Jeans and Sneakers

So. I haven’t heard back from that yoga lady. Maybe she found someone else to sew her ridiculously easy project. That’s fine, her yoga studio is mad far from me anyway.

Yesterday, Rob and I watched a movie, and I knitted. I managed to get some more done on Sonnet:

Please excuse the blur of the picture, I was standing on my computer chair so that I could get the entire thing in the frame. Lol.

Since this project is symmetrical, you can see I’m nearly done with the entire body!! YAY! I was looking over the pattern while knitting yesterday and realized that I can’t finish the body without knitting buttonholes. And simple logic deduces that if you have not yet picked out the buttons for the project, you won’t know how big to knit the buttonholes. Ha.

It became apparrent that I needed to go button shopping. My only problem was that I’ve been trying. Button shopping on the internet is tricky though. I believe I’ve mentioned this before. But I didn’t know where to go to buy buttons in any actual stores. Ha. So I had an adventure.

I went to Jo-ann Fabrics first, and they had some good buttons, but nothing big enough. . .I used a kind of chunky yarn for this, and that paired with garter stitch I’m pretty sure would swallow a small button.

So then I went to Michael’s. They’re more of a craft store, but they sell yarn so I thought I’d give it a shot. Well, they only had really small scrapbooking buttons, and tiny ceramic buttons that were all cutesy. No dice.

The only Michael’s by me is pretty far east of here. And I know of a good yarn store about as far east but way north of there. So, in desperation for some freaking buttons, I drove all the way north, and went to Wild and Woolly Wools. This store is fun. Shoshana is really nice, and she’s got some beautiful yarns. She’s always helpful if you have any questions, so going was definitely worth the hike. The first yarn and needles I bought from myself, I’d purchased there. And what. . .I found buttons!!! Check it out:

Sorry for the dim lighting. I could have opened the blinds, but I didn’t want to cause a glare on Rob’s monitor.

These buttons are mother of pearl I think, and they’re huge. I bought 5 of them (and caught W&WW’s winter sale!!), and I’m so glad. They match beautifully. I promise when this piece is done, I’ll take some really nice and fitting pictures. . .since so far you can’t see the color of the yarn properly. . .or the beauty of the buttons. Anyway, these should work out great.

And also. . .uh, I might have accidentally bought some dpn’s, (and got a ball of sock yarn for free):

I didn’t think I’d like the colors, but there weren’t many balls to choose from. There were only two colors of the big balls that could yield two socks. . .it was either this, or orange, white, magenta and some other color. The magenta threw me off. I’ll pick blue over magenta any day.

So yeah, I had a nice little conversation with Soshana about knitting socks, (which I’ve never done, nor had she up until recently. I’ve never knitted on dpns.) and how when they’re done you want to wear them all the time and show off your handiwork. Sounds like me alright. So I came home and cast on:

After looking long and hard for “the perfect sock pattern”. I don’t think the one I’m working on is perfect. . .for one, I should have known better than to do something in a 2×2 rib. . .I tend to like 1×1 better, at least on something this small. Other than that, I learned a nifty new way to cast on that leaves a stretchy edge, which is always nice. I’m worried about the heel gusset. . .but until I actually get there, I’m going full steam ahead. Haha. Even Rob was impressed at how crazy it looks to knit on 4 dpn’s. I’m enjoying being enchanted by the self patterning yarn. I’ve never played with any before. And just because I’m hopelessly infatuated, here’s another pic:

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