I am happy to say that this pair will actually be long enough for my foot judging on how the sock fits on the sock blocker. I also worked a little more on Mom's vest last night:
It looks wonky in the picture, but I assure you that it's not in real life. Blocking will make those diamond motif's really pop out too.
It's now over 8 inches long. Cross your fingers and hope the knitting muses are on my side for once! :oP
So, since it was supposed to be a rest day yesterday, I decided this morning that today would be my rest day from the tour. I know I didn't do that much yesterday, but you're supposed to do no spinning at all, so today is my official "rest" day.
I'm really pleased with how this is turning out. Hopefully I'll make some good progress on it this evening when I get home and can't spin for the Tour!
I rather enjoyed the green too. It's just so different from the purple in color that I almost forget that I'm spinning part of the same fleece. Anyways, that's it for today. It's actually sunny right now, so I get to ride my bike to work for the first day this week!
And then there was the good part! I plied the first ball of singles that I spun and it turned out to be rather lovely. Here's the good:
It's even nicer in person. I'm very pleased. Hopefully I'll have some green singles spun today and can ply one more ball of the purple tonight.
That's the end of the first batch of combed fiber too. I'm now going through the leftovers and finding anything that still looks decent enough to comb again, and I have found a pretty good amount, so I'm working on that now. I was just going to card it all, but that prep method was not giving me the same consistency as the combed fiber, so I decided that I would just comb what I could and save the rest for another project some other time.
I also haven't completely done without knitting too. I'm this far on the cabled vest:
It's raining like mad right now, so hopefully I'll just spend the evening spinning and knitting away!
Two full cops, wound into a ball, and about 1/4 of another cop done. I'm almost half way through my goal too by the end of the first weekend, so if I continue this rate, I'll get started on the blue or green fiber next.
Body (Make 2)
CO 10 stitches
Row 1: KFB, k to last stitch, KFB
Row 2 and all even rows: Purl
Rows 5, 7, and 9: Repeat row 1
Rows 10-26: Work in plain stockinette stitch
Row 27: KFB, KFB, k to last 2 stitches, KFB, KFB
Row 29 and row 31: repeat row 27
Continue in stockinette until body measures 6 inches, or desired length
Divide for legs:
Next row: KFB, K13, Bind off 4, K13, KFB. Place first 15 stitches on a holder and only work 1 leg at a time.
Work each leg in stockinette until it measures 2.5 inches.
Next row: K1, K2Tog, k to last 3 stitches, K2Tog, K1
Repeat this decrease on all right side rows until 9 stitches remain. Bind Off and join yarn to 15 stitches on holder and repeat for leg 2.
Arms (Make 4: Note that the decreases at the end of the work will be the tops of the arms when sewing body together)
CO 7 stitches
Row 1: KFB, k to last stitch, KFB
Row 2 and all even: Purl
Row 3: Repeat row 1
Row 4-28: work in stockinette
Row 29: K1, K2tog, k to last 3 stitches, K2tog, K1
Continue decreasing this way until 5 stitches remain. Bind off.
Now this is fleece, not roving or top, so that means I have to prep it. To do this, I made makeshift wool combs out of four dollar store metal hair combs I found:
Surprisingly, they work great. Here's a couple of finished bird's nests of top that I combed:
And finally, I'll be riding my super fast Golding for the race:
On your mark, get set....
Because I seem to be cornering the market on geek toys, I said sure :oP
And a slightly closer view:
The next time DF comes to my city, I'll have him take some good shots of the cardigan that don't involve me with the self timer :oP
Hedera from Knitty.com. This time I'll make sure they're big enough for my foot. The first pair I made are really too small, but I blame that on the heat stroke in Thailand since that's when I made them :oP
The last thing I'll leave you with today is a music video that was posted on Ravelry about Malabrigo!
Whoops, realized that I forgot to rotate the picture before uploading and I'm out of time for blogging this morning. Oh well!
The dusk view of the extinct volcano behind my apartment building.
The bedroom (yes, it has its own room now :oP )
The kitchen/laundry room.
Dining area, and last, but not least (I forgot to take a picture of the couch, but oh well) the yarn storage:
And one last picture of the current state of Greenjeans:
Knit on....
Hopefully next week this will be finished and I can start working on Mom's vest, which won't be so much of a blanket on me while knitting!
Go sleeve, go!
And if I'm not too lazy, I'll try to get pictures of the apartment that I said I would post up here today :oP
I enjoyed the last pair of Broadripple socks that I made out of the Panopticon colorway that I decided to make one more pair of them. The pattern is very easy to memorize, so it makes it very easy to work on while sitting on a bus.
I'm actually almost done with the body now, so I should be on to the sleeves next week I think. As soon as this is done, I'll cast on for the vest for Mom. I did finally get all organized at the apartment and even have a bookshelf organizing the yarns. I rather like the idea of my stash being on display, so I think it looks pretty good. 
And as always, here's the obligatory blobby cardigan picture:
Still going strong, but now I can't seem to find a tape measurer anywhere in my apartment. I think I may have packed them all up this past weekend and moved them with the rest of the yarn. I'm sure I'll find some way to measure this to see if it's the inches I want. If nothing else, I'll have to try the thing on and see.
Don't forget about the contest in the previous post! Dana is on the right track and may have guessed the pattern, but I'm not going to say yay or nay on if she's right. The last hint I have to give you is that the pattern does indeed come from Knitty.com and it also looks similar to at least one pair of socks I have made before. That should help you narrow it down even further!
I'm also getting the travel sock ready to go for this weekend, so I started winding the two skeins of Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock in the Franklin's Panopticon colorway. This is where the contest comes in...
And for those of you who have no clue what the Lorna's colorway looks like, here is the Panopticon colorway that is inspiring me to knit a certain pattern:
Good luck and knit on...
There you go, Greenjeans blob. Hey, at least it's knitting content on this blog :oP
I really like how this pattern made the blue in the sock yarn really stand out. They turned out great and I intend to wear them today. Tonight it will be back to the Mr. Greenjeans cardigan for a while and then collecting yarn for my mom's belated Mother's Day gift. She asked for a vest after I asked if there was anything I could knit for her, so vest it is.
Monkey sock in Roadside Gerry colorway of Lorna's Laces. I like how it's looking and the second one will probably be finished this weekend on the bus rides to and from seeing DF.
And a closer up:
I also am working on the Mr. Greenjeans cardigan. So far, I have been enjoying the pattern and it really is super easy. Here's the latest picture:
I can tell already that this is going to be hard to photograph well as long as it's on these needles since it's all bunched up. Hopefully I'll get some more progress made on this tonight as well.
