I've been thinking of some possibilities for St. Patrick's Day socks. I really love THESE beautiful shamrock socks but I sit on my feet a lot and beaded socks probably won't work for me.









I think these socks may work instead if I find the right color green in my stash. They are the Step Dance socks from Blackberry Ridge's Elite Feet Sock Collection.



I started some mittens from the Anna Zilboorg book using Cascade 220 and size 4 dpns. I was getting 6 1/2 stitches per inch and the mittens were turning out huge. The mittens from the book really need DK weight yarn but I haven't found any DK weight yarn in the beautiful bright colors necessary for these mittens. I am going to have to re-write the pattern using 10 less stitches.



I'm off to the Academy Awards pre-show and many hours of uninterrupted knitting. Life is good.

Be prepared to be bored...







Here's the boring scarf I knit during the blackout. It is 8 stitches across, garter stitch, size 10 needles on some handspun yarn I bought on Ebay years ago. To dye the yarn I put the skein on plastic wrap, then dotted the yarn with various colors of Easter egg dye and zapped it. This technique is outlined in the Twisted Sisters Sock Book.



I'll finish the second Salsa sock tonight then I'm going to start another pair of top-down gauntlet mittens from Anna Zilboorg's Magnificent Mittens in Cascade 220. Stay tuned...

Here's the first Salsa Sock from Socks, Socks, Socks. Regia really isn't the best choice for this pattern - even with an extra pattern repeat the yarn is just too thin for size 2 dpns. I spent almost three hours working in the yarn ends because I was worried they'd come loose.