Happy Sew Crafty Friday. I got the socks done last week but was unable to post. They have already been given to their happy recipient, but I took some pics before I gave 'em away. Here they are finished.

The stripes don't line up perfectly, but I'm still pretty happy with them. That was the only picture I got of them on the floor because I had helpers. Here's Katie showing us that...

 

...these socks are not one size fits all.

"Mommy, take a picture of me!" Can you tell we had eggs for breakfast? Egg yokes really bring out the blue in her eyes, dontcha think?

Okay, back to the socks. Here's what they look like on. Those are my feet. I cleaned 'em first. Luckily my friend doesn't mind that we all tried on her socks.

 

I'm still working on the red blanket but my hook went missing. That happens alot. Kids can find all kinds of imaginative things to do with crochet hooks, so there isn't anything to post on that project.

Here's my surprise project. I'm knitting. I starting teaching myself to knit a few years ago but always put it down in favor of the much faster (for me anyway) crocheting. Since I've been posting on Sew Crafty Friday I've found myself inspired by one the other participants. PuritySeekers makes some beautiful stuff (and you can win some of it by entering the contest on her site) which she sells on her etsy shop. One of the things I've loved the most is the knit longies she makes. Because I'm a big ol' copycat I seached and found this pattern at knitty.com. Beware, the baby on that page will make you want one! Here's the pic:

I'm doing a couple of things different on this pattern. First of all, I didn't want to buy two sets of needles, a circular and a set of dpns, so I learned to do the magic loop on the circular needles. I learned how to do it from a couple of videos on youtube.com. Here's one of the videos I learned from. Do a search for "magic loop" on you tube if you want to find more.

 

That's it for now. If you want to see more crafts head over to Shereen's site for Sew Crafty Friday.

Hooray! I finished a sock! I bought my sock loom about six months ago, and although I love working on it, I always ended up ripping out the socks I started. When I see a mistake I really want to fix it, and I don't know how to fix something on my looms, so out it goes. This is the first sock pattern I've found that hides my mistakes pretty well. Here's a picture of the finished project:

I love the colors. Now, here's a couple of me modeling it:

And, once again, a close up of the work:

I'm very pleased with how it came out, and so far have gotten a lot of rave reviews from the people I've shown it to. Some of them are even hand knitters! My kitchener's stitch was a litte wonky but I'm sure I'll learn, I have a lot more sock yarn to work up. Darn those sales.

Speaking of sales, here is another project I'm working on, I like to have two going:

It's the same kind of yarn that I used for the baby blanket I posted before, but a different color, of course. The baby clouds yarn is about $4 a skein where I buy it. This Bright & Lofty stuff was found on Smiley's yarn for only $1 a skein. You can find all kinds of discounted yarn there, but you have to buy at least $40 at time plus $12 shipping and handling. I ended up buying 25 skeins of this stuff, 5 of every color they had in stock. I was going to loom it all into blankets but I had a hard time picturing this red (color: jellybean) as a loomed blanket so I decied to crochet it using this pattern. I took this picture 2 days ago and It's actually about a fifth done now. I can't believe how fast this works up. I also bought 8 skeins of color waves for a future project. Just thought I'd throw that in case you were like, "Hey, 25 skeins at a dollar each is only $25 dollars, what else did you get!" Or am I the only one that does that?

I'm off to start another sock and work on a blanket. For more "Sew Crafty Fridays" visit Sharleen's blog.