Jaywalker
I finished my Project Spectrum knitting project last week.
Pattern: Jaywalker by Grumperina in Magknits .
Yarn: Two hanks of Claudia’s Handpainted in Paprika.
Needles: Clover dpns in size 1.
Started: April 2nd
Finished: April 14th.
Here’s another picture of them.
I loved knitting these socks! I knitted them the old fashioned way with five dpns (as opposed to two circulars). I don’t think I have a preference. I think the only good thing about knitting socks on two circs may be that the project is more portable. I love this yarn! the color is amazing. It reminds me a lot of Koigu. It is spun the same way, I think. This pattern was fun, too. Perfect for a verigated yarn.
I added some more Kool-aide dye to my orange hank. I like the way it turned out! More orangey. I also tried to used the lemonaide Kool-aide to add yellow and it didn’t work. Oh well. It smells sooo good.
So the house hunting thing is not going so great. I had kind of an emotional week last week. I wrote about it here. We found a fantastic house that we love and we were going to make and offer on it, but then we sat down and crunched the numbers and realized that we just would not be able to make the mortgage. It’s depressing. I feel like I’m never going to get a house. I mean, I can’t even get what I want here in Spokane, where it’s supposedly less expensive than everywhere else. We have some things we are going to do, like pay down some credit card debt, and check into a few first-time homebuyers programs. So maybe that will help.
7 comments April 17th, 2006