A Bluestocking Knits

We Interrupt These Waffles for a Dishcloth --

Since finishing the yoga socks, I've been plugging away at the Blueberry Waffles and am now a ways into the foot on the first sock, but paused a few hours to whip out a house-warming gift, a set of bright dishcloths.

The pattern is the Reversible Pips Dishcloth by Hannah Maier, available free from KnitPicks, part of their "52 Weeks of Dishcloth Patterns" series. I found this new (to me?) color of Sugar 'n Cream at Michael's the other day -- "Psychedelic"!  You can always use a bit of cheerfulness when washing dishes.  Two balls of the yarn made three full-sized cloths quite easily, with a small ball left over.

The pattern works up very quickly -- the only quibble I have is that the finished cloth doesn't lie quite flat.  I actually had to block it for the photos.  I liked the designer's note that the pips give the cloth "plenty of scrubbing power" -- the psychedelic part was a bonus.

I washed them thoroughly before sending them off, since the yarn did this to my needles and fingers! -- the first time I've ever experienced this with Sugar 'n Cream.

Thoughts on Some Yoga Socks

I finished these yoga socks at the beginning of the month, but to tell you the truth, I'm so tired of them that I couldn't be bothered posting about them until now.  I played around with the "toy camera" setting when I was taking the picture, just to make it a little less boring.

One skein of Berocco Comfort Sock, in color 1810 "Invercargill", on I think 2.5 mm needles.  I can't remember which pattern I used -- probably this one, just with a continuous 3x1 rib.

On the bright side, the yarn in 3x1 rib is very stretchy, so I could make knee socks without any shaping at all.

I actually meant these as more of a sock dickey than for yoga -- because I'd heard that acrylic yarns make your feet sweatier than cotton or wool does, I thought, "oh, yoga socks over cotton ones!".  This is I think a good idea, but these have rather large heel openings, which means that the white sock underneath shows above the top of my shoes -- if I do this again, I'll make the opening a little smaller.

Sorry for the crummy lighting, indoors and out -- it's actually raining at the moment!  "Ten percent chance," the weather man said!  In the middle of a drought!  It looks like it won't do much more than get the pavement damp, but gosh, you take what you can get!

And just because I'm pleased with these, here are some gratuitous roses shots, an oldish one and a new one --

These are "Duchesse de Brabant" -- in January! -- and the one below is "Sharifa Asma".