Lots of Knitting

It's a Monday evening, and it has been raining here all day, in fact for most of the weekend. So what am I doing? Knitting, of course! I've been working on lots of different projects lately, making progress on each one.

The first thing I knit on today was a pair of Traveling Socks. What's a Traveling Sock? Well, in one of my Ravelry groups, the Knitters Brewing Co. Sock-Aholics, there are two groups of us, an East Coast group and a West Coast group. I'm in the East Coast group, and there are 12 of us total. We each started a sock, just working the toes, and then sent them on along with a journal to the next person in line. The next person works a little bit, writes in your journal, and sends them on to the next person, and so on. So at the end I will have a fabulous pair of socks worked on by 11 other people! It's so much fun working on everyone's socks! I've been pulling out my stitch dictionaries that haven't gotten much use, and going through them to pick out a pattern to use for my portion of the socks. I also pick out a yarn to use, which may or may not depend on what others have used on the socks before me. So this morning I finished up my section of someone's socks, wrote a bit in the journal, and got them in the mail this afternoon. Now I just need to wait for the next pair of socks to arrive!

Speaking of socks, I've also been working on a pair for me. This is my first time using Malabrigo yarn, and I'm using the Persia colorway, which is gorgeous greens, blacks, and greys. I tried a couple of different patterns before I settled on the one that I'm using now, which is a Wendy Johnson pattern called Ribbed Ribbon Socks. I'm done with the feet and the heels, now I'm just working on the legs until they get to the height that I like. Plus they fit perfectly!

Another thing I've worked on today is my Lexi Cardigan. It's a top-down cardigan sweater, and I've gotten the very top portion done, separated some stitches for the arms, and now I'm working the body section. I'm doing this for my Harry Potter group on Ravelry, so I've got a deadline of the end of March to get it done. I've tried working a few rows each day, but I think it's easier for me to set aside a day or two a week to work on it.

One last thing that I'm working on is my spindle spinning. No pictures of that, since the handspun yarn that I'm making is a surprise for a friend! The fibers that I'm using are gorgeous, though, so I know she'll love it.