on and off the needles

 Opal socks are finished #2 for 2013!!!!!! Delivering them to college girl this weekend.

 Morning coffee socks, I only work on these with my morning coffee, they are a sport weight yarn 50/50 of merino wool and bamboo. Deliciously soft. The pattern is in Wendy D. Johnson's book Socks from the Toe Up.

I'm brave, I'm trying a sweater, a neck down raglan sleeve. so far so good just knit a row with yarn overs at the sleeve then purl back. We'll see if it is still so smooth when I get to the under arm. The yarn is a DK weight tweed.
 I have a soft spot for tweeds. My gramma made a  skirt for me from a pair of my grampa's wool tweed trousers. He died when I was 5. The skirt was pleated with a waistband and suspenders and a trim that they bought in Sweden in the 1950's. I wore the skirt until the suspenders were too short then my mother took them off and probably moved the hook and let down the hem. She let the hem down a couple times because I remember it being very narrow with seam tape and being very upset that it couldn't be made longer even though that would have been the beginning of the mini skirt era. It was my absolute most favorite skirt. Tactile things bring back memories. --Ann-- Lots of knitting at Judy's on the needles.