Lovely weather for tea and knitting

We've gotten the first hints that fall is on its way in PDXville: it's a cool, rainy weekend. No excuses needed to stay indoors and knit. The back of Kingscot is coming right along:



The yarn is knitting into fabric that's lovely and oh! so soft. But it's not so soft that the cables get lost:



I wonder why I thought a wool-bamboo combination was going to be difficult to knit!

Speluking

I went spelunking in the sewing loft today, trying to find the pedal and power cord to my serger. I didn't find 'em. But I did find the box of dpns and circs that has been missing since the move.

I'm puzzled by the missing serger bits, though. I usually leave myself Really Obvious Clues when I pack parts of items separately -- and clearly I packed them separately because the serger is on the counter and the power cord (with attached pedal) isn't.

Good news: I'm running out of places to look.
Bad news: I'm running out of places to look.

Progress on other fronts: After working on nothing but socks for the past month (two pairs of RPMs for the Sock Summit museum and thank-you socks for the Guinness World Record attempt judges), I'm finally back to working on the Woobu Kingscot. There's even visible progress!

(Well, fine. I'll post a progress pic later, when Blogger's gnomes wake up.)

... time passes... look!



And now that I can upload the image, I'm going to add that that was taken 20 row ago. Gotta love knitting progress, even if my inability to locate the serger's foot pedal and power chord has impeded sewing progress.

BLECH!!!

(if I may be so rude...)

It's entirely too hot to think -- never mind type, never mind think coherently -- but I'm still managing to knit. Excuse me?!? 101*F/38*C a 8 p.m.?!? Great. Another record-setting day.

rpm#3 finished, and #4 is past the heel and at the decreasing-the-gusset stage.

A week from this moment, I'll be finishing my first shift as a Sock Summit volunteer. This is, frankly, so awesome that I have no words. Even in this heat.

rpm, rev 2

Lost two days driving from Portland to Monterey Bay and back, but there's progress...
More stitches on the needles (size large, with heel flap) this time, so the striping is entirely different.

rpm

First variation. Done, and done, for the Sock Museum at Sock Summit:



Blue Moon Fiber Arts, Socks That Rock mediumweight, in Tigers Eye.
(now casting on the second pattern variation, in Blarney Stone)

Woo Hoo, Woobu!

The next project:



Norah Gaughan's Kingscot[e] in BMFA Woobu. I groveled, begged, pleaded with Tina to let me buy some Woobu in a Raven color (Haida) for this sweater. She's stopped dyeing Ravens in Woobu because the colorways turn out silver-y, not black. Apparently some people didn't read the warnings about how Woobu dyes up differently than all-wool fiber (duh, bambu and wool? plant and animal? there's a difference...) and were disappointed.

Huh. Their loss, frankly! I am SO loving the way that the pattern highlights the color and yarn.

(Here's what a poor, abused, formerly lovely cake of yarn looks like, after a day stuffed into a backpack:
)

All of this is about to be set aside because I've just received the yarn needed to make RPMs for the Sock Summit Sock Museum.

Woo hoo!

Button, button, who's got the button?

That's what's next on this beauty. (What a difference a week makes!)



I'm quite pleased, frankly. This pic is a bit gappy, but that's 'cause there's ten stitches in the center front that will be lost to steaking. Call me twitchy, but I'm not going to steak until I'm ready to work the button band, and I'm not going to work the front bands until I have buttons.

The end is in sight! (Please ignore that it was 103*F (according to the thermometer on the south side of my house) yesterday, and I'm finishing a wool sweater. Okay?)