I spent much of my day today knitting. (What a great way to spend a weekend!!)

My goal for the weekend was to finish my Lola Walking Rib socks. I’m almost there. Last night I finished knitting the first sock, and this morning I grafted the toe. I cast on the second sock early in the afternoon, and I just finished turning the heel and decreasing so I can knit the foot. So I’m almost there!

I made the leg a bit shorter than was called for in the pattern, so they look a little disproportionate in pictures, but in person I think they look good. It’s only the second sock (aside from baby socks) that I’ve knitted, so I’m happy. I think this pair is going to a Christmas gift for my grandmother actually.

Speaking of gifts — I’m hoping to knit quite a few of my Christmas gifts this year. These socks will be the first homemade gift I’ve finished making so far this year. I have another gift for someone else about 1/3rd of the way finished. I want to make up cute tags for my knitted gifts too, so I can put washing instructions and such on them. I’d hate to give someone a gift and then have them feel bad if they washed and dried it and wound up with a felted wool mess. Heh.

Check out what came in the mail today!!
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It’s lovely merino sock yarn from Whorled Peace. The colorway is Royal Blue over Wasabi.

I just love the subtle color variations. I have a tendency to always buy sock yarns that are drastic color variegations, and while that’s great, for some patterns a more solid or semi-solid yarn is much better. So when I saw this particular semi-solid, I HAD to have it! This one is going to have to go in the stash for a little while though, because I need to focus on gifts and I want this one for myself… heh.

I started reading Laurie Perry’s (a.k.a. Crazy Aunt Purl) Drunk, Divorced and Covered in Cat Hair last night. In the beginning, I was nearly in tears. Later on, I was actually laughing out loud. It’s such an emotional, heart-felt book. The part (so far) that cracked me up the most was her explanation of ‘Advanced Cooking ADD’ — what a RELIEF. Now I know there’s a name for the disease I’ve suffered from all my life! (Hehe.) I’m only about halfway through the book, but I’m enjoying it SO much. I can’t wait to go meet Ms. Perry and have my book signed a week from Monday!

Anyway, aside from the gift-making, I have some projects in the works for myself too: I’m supposed to be going to see a midnight show of Rocky Horror Picture Show next weekend, so I decided I need to knit myself a skinny eyelash yarn scarf (a pseudo feather boa) for that. I’m also planning to pick up some ink jet iron-on transfer paper to make a custom t-shirt with the RHPS lips logo on it. Or at least, that’s my plan. We’ll see how it goes…

… So many projects, so little time.