Well, life has been happening with a vengeance around our house the past few days.  So you’ll have to forgive me for just throwing out a couple of updates here.

First of all, there are a few spots left in the Knitting 911 class this Thursday night at Knitting Bee.  This class is always a lot of fun for me, to watch knitters go from "how did you do that?" to "I can do that!" in a mere two hours.  Call Knitting Bee at 503.439.3316 if you’re interested!

KNITTING 911
Thursday, 5-21-09     6:00-8:00 pm

"When good stitches go bad"  If your biggest knitting complaint is that you don’t know what to do when it’s screwed up, this is the class for you.  We’ll work with a swatch so there’s "no fear" and we’ll make and fix many common mistakes.  Learn important things about the way knitted fabric "works" that you didn’t know were important!  Class fee: $25

rite of spring lace sock

Secondly, the "Rite of Spring" lace sock pattern, which was the April exclusive to the Fearless Fibers lace club, is now available for everyone to purchase as a Ravelry download!  let’s see if this works…

pink lace socks

I am unsure whether you have to be a Ravelry member to use that button.  (But if you’re not, what the heck are you waiting for?)

I finished my own pair and here’s the proof — yay!

In actual knitting news, I have been working diligently on the Socks from Hell for DH.  Well, I actually ripped out and restarted the Socks from Hell.  (And I had gotten the damned things past the heel — both of ‘em!!)

Turns out they were really too tight and the ribbing was really stretched out when DH put them on, and they just looked crappy.  So I started over, and fixed a couple of things, including what I think is a mistake in the pattern stitch — and I’m really a lot more happy with them than I would have ever thought I could be with this project.  So I’ll be discussing those in more detail in my series on sock designing.  Just not today…