Wretched Excess, and String the knitting Thing

**string** · 18th December 07, 10:52 AM

Well my dears, I can tell you a few things (no pictures until I get at the high speed again) I am knitting them from the toe up on 2 circular needles (size 3), and I have finished the toe and am about an inch and a half into the foot. It is seeming extraordinarily large, but I am trying to keep in mind that my feet are especially narrow and that the measurements are all coming out correctly. They are 100% cream superwash merino DK weight, and very very soft. I'm hoping to get more work done on them today, after I finish my enormous list my mother left for me when she went to work.

ccga3359: that is very nice, and the joke made more sense when the picture loaded

oh and if I'm typing that usually means I am knitting... I can type rather quickly with my right hand and knit in between.

**CactusJack** · 18th December 07, 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by string

oh and if I'm typing that usually means I am knitting... I can type rather quickly with my right hand and knit in between.

Damn girl you are good..

**Chase** · 18th December 07, 11:05 AM

I'm jonesing over a pair of hand-spun, finger-woven ties that are cranberry colored that should match my Maple Leaf Tartan from Peter at CCK...Yes, I'm equally excitied about both and hopefully will have them by the end of the year.

You go girl.

Chase

**Moosedog** · 18th December 07, 11:09 AM

String,

Are you using a pattern for these? My mom would like to make some hose from the toe up but every pattern she finds is unsatisfactory to her...I believe they make bumps in the foot area. Just curious.

Moosedog

**Arlen** · 18th December 07, 11:46 AM

Well done, Alan. There is something so incredibly comfortable about hand-knit hose.
The wait will be worth it.

**Woodsheal** · 18th December 07, 11:56 AM

Hey Alan! I think my order with String for hand-woven hose garters got in ahead of your hose order, so you'll have to wait...!

**Alan H** · 18th December 07, 01:09 PM

Originally Posted by Woodsheal

Hey Alan! I think my order with String for hand-woven hose garters got in ahead of your hose order, so you'll have to wait...!

With any luck at all, with all these hose and garter orders she's getting, we'll provide the lady with cash for books, yarn and recreational refreshments for her entire next quarter.

**Alan H** · 18th December 07, 01:14 PM

Originally Posted by pipesndrumsnun

Talent abounds here! Congrats on the new hose! I told some of the church ladies that if they wanted to become independently wealthy, they should give up knitting blankets and start knitting kilt hose!!

**I didn't tell the nuns this, though, because they couldn't keep the cash any way!

IN FACT..... if the church ladies wanted to labour in the fields of knitting, so to speak, and then give the profits of knitting kilt hose to the church, y'all might be on to something.

Beats stomping grapes into wine, don'tchaknow.

**string** · 20th December 07, 12:34 PM

Progress report, 1.5 pairs of garters done. One foot done on the hose. Eventually I will get to the post office while it is open but we're having transportation issues, my chauffeur (mom) is staying nights with a very ill old lady. I have taken photos but considering the dial-up has disconnected 4 times in the last 45 minutes... uploading will wait.

**cacunn** · 20th December 07, 01:13 PM

Originally Posted by pipesndrumsnun

**I didn't tell the nuns this, though, because they couldn't keep the cash any way!

You should have told the Nuns, they could have put little notes in the hose to save the heathen Scottish laddie in shirts, and maybe we could have gotten some inexpensive hand knit hose.

My hat is off to those that hand knit hose. It may look like a simple woolen bag but there is a lot of work there.

String give us a knit by purl description of what you are doing.