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Lichen 3.0

Posted on by Elka Bolhafner

Nancy Bush, as I am sure any knitter would agree, is a sock knitting queen.  I was lucky enough to take a class with her at Stitches Midwest over a decade ago and she is a real delight.  Her Folk Socks book was the first sock knitting book I ever purchased about 22 years ago now.  One would think all this fan girl talk would result in copious socks but any blog reader of mine will know I do not consider myself a sock knitter.  Tho I do knit socks.  Probably a lot more than I think I do considering my husband and myself plus my child all have socks.  It just doesn’t seem as if I am knitting them! Case in point Lichen from Knitting Vintage Socks:

Lichen

 Ignore the couch.

This is a basic 3/1 ribbed sock with an unusual heal and toe-or at least unusual for me since I usually work a short row heal and toe ala my other favorite sock pattern-Michelle’s Basic Socks.  Michelle’s are a 4/1 rib and was my go to sock pattern for a long time.  Lichen I knit twice in the span of a week way back when.  I knit myself a pair out of gray yarn and a pair that was made out of self striping yarn.  The self striping was for a gal who admired the first pair while I was at a women’s retreat so I whipped them out super super fast.  Plus retreat is code for lots of knitting time and no cooking, cleaning, children etc.  At the time {2006? 2007?} I posted about what a difference yarn choice can make and this will be another example.  I made this set out of Alpaca with a Twist yarn and I can already tell they are not going to last nearly as long as my Regia-ish {you know the Regia type of yarn} gray pair which is looking worn.  But they are cozy warm and I love them already.

More fun details.  I *believe* I started these when I finished Strokkur so Nov 2017.  I finished these yesterday so Thanksgiving 2018.  I am starting to think I should stop calling myself a knitter given that I so rarely knit.  But it was such a large part of my identity for so long I am struggling.  Ah well

Yarny days and knitterly evenings

Braided Pulse Warmers

Posted on by Elka Bolhafner
Finished Pulse Warmers

Well it has been a long time and so it should come as no surprise that I completed my Braided Pulse Warmers.    In fact I finished them on the 16th of last month so a while ago.  Today I found a spot of sun and had my kid take pictures.  As you may be able to tell the pulse warmer goes up a good bit on my forearm.  The Braid is just at my wrist juncture.  It was a fun easy knit taking only a few days to complete although I spread this out.  I actually was worried about running out of my main color since I was using remnants.  I ended up with loads of yarn.  Okay not really:

Yarn Chicken…

I am currently working on a pair of socks for myself.  I came across a singleton while unpacking boxes so decided to finish up the pair.  As usual I left no notes for myself about what I was doing in regards to cast on, gusset stitches picked up and other niceties.  Thankfully, I had my handy dandy pins there counting rows and my needles were stuck in ball of yarn.  As long as my tension didn’t go too off since last winter we should be fine.  Lichen Ribbed Socks from Knitting Vintage Socks.  I have made this particular pattern at least twice that I can recall.  This version is being made in gray alpaca blend which means silky and super warm.  I hope to be finished with those this weekend so am mulling over knitting options.

yarny days and knitterly evenings to you all

~Elka