So everyone always talks about how crappy Sugar n’ Cream yarn is (”dishcloth cotton”, if you will), but when I saw all the fun bright colors they had at Michael’s the other day, I got overly excited and bought some - bright orange, bright blue, pale yellow, and bright red.  I bought them with awesome cotton slouchy summer hats in mind, and hey, if they turned out crappy I was only wasting $1.69 a hat.

So I made this awesome hat out of the bright orange, and it turned out GREAT!  I can understand why you wouldn’t make, say, a sweater out of this yarn, but it’s great for hats.  The coolest part of this hat is that it’s worked inside out…the “outside” is ribbed, but then you turn it “inside out” and it’s all awesome and bumpy!

The back is the best part…

What does a really nerdy person knit? A handspun dice bag for role playing, of course…and then, apparently, she names it after her World of Warcraft character

My Erinndaii bag:

I also made some socks from some sock yarn remnants Dani handed off to me…and everyone informed me that they look like bacon.  Hence, the Baconator Baby Socks!

So I finished the actual bag part of my curbing bag today, and grafted/kitchenered the bottom together. I don’t have any fabric to line it yet, and I am really not looking forward to making icord for the handle. I may wait (although seeing as I have negative money, it could be an extraordinary amount of time) until I can get one of those little round loom things to make it. I also don’t think I have enough of any matching/coordinating color to make a single-colored long icord. I guess I can just keep attaching new colors as I run out and they can just be random and rainbow…

Anyhow, here’s what’s done -

I finally finished them!  And I love them!  

And as I predicted, Chris wants a pair for himself - good thing he can’t fit into mine.

 

I’m pretty happy with them!  If I were to do them again though, I’d shape the bigger toe cap a little differently. 

Currently I’m a little past the heel…not sure how long I want to make the cuff yet though.  I’m thinking they’ll probably end up being short socks, since that’s what I tend to wear in the summer. 

I wanted to make tabi socks to wear with my flip flops this summer.  I attempted the Lickety Split pattern, but it completely confused me and made me want to bang my head against the wall.  So I decided to make up my own pattern, using my normal toe-up sock techniques.  I used magic cast on, and I made two toe caps at a time - both big-toe caps, and both 4-toe caps.  Then I kitchenered them together, picked up a few stitches, and tada!  

So I’m pretty proud of myself for actually figuring that out on my own.  Now I just have to knit to the heel, turn it, and knit the cuff! 

I can’t stop knitting on my curbing bag!  

I keep telling myself  ’just one more row, then I’ll stop’, but I can’t put it down! I’m working on my seventh “row” right now.  I think part of the addiction is that I get to keep switching yarns…not just colors, but fibers, weights, textures…it’s the perfect solution to my two-second yarn attention span! 

Oh and it’s a *great* project for handspun…I have lots of thick-and-thin bits of stuff I’ve spun, in smallish amounts, which looks awesome on this bag!

 

I also dyed this roving last night:

So if anyone has any ideas/gut feelings about what these should be named…

I just dyed this one a week or so ago…it was (originally) Knit Picks Bare bulky weight:

And I dyed this one a while back, and somehow forgot to take pictures…Knit Picks Bare fingering weight:


 

Oh and I got one whole sock done for Chris today!  He may actually live to see a pair of hand-knit socks! 

 

Also started a curbing bag, which looks awesome so far…I’m planning on making it HUGE so I can fit everything in it… 

 

So on Saturday I went to two of the coolest yarn stores in the world - The Yarn Barn in Lawrence, KS, and The Studio in KC - and I got some awesome yarn! It’s too bad I didn’t have much fun since my stomach/IBS has been acting up pretty badly lately, which pretty much makes going anywhere no fun, but at least I got some awesome yarn!

Sock yarns:

Two big skeins of laceweight, and the other three are stuff my sister picked out (which I will at some point turn into finished objects, hopefully):

Oh and I also finished my sister’s socks (toe up, two at a time on magic loop)…I don’t like the way the heel turned out, I think I’ll stick to my not-as-easy-but-tighter Japanese short-row method:

Look! Look! I have two socks going at once…on one circular!

I don’t think I’ll ever do one sock at a time again…this is awesome!

Excellent tutorial here, in case you want to learn…

Oh and I dyed this yarn (Knit Picks Bare DK weight merino) the other night:

And I spun and dyed this one - it’s a single, about light fingering weight: