I have officially finished my first pair of socks for the Summer of Socks 2007. As the Cupcakes would say, ‘Yay, me!!!’

Feast your eyes upon their woolly glory:

I used the Mystic Sea pattern in Lunasea, both from Blue Moon Fiber Arts.

Sadly, these little buggers have taken me two entire months to finish. I started them while I was at Sock Camp back in April. I’m hoping that this minor, albeit somewhat delayed, success will spur me on.

Now I’m going to go cast on for my next pair of socks…

I had a wonderful time at Sock Camp. I met some really terrific people, learned a lot, and it was amazing to spend so much time actually knitting. And sleeping. The sleeping was pretty terrific, too.

I have to admit, I’ve been experiencing a little re-entry shock since I came back on Saturday. DH left for China less than 24 hours after I got home. Cue the violins, please… No more all day knitting. No more all night sleeping. Poor me…

I’ll just have to console myself by posting some photos of Sock Camp. Especially since I don’t seem to be able to come up with anything clever to write.

Sock Camp was on Orcas Island. We completely lucked out and had nice weather nearly the whole time.

Orcas Island, looking lovely

Orcas Island, still looking lovely

So many socks.

But they paled before The Chickens.

Christine’s chicken

The Great Cockereel

Mama Chicken

Stariel’s chicken

Chappy’s chicken

More later…

Anything can happen. They might knit up a double helix, or even a model of the human digestive system. The entire human digestive system, tongue to tail, so to speak. You can see a picture of the finished work here. Very cool.

Thanks to David Reidy of the Sticks and String blog and podcast for the alert.

I managed to accomplish three things with my weekend off:

1. Buy a new red shirt to wear to the FCC Chinese New Year banquet. (Pictures here, if you’re interested.)
2. Finish knitting a sock.
3. Get really, really sick.

Clever, non?

Last weekend, however, ushered in an explosion of creativity, and hyperbole. On Sunday I finished the toddler dress I was making in the Learn to Sew class I was taking with the lovely and talented Denise. Et, voilà!

Note the groovy googly-eyed cat button. It may have been the result of a Project Runway overdose. I can’t say for certain.

Today I went out and bought fabric to make a second toddler dress, an apron (really, it will be cute. honest.), and a pair of pj pants for DH. Oh, and a magnetic pin thingie to pick up all of the pins I keep dropping on the floor. Pins are not so very good for Corgis, vacuum cleaners or two-year-olds.

And to top off the excitement…today my first Rockin’ Sock Club sock kit from Blue Moon Fiber Arts arrived in the mail. Yipee!!!!

Poor DH. He may not be seeing too much of me for a little while. But he will be getting a nice pair of coffee bean print pj’s as a lovely consolation prize…

The lovely ladies of Lime & Violet are hosting the Lime & Violet Sock Marathon 2007. They have a Flickr group set up and people have been posting pictures of their sock yarn stashes along with the approximate length of said stash. Since I’ve never actually figured out how much sock yarn I’ve hoarded collected I decided to take the opportunity to do an inventory.

Here’s what I found:

As you can plainly see it’s hardly any yarn at all, really. I mean it’s only 11.9 miles long (19.1 km for those of you who use the metric system). That’s not even a half-marathon, much less an entire marathon.

I have no idea why DH froze in the doorway and then started laughing uncontrollably when he came in to take this picture. No idea at all. . .