So, for my final song selection for PRGE Contest 2,
Kat gave me "
Rockin' the Suburbs", which leaves me with an immensely popular letter. What to choose, what to choose! I've kind of run
Social D in the ground, but there is certainly "
Story of my Life." Not so punk, but in my short list of favorite songs is "
Sex Type Thing" by
Stone Temple Pilots. There is "
Swagger" by
Flogging Molly and "
St Jimmy" by
Green Day (while not my favorite song on the album, definitely one of my top 5 albums EVER! Love
American Idiot!) Old favorites "
Superunknown" by
Soundgarden and "
Suite Judy Blue Eyes" by
Crosby, Stills & Nash popped in my mind. BUT, since this IS the
PUNK ROCK gift exchange, I'm going to close out the contest with some classic punk by none other than the
Ramones.
Speaking of "S", I have sock progress. This is the
Boyfriend Sock in Trekking. I really, REALLY like both the yarn and how the sock is coming out
(apologies for the light quality but it's been raining since Saturday evening)!! I did NOT like the
magic-8 cast on. I couldn't figure out how to 'tighten' the stitches after knitting a few rows (and they REALLY needed to be tightened!). I should rephrase that to say I couldn't figure out to do with the extra slack after I tightened the stitches. There was a LOT! Maybe I waited too long and you should be able to work it through into the working yarn, but I couldn't, so I just wove in a loop that was probably close to two inches! I think for sock 2 I'm going to do the magic 8 on smaller needles so that some of the slack will get taken up knitting onto the right size needles.
In other sock news, I got my first
WoolGirl sock club shipment last week. It is AWESOME!
The yarn is from
Mama Llama and is inspired by a
Georgia O'Keefe painting. The extras included notecards with photos of the yarn and the knitted sock, pattern for the yarn, project bag, copper wire and purple bead stitch marker and a woolgirl pen! I'm SO glad I joined the club! This yarn isn't something I'd ordinarly choose for myself (Purple will always lose to reds or browns or greens) but I'm excited to get it OTN. . . as soon as I get some other stuff OFF the needles!
Finally, I sort of dropped out of Project 365. . . I was taking pictures of the pups, but they really just weren't all that interesting after a few, and I didn't want to switch to random subjects. While I was blogging this, though, I noticed Zosia lounging and couldn't resist.
(It's been a rough couple days for puppies. ..lots of rain = no outside play!)
I'm totally blown away by the packages she puts together and I will definitely keep this club going next year! The theme of this month's shipment was Frogs, inspired by the inevitable ripping that all knitters must do. The yarn is the sportweight from Dashing Dachs (I'd never heard of the yarn before, so I'm anxious to try.) Granted, it's a colorway I would NEVER purchase on my own (you can see a better color shot in my Rav stash) but I'm going to give it a shot and knit it up! I don't think I'll use the pattern that we got, though. I'm considering something similar to Jen's Swirly Socks. With all that color, you REALLY need a simple pattern :) Other contents of the package were a calculator, a pencil, a postcard and notebook, a frog sucker, frog stickers, toy frogs and my two favorites, a Gauge measurer by Karatstix and the cutest stick marker EVER by WeeOnes. I love Karatstix's bamboo stuff (I have an Alpaca WPI measurer already) and the detail in the teeny tiny marker is amazing. This is the closest shot I could get that wasn't blurry!
