Live and Let Knit

28 – Fingering

• Sock It to Me Collection Essential 4 Ply (0-2)
• Brown Sheep – Wildfoote(0-2)
• Lornas Laces – Shepherd Sock(0-2)
• Silk City, Bounce – (3)

24-26 Sport

• Sock It to Me Collection Esprit (3)
• Cascasde Fixation (3)
• Peruvian Collection Pure Alpaca (6)
• Endless Summer Collection Lara (?)

22 DK

• Endless Summer Collection Sonata (6)

20 Worsted

• Red, Green wool from Webs (7)
• Blue, Cream wool from Webs (7)

18 Aran

• Schachenmayr Princess (7-8)
• Estelle Pure Silk (8)
• Red, Green wool from Webs (8)
• Blue, Cream wool from Webs (8)

16 Bulky

12-14 Chunky

• Gedifra Poesie (10)
• Classic Elite – Paintbox (10)

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“Finally,the moment many of us have been waiting a year for: Out of
more than 300 members that started the knit-a-long, only 27 members
finished al 6 socks in the time alloted and posted both a progress
and a completed photo. All these members deserve a prize but
unfortunately, we could only draw 3 names. The winners of the year
end raffle, our sock-knitting equivalent of an ironman compitition,
are:

The Final Raffle Grand Prize goes to: Karen in KY (kyknitterspinner)

2nd place winner is Amy (amyrea)
3rd place winner is Paula B (pjbknit)”

They are sending me a lovely gift

It’s official – summer is here.
Thank goodness the pool is fixed and functional once again!

I’ve washed some of the olive colored yarn in hanks and started working on a sweater. The worst of the smell is mostly gone, but I have to admit that the washing did take out some of the softness. The yarn also bloomed quite a lot so I’m guessing that the smell really was a ’spinning oil’ used to tame the fibers during the spinning process. Some of the SnB’ers said it smelled like normal wool to them or that maybe it was from a ram.

At the moment this sweater is for an un-specified person. I won’t say I believe in the ‘curse‘ but why take chances lol. I feel guilty working on it since it’s too hot out to be working with 100% wool and because I have so many almost finished projects. Funny how quickly I can put something away as soon as I see all those loose ends to weave in. The green pullover and Soleil both called for a crochet finishing which adds to my procrastination.

My Badger socks are in ICU.
This will be my first surgery experience as a sock parent.
I won’t post a current picture, it’s too traumatic.

I started knitting up swatches of some of the yarn I purchased at Webs when I noticed a very unfavorable smell. To me it smelled like rust and a damp garage. I really like the colors in these yarns and the way they knitted up – it would be a tragedy if I can’t get the smell out.

I asked my fellow SnB‘ers for advice so I’ve been trying several things:

• 1) Eucalan – didn’t work
• 2) Dawn – apple scented in hot water – worked some, softened a little, not crazy about the apple
• 3) putting a box of Baking Soda in with the cones – will check tomorrow
• 4) putting outside to air out – will try this weekend
• 5) Dreft detergent – will have to look for this one

I think I found the culprit tho – the ‘freebie’ cone I had picked up is the strongest of this smell. I wonder what history led to it’s tossing in the free bin…..