Monkey progress

I finally cast on for my second Monkey sock on the Labour Day weekend. Me and JF went to Lévis near Québec city to visit his grandparents and I knit in the car on the way there and on the way back. Since then I've managed to finish the leg and start the heel. Check it out!

I love this pattern, I find that the repeats are so easy to remember after just a couple of repeats; I've barely picked up the pattern for the 2nd sock. Hopefully they will be done soon and I can move on to JF's Here and There Cabled scarf along with other Christmas knitting (I knit slow and I want to knit a few gifts this year)

In other knitting news, the progress that I had blogged about here is no longer, I realized that at some point while I was knitting in Newfoundland I obviously was doing more talking that knitting and I'd managed to increase 1 side of 1 sock by 2 stitches, and this had been going on for a few rows. I wasn't really that happy about the way it was going on the 1 circular needle either, so I ripped it all out, and I will be starting over on dpns, or 1 sock on 1 dpn instead of both at once.

I'm starting to get a pretty impressive queue for my projects that I want to do, and I'm not even on Ravelry yet. I want to make a lot of hats and scarfs. I have been borrowing books from the library and coveting some patterns online. Right now the one that sticks out most is this one, Sarah from Montreal Knits is doing it in Noro Silk garden and it's just amazing. I love berets as there one of the only hats I can wear without looking like I have no hair, my hair is always short.

Speaking of Ravelry, as of this very instant there are only 40 people ahead of me, so I should probably get the invite tomorrow. Finally. I signed up on July 1st and forgot I did so, so I signed up again with another email address on August 9 and that email address is still showing 12189 people ahead of me.. OH BOY!

Tomorrow should be a fun day, except for the earlier part, I took the day off due to a orthodontists appointment and I'm going to spend some of my day with Robyn since we never get a chance to hang out in the day. More about that later, theres always a chance of there being more yarn..