The other day at lunch I bound off yet another iPod sock.
This one is for my boyfriend’s buddy Kenny, who has a new iPod Touch. Those things are wicked thin, wow! They’re approximately 5 inches in circumference, which is just a tad more than my BlackBerry. It was pretty easy to figure out how many stitches I needed to cast on, and I worked it until I figured it was pretty close. The next time I saw Kenny, we tried it on (while still on the needles) to see how the length was, and after adding a couple more rows I was ready to finish it up. I’m losing count of how many of these things I’ve made. My iPod is two and a half years old and has spent most of that time in it’s knitted sock, and it has hardly a scratch on it.
I also have a couple other FOs:
Pattern: Baby Surprise Jacket by Elizabeth Zimmermann (Ravel that sucker!)
Yarn: Painter’s Palette Premium Merino from Koigu; P117
Pattern: Saartje’s Bootees by Saartje de Bruijn (Ravel that sucker!)
Yarn: Painter’s Palette Premium Merino from Koigu; P117
These are for my friend Julia, whose first baby is due this Spring! My first Baby Surprise Jacket was just that: a surprise. It looks like a little blob of garter stitch when you cast off:
But once it’s folded together like a little piece of knitted origami, it all comes together:
And the little bootees are just too cute for words. I swear, my ovaries just about exploded while I was knitting these up!
I’m about to start a huge project that may just make me go insane before the end of it. Finding the yarn alone nearly did me in, but a quick call to New York had a package on my doorstep from Habu Textiles in just a few days.
Yeah, I have a feeling they’ll be sending me off to the looney bin before this is all said and done!
Hopefully not the looney bin–but the aisle!!!
Then your ovaries can really quiver as you knit more booties!!
Love the baby items. I have yet to knit a BSJ. I have a new nephew, so maybe I need to make on soon. Can’t wait to see what your new project is.
Nancy