Fiber

I went to the Farm Show and saw bunnies!  The daughter of one of my co-workers shows Jersey Woolies and I got to pet...

This guy was just plain cute.

I spun this fiber from the Charlie Brown SAL (colorway, Snoopy Ice Skating)

To this yarn

Which became this scarf

And the Absinthe Tsocks are done!

Things progress

I'm now up to 133 rows on the Diamond medallion shawl.

The mystery shawl has not progressed.

All I have to do on the Liquor makes you sicker tsocks is the sugar cubes on the second one.

I got my Mad Hatter swap package.  S asked for a hat with ears.....

Schrodinger's Cat

may or may not be dead.

Gil thinks that his cat should have been more sensible and just smooshed in the top of the box. 

The Quantom Paratsox are done!  However, my feet have insufficient length to put a box on the foot.  If I had, the end of the box would have been at the toe.  The boxes were illusion knit in the round, with a technique that the Tsarina call "festive illusion".  Festive illusion is a method that does not involve weaving floats the entire way around.  I did 4 boxes, 2 on each tsock, 1 question mark and 1 cat per tsock

The Tsocks

A box

And the question is...

With a cat -- alive or dead?

Is the cat alive or dead?  Depends on how you look at it! 

But, everyone knows that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.

Nightmare!

I finished the Nightmare Socks!!

They are the May Tsocks. More info on the pattern is available here.

I did 4 rounds between the gold lines on the cuff. I was trying the socks on as I went, and when I had done two repeats of the clock pattern, I felt that a third repeat would make them too long. (This ended up being incorrect, but I'm not frogging.) Another consideration was the fact that I need to make very long heel flaps.

My heel flaps still ended up a little short, mainly because I completely forgot how knitting shrinks vertically when I put the socks on -- this also played into the length of the leg.

Anyhoo, the socks are done. The bicycles are done. The clocks are done. The clocks are not great nor are they symetrical, but they are done. These tsocks are even safe from Mother. She said she didn't want them and that my bicycles did not have enough of a frame.

I didn't do any french knots because french knots and I have NEVER EVER EVER gotten along.

Now it's on to the evil mobius tsocks. mwahahah. Mother wants them, in a different color.

Here Fishie Fishie.....

The Fishie Socks are done!

The double decreases along the top of the shell pattern made them to tight for me, but they did fit Mortal, so they'll be a Christmas present for her.

I did give her the option of having them now -- if she gave me replacement yarn. She didn't go for that.

I also spun up some milk fiber I got on etsy from knittyandcolor

It was interesting to spin. It tended to break more easily. I ended up with 94 yards of light fingering.