Textileophile

 Life is moving along at a clipped pace!  The surgery was moved up to the early part of December so a lot is happening around here, mostly in my mind, to prepare. I had to stop everything to crochet the world's coolest dude, Tom Servo: Well, I've done his barrel body and part of his hover skirt, but I haven't gotten a picture of all that.  There's quite a bit of improvising for this. The pattern itself was the author's improvisation and well, it's not very thorough.  Adding to the complication, I'm using fingering yarn and the pattern is for aran(roughly double the thickness of fingering yarn).  I thought it would shrink down proportionately, but it did not. So, I'm letting a lot of the stress go and just having fun figuring it out as I go. The sweater. I knew you were going to ask me about that. Well.  The blocking did not go as expected.  In fact, only 4" or so of the sweater was the gauge I was expecting it to be.  the rest was entirely too small

 You know that thing when you don't do a thing for awhile and it grows in your mind and gets overwhelming and you forget where to even start when you get back to it? Blogging here has kind of become that.  Which is a shame, because like usual, I have things to talk about! The cat spin/knit for one, life news, and a finished item! Finished item first, naturally!   These are my typical 64 stitch sock with the eye of partridge heel.  I knit them in about 3 weeks, which isn't bad!  They are perfectly matched, from the cast on to the toe, so that's neat.  I used felici yarn from knit picks in the 'vampire vibes' colorway. I originally planned these to go to Hazel, but I gave her a few pairs of hand-me-down socks in the last few weeks and decided to keep them for myself. [Hand-me-down, as in I knit socks for myself and they turned out not to fit me that great?  I have so many socks now that giving some lightly worn socks (and less worn than a typical pair since they don&#