Colorful and stripey

I finished the Patchwork socks a while ago. According to Ravelry, on January 27th. I’m just really, really forgetful when it comes to taking pictures and even more forgetful when it comes to blogging. They’re nice socks, though, and I’m wearing them for the first time today.

And I can’t believe that even though the sock on the right is totally longer than the sock on the left, it still looks like it’s shorter. Crazy striping, playing tricks on the eyes.

I’m plugging away on finishing up the merino silk. I finished off the first bobbin a week or two ago, and I’m making pretty good progress on the second. I didn’t really expect to spend so much time spinning as I have been, but I guess Mass Effect 2 isn’t proving to be as addicting as Dragon Age was. It’s still a great game, but for some reason it just doesn’t have the same pull that keeps me playing for hours and hours, for weeks on end. Hopefully, I’ll finish up the second bobbin soon, so I can devote my time to the Ravelympics.

And speaking of the Ravelympics, is it bad that I haven’t decided on a project yet? I was planning on knitting the Bitterroot shawl from the Winter 2009 Knitty, but I counted up the yardage of the yarn I was planning to use, and it comes in just slightly over what the pattern calls for. And I’m a little afraid that the yarn is being stretched on my niddy noddy, which would mean there’s even less yarn than I counted. I’d hate to knit 95% of the shawl, only to discover I’m short. Then I don’t have a shawl and I don’t have a finished Ravelympics project. So, tonight I’m going home and searching through my stash for something that wants to be knit. I’m kind of tempted to use the yarn I was using for an Estes vest for the Rooibos vest Knitty Surprise. The Estes vest is definitely a candidate for frogging, and the Roobios vest is a pretty good substitute pattern for that yarn. Otherwise, I’m going to end of defaulting to socks, and that’s just boring. I always knit socks, and the Ravelympics is, in my opinion, a good time to challenge myself a little and do something a little different. I still have about 26 hours to decide. That’s plenty of time to make up my mind, right?