Thursday, June 21, 2007

Day One

I was so excited to begin knitting today. I brought my yarn to work so I could cast on over lunch (Summer of Socks began at 5 am EST... or 11 am here in Germany). And I proceeded to knit while I was "waiting on an experiment." And then I knit on the bus ride home. And most of the evening (I stopped to go to the grocery store and eat dinner). And all night. And now it's 3 am and I'm this far:


Sorry the picture is crap. I just took it and obviously the lighting at 3 am kind of sucks for picture taking. But anyways, as you can see, I've already turned the heel. People say that the Monkey socks go fast.... and man they weren't kidding! I'm knitting them on 2.5 mm aluminum needles. And it's in the Wollmeise superwash sock yarn in Campari-Orange (soooooo pretty.).

That's all for now I suppose... I should really get to bed. Oh, also wanted to say that C and I are headed over to Freiburg for the weekend, so there won't be any updating between now and Monday. Plenty of knitting will be taking place though... long train rides are good for that!

Happy Knitting!

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow! Excellent progress for the first day of knitting!

Elemmaciltur said...

Wow! Wollmeise Monkey! That's great!!!

Tracey said...

LOVE that yarn! Its soo pretty for that pattern. Congrats on getting very far today.

I'm in Canada, and I forgot about the time change, cause at first I was thinkings its only 8am here and you've already knit that much! ha ha!

Good Job, can't wait to see the finished pair.

Anonymous said...

Great progress - looking good!

Manda said...

wow, you're making really good progress! :) i love that wollmeise yarn. I wish I could get my hands on some! :D

Dharmafey said...

ohhhh to wollmeise.....can't wait til we can get it here in the US. great socks--can you believe I missed out on the signups?

Carrie said...

Even with the dark photo, it's clear that the colors of your yarn are beautiful--great job on the Monkey. I love those country knitting bags in your profile photo, too!

Fairytale Frog said...

All of those sock yarns are gorgeous! And I am jealous of your sock speed woman! Dear me! it takes me forever :(