Found via Bookslut via Bookninja:
“My best neologism is still “douché” — what you say when conceding defeat to an asshole.”
I cannot stop laughing. The most perfect word ever.
WHOA NELLY!
January 16, 2006 By
Did you see 24 last night?!?! HOLY CRAP! G and I are still talking about LAST season, which we thought was right up there with the first season. And maybe the second. The third was a little weak, but OHMYFUCK! This one is shaping up just fine, and we’re only two hours in! As long as I still got my soul patch, I’m good. G, of course, has the man crush on Jack, but I’m all over Tony A. I’m thinking of getting G one of these t-shirts. What do you think?
As goofy as it all is, it’s kind of nice for both of us to be so excited about something, you know, together. I’ve decided the reason 24 is so satisfying is because it has just enough soap opera for me, and just enough inane unnecessary violence for G. And there’s just enough oh my god that would so never happen in a million years but isn’t it fun to fantasize to keep everyone happy. Thanks Jack! We really need you right now.
In other news, are you a sky watcher? I am!
Facing West, taken around 8:30 this morning off my balcony. Sandy, my love, my hair was extra wild today and the jammies were on and it was FREEZING!
Thanks for all the offers of help with the Jaywalker KAL. I didn’t mean to sound as if I was complaining about the updates, I’m really not, I was just saying that with the amount of people involved, it’s not really feasible to do the funny epic updates I was doing. I really like going through all the blogs – I’ve made some new friends that way, really, and it’s great seeing what everyone is up to. I honestly thought about doing a separate blog for jaywalkers – I’ve already got one set up for CIT, and I’ve been involved in KALs like that before, but I wanted to keep track of this one myself for the giveaway. There are rules I’ve asked participants to comply to in order to be entered in the drawing and I want to be able to keep on top of that. Maybe after Feb 14th I’ll set up another blog, but for now, I’m good. Thanks again though for all the suggestions.
I’ve had a pretty productive weekend, including a nice outing with Jen yesterday, replete with KILLER BIRDS, but that’s for tomorrow’s post. (Jen, thank god you were there – I don’t think ANYONE would believe me if you hadn’t been there. It really happened right?) In the meantime, I can’t stop giving stuff away.
Be the FIRST to identify, in the comments, what I’ve been knitting this weekend (pictured above) EXACTLY, and I will send you a skank of Prove It All Night Socks That Rock and an orange chibi. Leave your guesses in the comments. And if I TOLD (or emailed you) about it, you are NOT ELIGIBLE. Oh yeah and here’s a clue. It’s NOT a jaywalker.
Jaywalker Nine!
January 13, 2006 By
Honeys, we’ve reached the Tipping Point.
It’s 5:13 PM EST on Thursday and we’ve got over 250 people signed up for this KAL. The way things are going, I would wager that by the time I hit publish on this post tomorrow morning ten more people will have signed up. I think I can safely say that this knitalong has reached the proportions of Clapotis, Rogue, Birch – whatever came before that I don’t know. It’s INSANE. I never, ever, in my wildest dreams thought it would come to this. NEVER. I have to say, honestly, it’s making me a little bit uncomfortable. I was reading over at Stephannie’s today and she had a very compelling post. I’m quoting it with her permission:
“There’s an interesting tension in the knitting world…. It’s about whether to join a trend on the blogs.
Do you knit the Jaywalker socks or not? If you really like them and have sock needles free and the right yarn, are you a mindless trend follower or are you just knitting what you like, recognizing that lots of other knitters like it too? How does something become a big knitting trend anyway–the next Birch or Clapotis or Jaywalker or Rogue?
In the end it shouldn’t really matter to anyone else what you knit or what you do with your knits. We all come to this craft with differing sets of motivations and desires and that’s what makes it fun. Yesterday at Lettuce Knit (yes, I finally attended a Stitch’n’Bitch and had a great time) there was a woman knitting a beautiful Jade Starmore steeked stole, two of us making jaywalker socks, some blankets, a baby sweater and a nifty-box in progress. Some swore they would never make Jaywalker socks now that they are the thing, others were thinking about it despite the teasing of their friends.
Really in the big world out there, we are not a trendsetting sub-culture that will be on the cover of People magazine, we won’t get to the front of the line at the “right” bars because we knit. And we like it that way. We’re used to be on the outside of what the media deems as popular culture. So who cares if a bunch of us knits the same thing?”
Steph’s post came a very interesting time for me – what with my inbox filling up every five seconds with people wanting to get in on the KAL. I, myself, follow along the lines of I knit what I knit when I want to knit it and am not one to follow trends – in knitting or in my life in general. In fact, I’m often one of those people that WON’T go along with the crowd – sort of following Groucho’s maxim: I wouldn’t want to be a member of any club that would have me as a member. Along those lines, this is my reply to Stephannie:
This is such a tough question for me! I’m generally one who really likes to go along with my own thing – only knitting things I really want to knit.
I have knit Clapotis – and I enjoyed it. It was the perfect gift for a friend and I got to use glorious silk yarn and over all I was very pleased with it. That said, I haven’t knit any of the other knits you listed. Except of course The Jaywalker.
Ah the jaywalker. As I said before, I knit what I want to knit. How did I find the sock? Well, I had come home from Rhinebeck with a lot of STR, lol, and was looking for the perfect pattern. I really don’t like the whole feather and fan sock thing – at all – and I’m not a real chevron fan either – although an argument could be made that the Jaywalker is a chevron. There was something about the clean lines and stripey goodness and I cast on. I never swatched. I never deliberated about size. I just cast on and started to knit and I LOVED the way the yarn looked. And of course, I love the STR. I mean how could you not love that yarn? But anyway, back to jaywalkers. I was EXTREMELY lucky in that the pattern fit right off the bat, if not a tad tight over the heel, and I managed to make a pair without running out of yarn and it really was one of those fated yarn things where the pattern and the yarn and the wearer all kind of had a kismet relationship.
So I tried to see if I could duplicate that lightning strike again. And I did. And I did. And believe it or not I cast on for sock #14 last night. I’ve got six pairs of finished jaywalkers with no end in sight.
Did I mean to start some kind of crazy knitblog fad? ABSOLUTELY NOT! In fact it’s starting to drive me a bit crazy all those jaywalkers out there. Believe it or not, I feel COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY responsible when someone has fit trouble or runs out of STR or basically hates the sock.
The only reason I keep knitting them is because I love how they look and I love how they feel on my feet. I love the yarn. In fact I have all this other non-STR sock yarn that would be perfect for jaywalkers and I can’t do it. It’s like they have to be STR, for ME, or nothing else. And I’ve seen some great jaywalkers out there with other yarns, yarns I have in stash, but I guess my goal is to work my way through the small(er) skeins of STR in the stash – stuff I know how to make a pair of fantastic socks with.
Each pair I cast on is my new favorite pair. I completely understand the idea of I’ll never make them because everyone else is making them and honestly, I’ve done that in my life. Not wanted to do something because everyone else is doing it. At this point I’m like THANK YOU! That’s one less update I have to worry about. 😉 Although it also makes me a little bit sad because, you know, I do think it’s a great pattern.
In the end, what’s so AMAZINGLY WONDERFUL about knitting is that there’s stuff like this out there! You can knit what everyone else is knitting, or you can’t or you can make up something on your own or be inspired by something else or knit dishclothes all day long and be EXTRAORDINARILY HAPPY! How LUCKY are we to have found such an amazingly diverse outlet for our creativity!
Thanks for your post and I’m sorry to take up so much space – I probably should’ve saved this for my own blog. But it’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about – feeling guilty I guess – and wanted to get my feelings off my chest.
So, that’s how I feel. I appreciate all those people out there that say Clapotis, Schmapotis. Rogue, Schmogue. Birch, Schmirch. And of course, Jaywalker, Schmaywalker. If I had come along right now, with all those Jaywalkers out there and jaywalker jaywalker jaywalker I would think twice about it too. I honestly would. Which is kind of a shame because I know what a great pattern it is FOR ME and how nice MY YARN looks knit up with it and how comfortable it feels on MY FEET. And I have no problem knitting it over and over again. BUT I understand that there are people that knit something once and have to move on. There are no WRONGS in knitting. NONE WHATSOVER. We need to knit what we need to knit when we need to knit it. And for those who don’t want to jaywalk, I’ve made you your own button:
Dudes! I’m all inclusive! No one should be left out! Which brings me to my next problem. I can’t keep up with you people. When it was a small group of say 100 people, I could write up all my superfantastic updates and trust me when I tell you I had a lot of fun doing it! It’s great fun to go and visit all your blogs week after week – especially the ones I don’t normally read. But now, now I can’t. It takes hours to go through all the blogs and honestly, the updates you send me end up getting lost in the shuffle with all the sign-up comments and I’m not as organized as I’d like to be, so what I’m going to do is list everyone who has an update with a link to their blog post, and if you’re a non-blogger I will still post your pictures and where you’re at in the progress. I’m sorry. My only other alternative is to close the KAL
and I just feel like I can’t do that. We’ve got over a month to go in the KAL – or at least until the winners are announced, and I just know the updates are going to get bigger and bigger and I need to do other things. Sometimes at least. I hope you all understand. I just hate disappointing people! HATE IT!
That said, MY OWN SOCK updates will go on forever. Yes, I’ve finished another pair of jaywalkers. Introducing: TWO POP ROCKS!
Remember this song, Two of Hearts? 80’s Madonna like, artist is Stacey Q? I always thought it sounded like Two Pop Tarts. (Apparently I’m not alone either.) So the whole time I’m knitting these socks I’ve got that song playing in my head. Made for interesting knitting that’s for sure. Suddenly I’d burst out with Two Pop Tarts and G would start laughing at me. Craziness. These jaywalkers are making me CRAZY!
I tried to do the whole sexy shoe thing like Anna, but I don’t really have many sexy shoes. I’m a Merrell girl. But I did find the shoes I wore for my wedding, which happened to be dyed in almost the exact pink of the POP ROCK Jaywalker. Here’s the artsy fartsy shit I came up with:
Um, my calves aren’t that big. I mean they’re not skinny or anything they’re nice and shapely and the one in the picture above just looks weird.
Oh and in case you were all wondering, I immediately cast on for another pair. Yeah. I can HEAR you all groaning.
I swear to God – this is my favorite Jaywalker YET! I SWEAR! And before you all jump all over me about the yarn, this is Socks That Rock, BUT it’s a Rare Gem which means there is NO OTHER YARN LIKE IT IN THE WORLD. Rare Gems are skeins that don’t quite make it to the color they’re supposed to be, so they become like blank canvases for Tina and she does whatever her genius deems necessary at that moment. They are truly rare gems. Sorry y’all. This one’s mine. 😉
Which leads me to my last point before I start with YOUR updates. Kris, my better than the best better pal, said something really profound on her finished jaywalker post, she said:
“what is wrong with me? i never want to do a pattern twice. there’s something strange with this pattern – just look at cara; she’s up to double digits soon – it is just so brilliant in combination with self-striping or variegated yarn that you can’t help yourself, you need to try it one more time to see if it’s as gorgeous in another yarn.”
Couldn’t have said it better myself! BRING ON THE JAYWALKERS!
(Updates in the extended entry!)
A is for
January 11, 2006 By
Artichoke
This is my first entry in the ABC-A-Long. As pretty much all of you know, I’m a photographer. Over the past year, I’d say 90% of my work was client related and while I love taking pictures of kids, I miss the pictures I take for myself. So when I saw this ABC thing come up I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to get back to my own photography. Hope you enjoy it. I have to say, taking these pictures today really brightened my mood.
You know how there’s all different kinds of hangovers? Alcohol, of course, too much food, too little sleep, etc – well today I’ve got an emotional hangover. Lots of working out those pesky feelings that don’t WON’T stay down no matter how much you push them. I’m very lucky though to have the amazing support of my can’tfindthewordthatreallydefineshowmuchIlovehimandhowwonderfulhereallyis husband and great family and friends but in the end you have to deal with your own shit on your own time and it sucks. But you get through it.
Jaywalker Admin Stuff
January 11, 2006 By
I’m still taking sign-ups – I don’t think I’ll be closing it ever – but if you want to sign up – PLEASE – say you want to sign up. Just because you leave a comment on an update telling me you’ve started your socks doesn’t automatically tell me you want to be on the list. Thank you!
Also, there’s over 200 people signed up for this thing now – if I don’t see an update by 8PM EST Thursday evening, I can’t guarantee you’ll be in the updates – even if you send me an email. I’m sorry, but it’s just taking too long to do these suckers, and well, I’m a crazy ass perfectionist so I want to do them right. And if you have a blog – UPDATE your blog. I check each and every blog on the list – so no blog entry – no update.
One last thing – please don’t join at the last minute with your finished socks. Be in it to win it – I want to see at least ONE update of the socks IN PROGRESS before February 1st in order for you to be eligible to win and those socks MUST BE FINISHED by February 13th for the drawing on February 14th. It’s a Knit ALONG people, not a knit by yourself and then jump in for the prize. Oh and speaking of prizes, since there are so many knitters signed up now, I’m going to up the prize to SIX SKEINS OF SOCKS THAT ROCK to be given away. That’s double the chance to win. GO KNIT!
It’s getting better all the time!
January 10, 2006 By
My spinning, that is! This is Lisa Souza’s Blue Faced Leicester in Spring Green. I’m very happy with it – still not as even as Norma’s singles, but more even than yesterday’s Coopworth. My plan is to finish spinning half on this bobbin, and then spin the rest on the second bobbin and PLY! Hopefully by the end of the week. That’s my goal.
I spent a decent amount of time preparing the fiber yesterday. It helped tremendously. And I tried to spin S L O O O W.
I was very productive throughout the day – I read in the morning, blogged, finished up two reprint jobs, sent them out, went to the grocery store, read more in the evening, spun for an hour, made dinner and finished the evening off knitting! I was quite proud of myself. Today, not so much, but I’ve read for the morning and I’m off to knit with a friend in need for the rest of the day.
Have a great day!
L, C
How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
January 9, 2006 By
Last week I didn’t spin much, but when I did I was using some of the beautiful handpainted rovings I have in my fiber stash, and basically, well, ruining it. NO MORE. So after a couple of emails with Cassie, I ordered a bunch of practice fiber: 1/2 lb. of Romney, 1/2 lb. of Corriedale, 1/2 lb. of Coopworth (from Halcyon) and 1 lb. of Blue Faced Leicester from WEBS.
Yesterday I spun up almost the entire 1/2 lb. of Coopworth – that’s what’s in the picture above. I had a really good time. I’ve narrowed down my problems to drafting and treadling. 😉 No really – the drafting was really hard on some of the handpainted stuff I was spinning but I realize now it’s because I wasn’t PREdrafting enough. I was ripping it apart into smaller strips but I wasn’t pulling it apart at all to get it less compacted. Today I’m going to try some of the BFL I bought from Lisa Souza – I figure after all that white yesterday I’m allowed a little bit of a treat today. And it’s green – which isn’t my favorite color these days so I’m not TOO concerned if I screw it all up. The treadling problem? Well, I’ve slowed that down considerably and I think that’s helped a lot. Thanks to Ann, I also found a sort of close by guild. And someone to give me lessons! I think I’m going to have one next week.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the spinning – in a kind of zen way – and I’m working my way up to a nice long post about it. Not yet though.
My anxiety’s been kicking my ass a little bit too – I think it’s kind of a there was so much going on the last two months of the year and then the birthday and new years and now there isn’t so much to think about so why not go back to the bad place and make yourself crazy kind of thing. You know? I’m working on it though. I do have a big project to get out by the 20th, but I can’t do it all day long or I really WILL go crazy. I’m trying to work on it in the mornings (hence later blogging) because if I leave it to the afternoon I inevitably fall asleep. (It’s a lot of reading work.) So I set a goal for the morning, and then go back to it in the afternoon and if I fall asleep, well, that’s okay because I’ve already hit the goal in the morning. How smart am I?
There’s been jaywalker progress over the weekend, but honestly, I’m afraid to show you a picture. After Friday’s update, I think like THIRTY NEW PEOPLE signed up for the KAL! How insane is that? Kathy and I had a little bit of a it’s your fault, no it’s your fault kind of thing going on – she blames me, I blame her, but really , it can’t be MY fault. I mean, SHE wrote the superfantastic pattern sweeping blogland. I told her – if it wasn’t such a great pattern I wouldn’t be knitting it over and over and over again and neither would anyone else. Right? So it’s her fault. 😉
HELP WANTED: WEB DESIGNER/DEVELOPER
January 7, 2006 By
G and I went out to dinner last night and I was talking about all the things I need to do with my business. I was telling him that I could probably do it myself, but it would take forever and I’d have to learn all new things and my time is better spent elsewhere – and he said why don’t you hire someone to help you!
So. I thought I’d come to you all first.
This is what I need: I need someone to help me with the hard coding – we can work together on the design – I need some shopping cart functionality – some flash, maybe, but not a necessity, I need it to be relatively easy for me to upkeep myself. I can code HTML, but that’s about it.
These are the websites I’d like to upgrade:
CDC Photography
PhotoArtCards
They were both built entirely by me. Pretty good, but I need better. Ideally I’d love to give this job to a knitblogger! I know you guys are out there – working away on your blogs while you’re not knitting. Or may you’re a web designer/developer by day and a knitter by night? I don’t have a lot of money to pay you – but I have A LOT of yarn (money + yarn = good, no?)
If you’re interested in maybe working together, email me at s2 AT januaryone DOT com. In the email, please give me an link to some of your work, as well as your blog. If you don’t have a blog, well, tell me what you knit last. 😉
Thank you so much.
ETA: I’m an ASS and accidentally erased the emails I’ve received so far. If you’re still interested, would you be kind of enough to resend your information? Pretty please? Thank you so much!
Jaywalker Eight!
January 6, 2006 By
Hey Everybody! Hope you had a kick ass holiday season and are ready to start the year off right – JAYWALKING. Although, I have to say, you guys are KILLING ME! Don’t you people knit anything else? Here we are at week eight and at last count we have 184 participants! CRAZY! I thought I’d go over the rules again.
The rules:
1. Knit a pair (or more – hey – I’m going to start my THIRD! SIXTH? SEVENTH? I’ve lost count frankly) of Jaywalker socks. I know a lot of you have already started a pair – and that counts. But if you’ve finished a pair already, that doesn’t count. Instead, go on over to Kathy‘s and let her know. She’ll add you to the gallery.
2. You don’t have to adhere strictly to the pattern, so all you Drunken Jaywalker people (you know who you are!) come on over.
3. The socks don’t have to be for you. I know everyone’s crazy with holiday knitting (Suckers. I’m just saying….) so why not make a pair of Jaywalkers for that annoying relative in your life? Nothing like a pair of Jaywalker socks to send that subtle message – I wish you’d go play in traffic! You’re the only one who has to know the sentiment behind the gift! 😉
4. You don’t have to knit the socks with SOCKS THAT ROCK yarn – use whatever yarn you like. BUT the prizes will be Socks That Rock.
5. There are no deadlines on when this KAL will end, BUT
6. On February 14th I will draw three names out of the proverbial Internet hat of all the FINISHED KAL socks and each of these people will WIN a skein of SOCKS THAT ROCK in their preferred colorway. That is, assuming I can get Tina to dye it for you. I won’t tell you how many colors are in the recipe book – your head will spin around. To be eligible to win the socks, you will have had to give me at least ONE update before February 1st. I want you to really be in it to win it you know? No pulling in at the last minute with a finished pair of socks to get in on the lottery. 😉
7. Updates will be on FRIDAYS. So leave me comment or email me and I’ll do the updates then. K? Terrific!
Capisce? Capisce.
Ready. Set. UPDATE!
~ Seriously, she LOVES them! Don’t get the wrong idea about Adelle‘s jaywalkers. Yes, girl, they are so purty! And it doesn’t matter when you get them done – but that you LOVE them! And you do!
~ Slow and steady wins the race! Check out Amy‘s socks!
~ AmyP‘s got toe-up jaywalkers in kool-aid colors! YAY for hand dyes that WORK!
~ No socks, but it’s BIRTHDAY WEEK over at Anita‘s and you know how we feel about birthdays! Have a GREAT ONE!
~ Super Sleuth Ann‘s looking for the Creature of the Black Lagoon! She’s got STR Lagoon socks rocking! Hey, Ann baby, can I call you Nancy?
~ MEEEOOOWWW! Check out Anna‘s AMAZING sexy frilly fun jaywalkers! It’s insane what a little modification can do – picot edge BABY! I LOVE IT!
~ BigLug‘s got a ROCKING finished pair! Magic Loop indeed! Not convinced you’re a sock knitter – honey pie – you’ve made JAYWALKERS – the KING of socks! (I say Xmas Rock too.)
~ Oooh! Oooh! Another down to the wire Jaywalker finish! But Bridget wins by a nose with her gorgeous FINISHED pair! YAY!
~ Add Carmelle to the rip list! But things are on track now. Welcome Carmelle!
~ Carole‘s SECOND pair are finished! Do I smell an addict in the making? NOT MY FAULT! 😉
~ Now I may not be one to judge, but jaywalkers to match your furniture?! Cori‘s socks match her couch. Thankfully she’s got a pretty couch. I’m just saying. (Oh and while you’re over there, check out Cori’s STR XMAS TREE! Man your hubby ROCKS!) ETA: Cori’s teeth are FREE! And look how PRETTY! Oh yeah. Between the writing of this update and this morning, Cori ripped out her couch matching Jaywalkers. She’s caught PICOT fever.
~ Look at Deb‘s sad socks, all rolled up in her knitting bag! TAKE THEM OUT! LET THE JAYWALKERS FREE! Please? We want to see. ETA: Ask and you shall receive!
~ Ellie needs a vacation from her vacation (don’t we all!) but she still managed some excellent progress on her solid jaywalkers. Looking good!
~ OH MY GOD! You MUST check out the beautiful sheepys on Felicia‘s blog! And the GORGEOUS dye job she just finished. And oh yeah, the KICK ASS jaywalker in her own hand painted sock yarn. (Available for purchase right over here. 😉 )
~ Not quite sure what this says about the movie, but Helen made some excellent progress on her pretty purple jaywalkers CROSSwalkers during King Kong. That is until the kids got scared. Jurassic Jaywalkers. I like it! ETA: SHHHHH! Helen thinks there’s a curse going on over at her place. King Kong no likey knitting during the movie!
~ Holly‘s first FO of 2006 just so happens to be a P
AIR OF JAYWALKERS in some gorgeous Tess’s Sock Yarn! Woot! She says she’ll knit another pair, but maybe not as many as me. I’m telling you people, they’re like POTATO CHIPS. You can’t just have one.
~ Mismatched is still a match! Check out Jen‘s one of each socks! I say go back to the zinnia Jen!
~ Check out Jenny‘s FINISHED pair! Not really stripey, but oh so pretty!
~ Two at a time is fine over at Jessica‘s! She’s trying not to sweat the small stuff this year and I say keep on keeping on!
~ Um, Julie‘s named her sock. Cedric. It’s still pretty freaking cool, even with a name like Cedric. (NO offense to all you Cedric’s out there. Really.) 😉
~ So, Julsey, how was New Year’s? You know it’s been almost a week already. Hangover’s don’t last that long do they? Julsey? Come back! Your gorgeous Jaywalker is sitting at home waiting for you! (Is that Vesper yarn? Looks like Vesper.)
~ The socks went to Disneyland! And they came back finished! So did Karen! The pattern hurt her hands, so she’s back to stockinette, but your friend is going to be SO happy.
~ Kim couldn’t go to sleep the other night until she finished her jaywalkers! Oh Kim, we know that compulsion all too well! Beautiful pair in Steinbach Wolle Aktiv Color 100!
~ My bestest better pal Kris finished a fabulous sock for the new year! Hey BP, where’s the second one? Don’t leave me hanging – you’ve got lots of socks to knit what with all that FABU sock yarn someone sent you! 😉
~ Apparently Laura has some freakishly long toes (and I say that in the nicest way!) But she still managed to close up the toe, non-kitchener style, on her first Jaywalker! Nice work, Laura!
~ The other Laura (this week at least) has TOE! Now let’s see some FOOT!
~ Leah‘s got a KICK ASS jaywalker! Her first sock! YAY! (But, seriously, I DO knit other things besides socks. Have you seen my Almost Everyday Cardigan? What about my Diamond Fantasy Shawl? I’m in a kind of zone thing with the socks, okay? But that’s not ALL I knit. Really. It’s not. I can knit anything I want any time I want. SHUT UP! I can so!)
~ Lisa FINISHED a gorgeous pair of Jaywalkers! Just beautiful! And guess what she did then? Huh? Can you guess? She cast on for ANOTHER PAIR. DO NOT RESIST THE JAYWALKER. It’s futile.
~ Lisa‘s socks may never grow up! Well, I hope they do, but she did take them to see Peter Pan. Could be trouble. FINISH LISA FINISH!
~ Lisa, may I interest you in a Got Gauge? T-shirt? Right side bar. Or maybe Swatch-N-Bitch is more your speed. 😉
~ The Good Humor guy stopped off at Liz‘s and dropped off some FINISHED ICE CREAM JAYWALKERS! That’s Vesper’s Neopolitan colorway if I know my stash and they look FABULOUS!
~ Liz has got her jaywalkers all figured out – she even has the yarn lined up for her NEXT pair (way to prepeare LIZ!) And as a testament to the greatness that is the Jaywalker, despite all that BAD math, she still loves knitting them! Whew!
~ (Yet ANOTHER) Liz is totally zen with her jaywalker – even if it does have a little green in it. Way to be one with the sock Liz!
~ Her name is Margaux and she’s a jaywalker addict. Was there ever any doubt?
~ Mimsie‘s got some FINISHED Garnet Dreams! Beautiful!
~ Patty, sweetie, ripping is still progress! I promise! I like to keep a size #0 needle around for picking up stitches after frogging. I put the stitches on the 0 needle, then transfer them to the #1. Easy peasy. Oh and just so you know, I’ve frogged I think all of my jaywalkers at least once somewhere in the knitting. 🙂
~ YEAH Money! Way to kick that knitting’s ASS! Renata – you are the BOSS!
~ Roberta, doll, the sock is SOOOOOOO Pretty – and the baby – SO DANG CUTE! Awwwww!
~ Robyn says she’s made progress and all and it’s so cool but it’s boring to show a picture and ahem, Robyn? JAYWALKERS ARE NEVER BORING! No matter what stage they’re in! SHOW PICTURES! 😉
~ Rosemary‘s got some EXCELLENT FINISHED Draco socks! Um, Rosemary? What’s a Draco and should we be afraid?
~ Ruth‘s starting the year off right by knitting socks from her stash. Jaywalkers, natch. In Ravenclaw from Sunshine Yarns. Lovely!
~ Rainbow Brite! Rainbow Brite! Rainbow Brite! Hey Sandra my votes for RAINBOW BRITE!
~ Scout‘s learning all about the selfish knit – way to go Scout! Knit for yourself at all times! Oh and check out her fly new job. Stashalong. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
~ Shannon‘s STR Fluorite socks are DONE! Stick a fork in them. AWESOME!
~ DUDE! Sharon is SO giving me a RUN FOR MY MONEY! She’s got five pair ALREADY FINISHED and is working on her SIXTH! Must knit faster, must knit faster, must knit faster.
From l to r: STR Watermelon Tourmaline, STR Lapis, Cherry Hill supersock Water(potluck),
Cherry Hill supersock Serengeti, Fleece Artist Wines and Fleece Artist Jester (sock in progress)
~ Stacey, sweetheart, your feet ARE SMILING! Hell, they’re laughing their asses off at those rocking FINISHED Jaywalkers!
~ Susan‘s starting the year on safari with her ZEBRA jaywalkers! Make sure you’ve got your pith helmet on when you knit those!
~ Tara gave me a very sweet birthday present! She started her first pair of jaywalkers. Awww. Thanks Tara!
~ Tracy knit up some SUPERFANTASTIC FINISHED SOCKS! She tipped the ribbing and the toes with a contrast color and man do they ROCK! Much FUN!
~ Jaywalker ROCKS! Nuff said. Thanks Trek!
~ Vicki‘s jaywalkers are so freaking great they freeze me right in my tracks. Or should I say I’m PETRIFIED?! Love em!
~ I’m betting that by the time you read this, Wannietta‘s got that gorgeous red jaywalker finished. Because, you know what, Wannietta was meant to knit. No doubt.
Late Additions:
Margene, are you ready to prove it all night? THUNDERCRACK!
Sarah, Happy Blogiversary! You’ve come a long way BABY!
If I missed you this week, tough patooties. This stuff is hard! Leave me a comment HERE and I’ll get you next week. Thanks everyone! Have a great weekend!
