Easter Egg Socks

We travelled to San Francisco a couple weeks ago for a few days. I decided to take one of my sock blanks along and knit up a pair of socks. I used the toe-up two-at-a-time pattern on KnitPicks.com website and just about completed the socks during the trip - of course, getting our flight cancelled in Denver helped provide the extra time to do that! I guess there's a silver lining in every cloud! I'm calling these my Easter Egg socks because they really look like the colors on Easter Eggs - maybe that's what I get for using food color and vinegar to dye the sock blank!

Sock Blanks

I recently purchased two sock blanks from Knit Picks. I also purchased dye, but I knew at least one of my cats would likely participate (there's just no shutting these guys out), so I used food coloring adapting Julie Theaker's "cold pour method" described in her Knitting: Spring 07 article "Color to dye for." The photographs show the "wrong" side, but I thought that side photographed the best. The top photograph features my helper, Greta. I also relied on the McCormick Neon colors - the purple in the bottom photograph and the lime green in the top one are particularly striking. I wonder if any of the colors glow in the dark? Now to see how these knit up into socks!

Needled to Death, by Maggie Sefton - A Book Review

I just finished the second in this series, Needled To Death. I liked this one, even better than the first. The characters are now getting more dimensional - particularly Jennifer, one of Kelly's friends. This entry in to this series is a page-turner and even though I guessed the outcome correctly early on, there were enough clues to make me unsure of my guess. For those of you who haven't delved into this series, I'm glad to report the heroine, Kelly, is making progress in her knitting!