When Knitting Was a Manly Art

I’m actually knitting…

One old fart foot and beginnings of toe-up sock..

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Early shift today and a quick post to start it.

Think I’m stuck with knitting socks for now. Can’t get my head around anything more complicated. Cat Bordhi toe-up still coming along smoothly. Except for my dissatisfaction with the way the toe cast on came out, it’s looking pretty nice in Socks That Rock (Guppy colorway).

If this works out, I’ll cast on a pair for Eileen in the TOFUtsie next. Socks make easy take along projects and take little mental requirements and are pretty mindless for the most part.

Ok, now off to work..

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As some may know, there was a major problem with earlier versions of WordPress that allowed a registered user to gain administrative access and place a backdoor into the database.

Since I was way behind in updating, I was vulnerable. The upgrade was successful, but I’ve decided as a precaution to remove all external, registered users and disallow any further registrations. The blog is completely usable without registration and nothing gained by registering.

Obligatory Knitting Content: working on a pair of toe-up socks from Cat Bordhi’s newest book. Cast-on toe using local knitting maven, Judy Becker’s invention. Any easy cast-on, but I’m not fully happy with my implementation of it. Pictures when I’ve made real progress.

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Anyone worked with Soysilk?

I picked up a couple of skeins of ‘TOFUtsies’ at OFFF for a pretty good price. 50% superwash wool, 25% Soysilk, 22.5% cotton and 2.5% Chitin(?). Real nice colorway for a pair of ladies socks. Never tried Soysilk or any of the other ‘green’ fibers, like bamboo and wondering folks opinions.

The pair of toe-up socks I’ve just started haven’t progressed much past the toes, so I think I’m going to rip it out and try Cat Bordhi’s socks from ‘Personal Footprints’. Interesting way to knit socks. I’ve got way too much sock yarn right now.

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Probably one of my best Saturdays in a long while.

Yarn, sheep, goats, fiber, spinners, knitters. I’m realizing how much I’ve been missing.

Show and Tell with the Gearhart. Found it’s in pretty good shape. Just needs some oiling and adjustments of tension. Think I’ll be taking better care of it.

Didn’t buy much. Couple skeins of yarn. 60″ double points to learn sock knitting on a single double point and Cat Bordhi’s newest sock knitting book, “Personal Footprints”.

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Only close of the restaurant for the week and it was a busy one. Winding down and hoping to get to bed soon.

OFFF (Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival) is this coming weekend and I’m going to make it for the first time in about 4 years. Hope to see a few people from twitter and/or my blog there. I’ll be dragging along my Gearharts circular sock machine to show a couple of folks and with the hope I *MIGHT* find somebody to help be get it working correctly.

Also started a mindless scarf. Sometimes mindless is a good thing..

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Relatively quiet day at the restaurant. Busy until about 2pm and pretty much dead until relieved at 4pm.

Weird schedule tomorrow. Start 1/2 hour after opening (11:30) and work until early evening (7:30). At least I’m not closing.

Little bit of work on toe-up sock. Just trying to keep working at it.

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Looking much like it did before upgrade. I’m sure there will be continuing tweaks and the admin side is going to take some getting used to.

Knitting.. Nothing. Think I’m going to give up on the little sweater again for a while. I’ve got a couple of skeins of sock yarn that’s aching to be used and it’s a bit easier to carry along.

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Another busy week. Not much on the little sweater. Did pick up stitches for second sleeve and added a couple rounds.

Having way too much fun with my new iPhone. Phone, music *and* the internet at all times. What more could a geek asked for.

Since I’m getting fiber urges again, I’m planning on attending Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival this year. First time in a few years and I’ll only be to be there on Saturday, September 26, but I’ll probably be out on the lawn knitting on and off during the day. And I’ll probably be bringing my Gearhart sock knitter along and see if I can find someone to help get it working or maybe point me at someone to restore it.

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Now on to other sleeve and neck band. Progress will continue slowly. Busy life right now.

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