Mortaine’s Blog

We now have four members signed up to walk to Hawaii over on America on the Move! This is awesome! If you’d like to sign up and join us, comment here or drop me an email and I’ll send you a registration code. AOM is free to use– create a full access account so you can sign up right proper. Once you do, sign up for the Pacific Crest challenge, because its goals are similar to the ones we’re aiming for. We’ll delve into more of the tools later. I’m thinking we should set September 30 as the close date for signing up. I’d like us all to get to Hawaii around the same time, after all.

Anyway, Click here to download the Excel spreadsheet I’m using! Feel free to tweak it to your own needs!

In the plans: Some way to talk to each other about our goals/progress. I’m going to send out a short poll to find out: do you want a LiveJournal community, an email/web group (Yahoo! group or Google?), a private listserve, or just swap everyone’s email addresses? Do you want a non-LJ group blog where we can post our progress, or something more private? If you’re in the challenge, think about this and watch your inbox.

This is a popular yarn for socks this month on the Sock-a-Month Knit-a-long, and I wonder if it’s because the colors are bold and vibrant, so we all bought it in the summertime, or if everyone else is like me, and planning to spend the Fall in the desert. When I received this yarn as a birthday gift, I about drooled, because it reminds me of Sedona, Arizona– where I’ll be in 2 weeks!

The pattern is a glom together of “basic sock” patterns, mainly from the The Knitter’s Handy Book of Patterns: Basic Designs in Multiple Sizes & Gauges (Interweave) by Ann Budd. The leg/cuff is done in twisted rib stitch, which I got from Getting Started Knitting Socks (Getting Started series) by Ann Budd (huh– guess the pattern is Ann Budd’s!) When I saw this twisted rib, I fell instantly in love. I particularly love how the Lorna’s Laces pooling goes directly opposite the rib. Far out!

Both the Getting Started book and socks were birthday presents last month (Thanks, Pam and Michelle!), so I suppose it took me just over a month to finish these socks!