Jeans and Sneakers

So I went to the recital yesterday, and had a good time. My brother in law was really good, and so were some of the other people who preformed.

Classical guitars yeild very beautiful music. I didn’t know that the proper way to play was propping your foot up on that little stand!! I was so confused when they brought that out. Oh well. It was a good time, and the teacher was very cool.

Afterwards, we all (everyone who was in the recital, the teacher, another woman named Sue, and my sister and I,) went to this Korean restaurant for dinner. I had no idea what to expect. I found out I don’t like Korean food. Lol, at least what we had. I tried a little kimchee, some weird vermicelli rice noodles my sister had, and I got some dish in a sizzling stone bowl that had mountain vegetables and spinach over sticky rice with tofu. . . I thought it’d have sauce, but it didn’t, and I wasn’t a huge fan. At least I tried it though.

Then we went back to my sister’s apartment, we were going to go out and karaoke, but it was getting late, and I just wanted to go home, so I did.

But I got lots of compliments on my socks!

Yay for making matching socks!! I was so pleased with how the stripes came out. The pattern was good, very simple, although I must be stupid, because I flew through the first sock and had absolutely no problems understanding the pattern. Then I took a break from them and did my friend’s socks, and when I came back to do the second one, I lost intelligence somewhere around the heel. I don’t know what happened, but I wasn’t sure (even though I was kind of copying the first sock at that point too) how many rows the pattern said to make the heel flap, and even now, I think I may have done the first sock wrong, and consequently, the second sock wrong as well. But I think that if I did it the way the pattern called for, (to knit as many rows in the heel as were sitches in the heel flap), the heel would have been ridiculously long.

I think the heel is perfect though. I only made the heel flap as long as half the stitches on the heel flap. But you’ll also notice, that I didn’t come out with the same number of decreases on both socks, which means I picked up a different amount of stitches along the side of the flap, even though the flaps have the same number of rows in them.

?!? I have no idea either. The stripes still ended up matching though. Which was all I was really concerned about. And they look so awesome!! I was worried that I had made the ankle cuff too short to look good, but they are perfect, and look really cute with my sneakers!

See! (Please excuse my dirty kitchen floor. My roomate has not completely moved out yet, and thus, I haven’t cleaned my house yet.)

I’m wearing them today with a skirt, (a denim one though, don’t worry, the jeans and sneakers title is preserved!) and my new sneakers that I bought last year but never wore. They look awesome! *Pats herself on the back for a pair well knit*.

Ok, enough gloating. On to further business.

Tomorrow I’ll get the birch pattern, and I’ll have to immerse myself in it. (And have no excuse to continue to ignore Sonnet, which I haven’t forgotten about, but haven’t picked up either.) So hopefully I won’t lose my marbles. I’m both excited and worried about working that pattern. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see how it goes.

In the mean time, I’ve gotten this much done of my first jaywalker.

Isn’t it beautiful!? The colors remind me of a ripe apple. I have a feeling I might slip and start calling these apple jacks. I guess I’ve fallen for Cherry Tree Hill sock yarn too. And metal dpn’s. It’s so nice to not have to fight your needles to pull the yarn over to the other side. . .and a bit tricky at times to get the yarn to not leap off the tip of your needles! But I’m enjoying it. It’s a shame I’ll have to stop just about here to start really working on the Mother’s Day presents. Oh well, I’ll come back to them and have a ball!

Check out the green of this yarn. I absolutely love this color way. Even if it doesn’t come out in stripes. And it was so much fun to roll up on my ball winder and finally get to use my swift!
Oh. Speaking of stripes. I *MAY* have purchased some superwash self striping sock yarn for my mom and I yesterday before I left the house. :-O My mom was surprised to hear that I can knit socks that are thin enough to fit into shoes and wear in the summer (she’s going to see my Karen’s socks today, I’m going to stop by and say hello), and I thought it would be great if I could make her a pair of simple socks in great purple stripes, since purple is her favorite color. I might make her jaywalkers. It depends on how well I take to the pattern, and also, they will not get started until after Mother’s Day and after I finish MY jaywalkers. The yarn I bought for me was a colorway I was actually thinking of trying to dye myself. So since here it was, superwash and already dyed, I figured I’d buy it, and if I really liked it, I could dye some more of my own. Which led me to add some superwash undyed sock yarn to my order. !!! I know, so bad, but it was at a great price!!

And really quick about the roomate situation. . . here it is, the last day of April, and he’s just started to REALLY start moving stuff. Yesterday he told me that he’d be back and forth all this coming week to move things. I got pretty pissed at that. We told him a month and a half ago that he had until May 1st to be out. Not that he had to start moving out May 1st. >:[ I’ve started to think, just so long as he gets out, ever, I’ll be alright. I dunno though. Whatever.
I have to get ready to go, so I’m gonna end here. More soon though!

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