Now it is the time of the knitting.

I have, despite all appearances, been working hard today. I woke up at 5:30 this morning, and voted at 7 am. My polling place was pretty quiet, but I live in DuPage County, home of the Republicans.

The leaked exit polling has looked excellent for Kerry, but you never know, and really, the exit polling isn’t all that accurate right now, anyways. But I’m starting to feel twinges of optimism.

So, on to the knitting!

This last weekend was sort of an ADD knitting weekend. I decided I was sick, sick, of knitting on the sleeves for my sister’s sweater. I never wanted to see ribbing again.

So, since I was alone for the weekend, I went to Kool Knits in Naperville, and bought a skein of their Plymouth Foxy Yarn. Only I paid 15.95 for it, instead of 30. I have no idea why Kool Knits sells it for so much less, but I figured it was worth a 10 mile drive, given I needed Penzey supplies anyways.

So, I cast on 3 stitches, and did i-cord until I ran out of yarn. I now have this!

No, its not a tenticled monster attacking my purse! It’s a totally great scarf. I wore it all day yesterday. I know, I generally dislike novelty yarns, and this yarn is 100% acrylic. But, it is amazingly soft, and nothing at all like Fun Fur or other craft store yarns.

Since the scarf only took about 45 minutes, I had to find some other way to distract myself from the sleeve ribbing of death. So, I decided that I just had to start on a sock. Everyone in my knitting group can knit socks, and my one attempt had turned out fairly badly. I was trying to knit it to fit my food, and it easily fit Kevin’s foot. It just lingers about the house, taunting me.

So, I tried again with a pattern I found linked off Wendy’s blog. It’s a toe up pattern, and I’m using Regia that I got from the SSRP 2 box.

I’m not so sure I like the colors, but the sock is doing well. It’s actually a bit too wide, so I shortened the sock significantly, and it stretches into place nicely. Knitting it toe up lets me try it on as I go, which is nice. I took the sock with me to voting, but since there wasn’t a line, its just been sitting on my desk at work. I call it my hobbit sock, because its so short and wide.