Sorry about missing yesterday!! I have completely lost steam on the sock challenge and will be lucky to finish pair #11 tonight. Below is the first completed Tile sock from Socks, Socks, Socks done in worsted weight Blackberry Ridge yarn. I initially tried the Tile Socks with sport weight but couldn't fit them over my heel. I think I have done too much "easy" knitting lately. I'm going to continue to knit socks through October though but I hope to try some more intricate patterns.



I'll be back Sunday with lots of good Taos Wool Festival loot to show you. I hope to purchase the last 2 issues of Spin-Off, lots of Cormo yarn, and perhaps another Tracy Eicheim spindle. If he doesn't bring any spindles, maybe I'll look into some new cards or more alpaca fleece. There's also a new yarn store in Taos, the Taos Sunflower, I may try to find. I believe it is near the ski area. I'm probably going to ignore La Lana Wools altogether this year as nothing there is in my price range.

Lately I'm trying to restrain myself from buying MORE YARN. All I can think about is MORE YARN and MORE YARN. I keep checking all the yarn stores online for MORE YARN even though I know I'll be buying MORE YARN Saturday at the Taos Wool Festival. If I'm offline, I'm perusing my catalogs and thinking about MORE YARN.



I need to do a serious house cleaning because I've lost Peaches. I simply cannot find my brown rabbit girl anywhere. Where could she be? She has simply vanished into thin air.

One of these days I want to do a project with colors that I am sure I'd hate together. Occasionally I knit something and the colors look awful while I'm knitting but when I'm finished somehow the colors look fine together as a whole.



These Fireside socks using various colors of handspun and hand-dyed yarns are a good example. The whole time I was knitting I thought the colors were hideous but they look better as a whole. Yes, these are number #10 in the sock challenge.

What a crazy weekend! You'll have to wait until tomorrow for another sock photo. I had two friends request a handknit pair of socks this weekend so I'll be knitting socks even after the September sock challenge ends.



Please go check out June's beautiful handspun lace wedding shawl. She finished it just in time for her wedding next week.



Today's photo shows Peaches in the middle of a parsley snack.











If you're talented at coming up with names for pets, go to The Blog of Pratt and help him come up with a name for his adorable new house rabbit.

I really enjoyed working with this soft yarn for the Checkers & Squares Fair Isle socks from Blackberry Ridge Farm. This is my 9th pair of socks for the month and I do believe I'm going to aim for 12 by next Thursday. I will probably post once before Sunday with another pair completed.

I keep forgetting I have a few links I wanted to include here. All this sock knitting is making me forgetful!



First of all Susan sent me a wonderful textured argyle sock pattern. Check it out for yourself HERE. Thanks again for the lovely pattern Susan! I can't wait to try it out.



Secondly, I wanted to include a link to my new favorite blog, The Daily Scrabble Puzzle Blog. The bingo workouts are in SOWPODS but the solutions without a pound symbol are okay for OWL competition. I know I can get similar puzzles with my Scrabble CD-ROM but somehow it is more fun in a blog.



Finally, please send your good thoughts and prayers in knitblogger Deborah's direction. She lost her home and all her belongings as a result of hurricane Ivan. Deborah, I hope they let you back soon so you can start rebuilding.

I just ordered a ton of Harris Tweed from Elann to add to my fingering weight Shetland collection. I still need to come up with a colorful tone-on-tone project using all those reds I purchased previously.



The next pair of socks is coming along and will be done tomorrow afternoon. I'm stymied as to what to do after that. If my Herrschner's order comes I'll make another pair of Amy's Husbeast socks. If not, I guess I'll do another quickie pair of Fireside socks using up a bunch of different colors of handspun. The last pair I make for the month will be something using all 19 of the handspun rainbow yarn colors. It is always good to save the best for last.



I know it isn't nice for one female to comment on the enormous size of another female's posterior, but check it out.