Where there's a will....

...there's a way.

The Big Guy left for hunting camp for 10 days...

...with my son and my camera.

I had no idea I would miss my camera so much.

However, I am nothing if not industrious. I've been knitting and cleaning and cleaning and knitting. 

Now how am I going to show you the wonderful things I've created with no camera???

And then: Divine Intervention in the form of Ravelry.

A  genius posted in the forums last night, passing on some very, very useful information. 

Photobooth.  Well, Duh! Why didn't I think of that?

I've worked my tail off on the mystery sock, and last night (or early this morning depending how you look at it), I finished the 8th repeat of clue#2.

The reason for having to work my tail off? I ordered yarn specifically for this project. In my brilliant-ness, I waited until 3 days after clue#1 was released to order, and though it came in the mail lickety-split, I was waaay behind. In the meantime, I knit that cuff in about 6 different yarns. I wish I'd taken pictures of them all! You've never seen such ugly knitting!!

 I have a lot (oh, 'scuse me, that really should say 'A LOT') of sock yarn.

 I know there are many of you out there who have way, way more than I, but I'm usually pretty good about buying only what I'll use up. And I'm a slow knitter, so it isn't going to move really fast in this house. 

And of the 15 or 16 skeins of sock yarn...not a one of them isn't variegated. Apparently, I am all about the wild and crazy self striping yarns.

So I had to (HAD TO) order some semi-solid.

And I've been itching to order from Beth, the lovely lady of The Jewell's Handmade.

(I want one of her son's swifts, too!)

This is celery (and that brown-ness you see should be just a lighter green; best I could do with Photobooth). 

very hard to hold still in front of a laptop.

I'm done at the 8th repeat, because if I go to 12 like Kirsten wants, I will have knee socks. Well, maybe not quite...but they will be way too high up the leg. I did these on my trusty size 1 Addi lace tips, and they are HUGE. This is my first 'patterned' leg, but I'm a fairly tight knitter and did not expect such a loose fabric. Anyone else doing these? (Seriously, there's got to be one of the 1126 people in this group who visits here!!)

This pattern is addictive! I had to force myself to stop at 8 repeats, I probably could have/should have stopped at 6.

But I put them down, and as Saturday Night Live was still on and I was still wide awake, I cast on some Christmas knitting. Which I can't show you. Yet. But it's awesome.

...And...remember this?

'course you do, I only just showed it to you!

It winds up to look like this...

(I was a little worried. You know how you sometimes love, love, love how it looks in a hank, and then you wind it, and you're all...hmmmm, and then you swatch it, and.....um.....it's just not the same? I was worried.)

BUT I LOVE IT EVEN MORE!!!

Pardon the sun-glare, but it was important to get the color accurate.

I will be playing with this until the wee hours......