Fiber Madness

It’s starting to rub off!   Finally!  My six year old is on the couch repeating, “in, across, around, and off”.  It’s her shorthand on how to knit.  She has completed three rows flawlessly and I couldn’t be prouder!   She knits very loosely, but that actually makes it easier for her to move the stitches around.  She has a pair of kid’s needles she’s using that are exactly the right size for her small hands and fingers.  My 9 year old is crocheting daisies.  We’ve picked up a few booklets about learning how to crochet and I think we found one that works for her.  It will work better if she quits asking me what a yarn over is every 10 seconds and actually looks at the book.  Honestly, she will not believe or listen to me anyway.

Oh well, she’s pitched it across the room in frustration, so there goes that.

Wow, finally got these socks off the needles.  They were put down so many times I was getting worried that I wouldn’t finish them before my mind wandered to something else.  I’m very happy with how they turned out.  I used size 2 US needles and Fortissima Socka yarn (60% superwash/25% bamboo/15% nylon) in color#0005.   I used one 100g ball and there is plenty left over.  It took me until somewhere on the leg of sock #2 for the pattern to really click in my head, which was great, because then I didn’t need to be checking the pattern every two seconds to make sure I was doing it right.

Next up for socks?  Socks for dad!