Somehow it happens, that on Sundays we drift to the huge American bookstore at the nearby retail park. This time the plan was only to go test whether there's a wifi connection available at Starbucks: apparently that's something they advertise a lot.
Well, they didn't have it, so we just had frappucinos and a piece of cheesecake.
I read a book by Stel Pavlou, called Decpiher. They seem to admire this on Amazon, but I personally wasn't too impressed. Ok, he studied a lot for it and the idea is really interesting and the realisation new, but still the book was somehow sensation-seeking and repeated it's own patterns.
I made it, my first real pair of socks is ready and in use. The new owner seems happy enough to have recieved them (well, he saw me working on them hard), but to be honest they are not the best-made socks I've seen.
I chose the wrong cast-on, made the heelpflap bit weird, and picked up way too many sticthes - and decrased far too slowly to fix that mistake. Did I mention I had too big needles? Or well, maybe not, the airy effect is nice, but the new sockowner is concerned they'll break right away. They might, who knows.
A word (or a picture) of warning to all you out there who won't swatch. Remember my hat I was knitting a week back? Here it is knitted up. Nice, huh?
I thought it just might be a big too big for anyone, so I simply frogged it.
Now I'm thinking should I try to knit the hat again, or just to use the yarn for something else.
The hat was really fun to make; I actually got a serious knitting need last monday and practically finished it in a few hours.
I decided I need to Flash my stash too, even if it would be too late. So here it goes!
Since I've been knitting only since last autumn, I guess this is quite ok... and I DO knit from it!
