Some knitting and a fail, sort of

 Hey! 

Welcome to my blog where I promise myself I'm going to post regularly 😆. 

I've been getting my craft on. Knitting, sewing, scrapbooking and I'm going to try my hand at blackout poetry in the next few days. 

Today's post is all about knitting. My title says fail and it's not really a fail since I consider anything not done or not done to my liking is a learning experience. I learned a lot with trying color work socks. 

These are the socks I made using the yarn I purchased last year in Sitka. I used a cuff from Summer Lee Design Co. cuff club I joined. I really love them. 

Not sure if posted pics of my socks I made using the Eclipse Yarn I bought. Here they are...

These socks with their basketweave design, were actually a lot of fun to knit. This yarn was from our Alaskan cruise. We flew to Vancouver and set sail from there.  I chose this yarn for my 1st pair of 2026 because the colorway is named "New Beginnings". 

Recently I decided to knit some socks using some yarn I purchased to represent my cats. The yarn is beautiful and I got a pattern to knit some colorwork cats. 

Well, to be honest, carrying the floats around the sides if using magic loop, was a pita!! I couldn't get the tension right. So I tried the small circular needles..9". Oh wow! If my hands didn't hurt before, they sure did using those. Anyway, here's some pics of the attempt at those. I might try again. 

Pics of my cats for color purposes (RIP Toby Tobes)

The toes knitted up beautifully

Way too tight floats, ugh

I decided to give my hands a break from socks and finish the market bag I had started. I had fun knitting it but next time I would use a solid contrasting color yarn. This was actually made using 2 different colors and you'd never know it. It is beautiful yarn though. 

Usually I work on my Zik Zak scarf while we travel. It's such an easy pattern and I'm almost done with it. I wish my camera picked up the sparkles in the black yarn. I may have to video it so you can see. 

As always, thanks for stopping by.