HGTV picks up Knitty Gritty

This is probably not news to many people b/c it happened at the beginning of December, but I just found out about it.  I figured if I didn’t know, others might not either.  They are airing the show 5 days a week right now, with new episodes on Mondays.  There is a form you can fill out to let HGTV know that you love having Vickie and all her knitty goodness on HGTV as well as DIY (apparently many more people get HGTV than do DIY Network…the things I just don’t know).

Here is the form to make comments to them about the show.  If you love having it on HGTV, drop them a note and let them know.  Even if you don’t watch the show, but want to be supportive of it as the premier (IMO) knitting show out there; Vickie is the person who inspired me most when I decided to start knitting, then stop b/c it was too hard, then start again b/c Vickie and her guests make it look so easy.  I actually watched the sock episode about 10 times in a row before I was ready to start trying to decipher a sock pattern.  I guess I feel like I owe my love for knitting to her.  She is my knitting maven and guru.  If you’re out there reading this, Vickie, you inspire me and I love you!!  (Stop thinking lewd things, folks…LOL)

 

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Still alive and still knitting socks

I have not been very good at keeping up with my blogging, I’m afraid.  I have, however, kept right now knitting.  I’m still in my sock phase, but have finally come to the realization that just “winging” it and trying to follow the pattern without any real understanding of the theory behind it makes for socks that look okay, but that’s it.  I don’t want “okay” socks, I want BEAUTIFUL socks, GORGEOUS socks.  

I have been bad about buying sock yarn lately.  Lots of great stuff at one particular store on EBay.  I have a ton of colorways in twinkletoes and in twinkletoes superwash.(Of course I didn’t separate them so I have to do a little felting test on my swatches so I know how to care for them).  I’ve also got a few hanks cashwool (for myself and for hubby) as well as two 1 lb. hanks of Rayon/silk half and half blend.  I’m not sure what to do with the last two, but I’m thinking the combo corset T from Knitty Gritty might be nice…but I digress.  The point about the yarn is that I don’t want to waste my beautiful sock yarn on socks that are “okay.”

I’ve been knitting from Sensational Knitted Socks and I just love the format.  I was working on a four stitch repeat pattern and realized that I had screwed up when it came to rearranging sts. so that the pattern would be right on the instep.  It hit me at this point that maybe I should have taken the  author’s advice and started with the “class sock”.

So, I’ve put aside my beautiful orange/red/yellow twinkletoes for some Caron Simply Soft in white and I’m off and running on the class sock.  Having some experience, limited as it might be, in sock knitting, I think this will just firm up the concepts in my mind and make for fewer frogging incidents later on in my socknitting endeavors.

I hope everyone had a wonderful “end of December” (I REFUSE to say “Happy Holidays”, it drives me mad for some reason…just too damn PC for me) and that you all got lots of great knitty presents, if you get presents at this time of year…LOL

I will post some pictures of the new yarn soon and maybe y’all can give me advice on what to make with the rayon/silk blend.

Until next time…

 

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