At knit-a-square they asked for socks.

A few years ago I knit my first pair of socks. It wasn’t easy. The second pair took some effort too. Especially that second sock of each pair is just no fun, since it has to be exactly the same as the first one (including things you wish you would have done differently).

Still, I like a challenge and maybe children’s socks would get me back into sock knitting. I used Elizabeth Zimmermann‘s pattern and went for it.
I have four pairs done and I’m working on the fifth.

The trick: knitting to socks at once. I knit the leg of the first one, then start the second one, than heels, than feet, etc. You get the drift. It’s much easier to keep up with things this way (I’m experimenting with different sizes). And no second sock syndrom!
Maybe now I’ll find the courage to try to knit some for myself again.

That’s what I did while working on the back garden. Between all the digging and draggin I still did some knitting. I had too, because I started a scarf for my mother’s birthday, the Saturday after that week. So I was still knitting on my way to her party.

I finished it in time and even was able to take a picture of it before wrapping it up.

So, another part of my stash done and gone. But I won’t be out of yarn soon.
Last Friday, this happened:

You know that feeling that you have to get to the thrift store because there will be something good? I have it often and I’m mostly wrong. But this time I wasn’t.

These weeks I knit some squares for Knit-a-square. A lot of squares.

I started a cardigan with this yarn, but it was too thick to feel comfortable. I should have known better since I already have a cardigan of the same yarn that I knit five years ago and I hardly ever wear it. But I forgot about that and even bought two colors to knit a cardigan for one of the girls too. Oh well. It is suitable for blankets. Nice and thick and warm and still soft. And a super fast knit. It only took me two weeks to knit a complete blanket of 35 squares.

The finished squares look better in real life than they do in this picture, by the way…

Knit-a-square would like to receive some hats too. Isn’t that great?
Yes, that’s three hats. In a very short time. What can I say… I like knitting hats. And now I have an excuse… 

These days I’m always knitting squares.

Ideal for stash busting. I don’t have to make 35 matching squares, since I’m knitting for this project in South Africa.

It’s simple, you just sent single squares and they sort them and join them with squares other people have knit to make blankets for AIDS-orphans.

Long time readers know I love to knit hats. I knit a lot of them. More than I will ever wear. But it’s such a fun little project. And they always find there way somewhere.
So when I found some real hand spun in the thrift store, I knew it had to be a hat.

A simple hat, that seemed best for that uneven yarn. But there was a lot left, so I started another one.

Soulemama’s favorite hat. My favorite too. This is number sixteen. Oh well.

And when there was still some yarn left, I tried something more adventurous. A Carpenter Hat. That was fun too.

And now? Well, there’s always something on my needles. Some other projects (more on that later). And more hats. Of course.

And I do mean really simple. Just stockinette going round and round and round. But it’s soft and warm to wear