Strong Assumption

#4 Socks for SKP2008
Originally uploaded by Garyou.

Started knitting at age of 10, stranded knitting has been my problem.
I simply cannot knit fairisle knitting.
Why?
Because I believe so.

I've done with two stranded knittings, anyhow: one is a hat, and the other is "Canada" from the book _Knitting on the Go_.
Both are disastrous and tucked deep into my closet.

What's wrong with stranded knitting with me?
First and all, yarn in back becomes too tight or too loose, especially when I knit with double pointed needles.

I really love fairisle patterns, nordic gloves and mittens, Bohus and all. I've tried to knit them and all I did was just frogging them.

The 4th challenge for Sock Knitters Pentathlon is Ziggy, wonderful stranded knitted socks.
And the picture here shows how I did.
It was fun to knit this pair. I started knitting this on 2 Sep., 2008 and finished on 6 Sep., 2008. That's no later than other socks, such as sock with cables and lace patterns.

Yarn in back is sometimes too tight or too loose still, but it isn't so bad as before.
I need to try another stranded knitting.
And more.

Stealth Rattlesnake Socks

Stealth Rattlesnake Socks
Originally uploaded by Garyou.

It was a challenge. Indeed.
To me, it was a big challenge to knit a pair of socks during weekdays.
The 1st sock pattern was announced on weekend; the 2nd one on holidays. I was able to use two full days for knitting each time.
But the 3rd socks.
On the day of announce, which was 1:00 am, 2 July 2008, I was up waiting for the pattern. As soon as the pattern was revealed, I went to my stash closet and picked up yarn. I was thinking of solid or heathered colour, but what I had in my hand was Lisa Souza's Sock! Merino in Shade Garden. Very varigated.
As I went on kniting, I found out that it is difficult to knit cable pattern with this kind of colourway. The pattern doesn't appear clearly and that causes the diffuculty.
Still, I love the pattern and the yarn. Cable and rib pattern is one of my favourite for socks. It fits well. Cables make a sock a bit tight, but rib makes it relaxed.
I started knitting around 1:30 am on the same day, knitted a ribbing part. And I finished with the first sock around 4:30 am on Saturday. The second sock was finished around 3:00 am on Sunday. The second one was not so bad.
Now I know that I need weekend to finish a pair, or it would take me more than a week. That doesn't so bad, either. At least so I think.

BTW, it looks like snakes are hiding in the shade garden, doesn't it?
Oh, Rattlesnake Creek is desert? Is it?
Well, well, well....

Burned Out, But...

Berlin Muster
Originally uploaded by Garyou.

So, another pattern, another pair.

I've finished knitting the second socks of the Sock Knitting Pentathlon 2008, Berlin Muster. Aren't they gorgeous? Well, you can't tell its beauty from my handmade, but you can see that here.

Yeah, I feel fulfilled. At the same time, I'm overwhelmed a bit.
Maybe, what I did was too much for me: too much speed, too much work, too much knitting.

Exhausted, but still, I find myself thinking of next sock project.
And actually, right after I whipped off my Berlin Muster, I spun some Romney and plied it.

Well, Sock Knitting 2008 is such an inspiration.
Thank you all.

Unglaubtlich

Jacobian
Originally uploaded by Garyou.

I've done with my first socks for Sock Knitting Pentathlon 2008. It was started at 0:00 Eastern Standard Time, 1 March 2008. That means, 14:00 (2:00 pm) in our time. So, I had only 10 hours on the first day.

It usually takes more than a week to knit a pair of socks with fingering or sock-weight yarn.
But in two days.
What happened to me, I wonder.

I will take my "official" pictures next weekend.

Anyway, I'm so fulfilled now.