Finally, some knitting content

I have been knitting, although not nearly as much as I'd like. Having a second job really cuts into that knitting-in-the-car-while-waiting-for-Tom (which I enjoyed; I couldn't do anything else, so I'd knit and listen to Dr. Laura on XM), and we get home later so I'm usually too tired to knit at night.

I knit these socks from some yarn I bought in June from etsy.com. I knit them while I was in Florida, not bad while I was visiting my grandkids! Next time I'll make them a little bigger; I usually use 64 stitches for my socks, but I think I need to go up to 72, because with these--and others--the ribs stretch more than I like. It's only taken me what, three years of sock knitting to figure this out?

I bought this yarn from vieuxrouet at etsy. It's called Strawberry Fields and is 440 yards of soft fingering weight yarn, 75% superwash wool, 25% Nylon. This is what it looked like after it was dyed:

This is a doggie sweater that I knit this weekend. It's for the UYR (United Yorkie Rescue Organization); they've sent me enough yarn for probably 100 or more sweaters for little dogs. I don't like this one at all; it's too frou-frou, but I guess that someone will want it. Check out the Yorkie Shoppe page; that's where the sweaters will end up. All money goes to the UYR to vet and house Yorkies and Yorkie-wannabes and find them wonderful forever homes.

Zippy did not like the sweater; he's a little embarrassed to be seen in such a poufy sweater.



Chester was embarrassed, too, but then, he's a cat, what does he know about doggie fashion?



I'm also knitting a scarf using some of Claudia's fingering yarn, Peony, I think, but I couldn't get a decent photo of it. Later I'll link to the pattern (and blog) that I got it from. Funny blog, too.