socks may become wristwarmers, or may end up in a different sock form. One thing is certain--all these tiny stitches take a lot of time.

It's Friday, I'm In Love

These tiny twisted rib stitches on size 0 needles are making me very happy. I'm not sure if the happiness will hold, or if this is the beginning of socks that will never end, or if this is a crazy control-freak reaction to an out-of-control week at work. Either way, at 10:49pm on Friday, February 1, I love them.