Knitting: Collywobbles

I really started knitting again when I moved. I don't know if it was because I REALIZED how much yarn I had or if I found a few things that I had misplaced. It could also be that I was now without a roommate and had a living room all to myself. Since I found a place to knit I've been seeking out people who knit (mostly by watching podcasts.) One of them is Fibre Town. She is who wrote the Collywobbles pattern and who gave it away for her birthday!

I had just purchased this Imagination yarn by Knit Picks which just so happens to be sock yarn.

I wanted to take you from skien to sock just so you non-knitters will understand what the process is like.

To make sure the I don't have to deal with knots during my knitting I spin it from what is called a skien on to a ball winder. Once it's taken off there it's called a cake or a cake of yarn.

Check out those pops of red. Mmmm dreamy! I'd actually been looking at several different yarns with similar color splashes. This one just happened to go on sale.

This was my second attempt to get the pattern correct. It creates very simple versions of butterflies. Collywobbles is word for the butterflies you get in your stomach.

See where the red is grouping? That is pure happenstance. When it happens by accident it's called pooling or color pooling. If you do it on purpose it's called planned pooling. If you have a moment google planned pooling. People use variegated or multi-colored yarn to create all sorts of effects.

Same yarn, different lighting.  I had just just really gotten started on the foot. It was so exciting.

I try on everything I knit a hundred times. It's half impatience and half wanting to make sure it's the right size. This sock was perfect. Now to knit the toe!

This is a sock blocker from knit picks. Why block socks? It can help spread the pattern and spread the stitches so it will fit like a perfect sock. It also makes socks easier to photograph.

This is very desaturated, but You can really see the little butterflies. How cute! One sock down. Now I have SSS (second sock syndrome). It's when you knit a sock but don't have the will to start the second sock just yet. One of the reasons I haven't started knitting the second sock yet, is because of NaKniSweMo.

Have you ever knit a sock? Do you have any other knitting projects?