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 finally managed to spin a decent fingering-weight yarn!  And it’s prettier in person than it is in the pictures…the color is much more beauteous. 

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! 

It would appear that I’m incapable of spinning fingering-weight yarn!  Last time it was too thin; this time…I managed to get only 90 yards out of half of the 109 grams of roving I dyed, when I should have gotten at least 175 yards.  I fail!  I spun the other half bulky out of spite.   

I spun this yarn a while ago (undyed) when I was teaching myself to Navajo ply (making a 3-ply yarn from a single bobbin), and I just found it last night buried under other yarn.  I asked Chris what color I should dye it, and he said “pink and blue!”.  So it was *supposed* to be a pale blue and pale pink, but I added too much dye and it got really dark!  I like it anyway :P 

I also dyed this roving last night, which I hope will look awesome spun up…I’m going to try to make Navajo-plied sock yarn, so wish me extremely-thin-spinning luck! 

Ta da!  The roving from the other day, all spun up and ready for my Etsy store! 

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: