Clowning Around

New project!



Yeah, I'm manic and keep casting on new projects. But this one's happy and fun and I'm learning something new!

"But Lilith, it's your standard toe-up, short-row sock," you say... or would say if you were one of the voices in my head.

"Look again," I say,"for things are not always what they seem!" And then I pull out...



THE SECOND SOCK!!!

*ahem*

That's right, two socks at once on one set of DPNs! Shiny, eh? It's very much like double-knitting. Half of the stitches are for sock #1, the other half for sock #2.



On the near needle, the purple stitches are sock #1 (with the knit side showing) and the yellow-to-blue stitches are for sock #2 (with the purl side showing).

Why am I doing this? Several reasons:

a. I wanted to try a new skill, and this is a pretty nifty one.
II. I love making socks.
3. I am in love with this yarn. It's the Ashabee's Fiber Oasis superwash merino in the Clown Wig colorway that I got in Portland.
☺. Anything that helps avoid Second Sock Syndrome has to be good, right?
V. I had a set of #0 DPNs lying around with nothing on them.

So yeah. Clown socks! Yay!

Painting and Pictures

Okay. Two bits of news.

I've started Babette's makeover. She made her public debut at a local business and community expo (pics here) on Sunday where the Connecticut River SnB (newer, shinier version of TVSnB) represented the area's fiber folk. Here we have before and after:



There's still some work to be done, but everyone says she's beautiful. More pics here.

Second bit of news: I have a new camera! Last year, David gave me a Nikon L3 point-and-shoot digital camera so I could shoot my projects without having to beg to borrow my sister's camera. It's a nice little camera, and it works well. I've had my eye on a digital SLR, though, so when (December 23rd) my father asked me what I wanted for Christmas, I asked if he'd consider a moderately expensive Christmas-and-birthday present. He agreed, and so last week I became the proud owner of a Canon Rebel XTi. Yum. Yum, yum, yum. Again, before and after:





I'm a happy camper. A happy camper with aching shins from six hours of spinning yesterday. Owwie.