midgeling: life in a shoe.

Guess what this is? (besides a bad photo taken on my phone) This is me and my 5 year old daughter Kassie. I am helping Kassie hold the needle steady and she is mumbling "Poke, wrap, wheee!" It was the only little poem thingy I could think of that Kassie could remember to help her keep track of what she was supposed to do. She actually caught on pretty quick. I bought her a pair of kid sized US8 needles and gave her an old ball of leftover Red Heart in bright red. She's knitting a scarf for her teddy bear.

In other kid knitting news, Harley'sfriend Claire asked me to teach her to knit. So I found an old pair of bamboo circs and skein of something that looks like vintage avocado colored Patons Decor. I cast on sts and knit one row to start her out. Here she is after several rows. she has some nice, lacy yarn over holes, but it looks good!

In other less fun knitting news, I decided That I am going to frog the socks back to the toe. Why? Well first look at how far I got - just past the ankle.

Okay, now Why do I want to frog them? Well, no matter how now hard I try, these funky "toe eyeballs" (as Nathan called them ) are really bugging the crap out of me. I can't even convince myself that they are a design element. I wanted the arrow things to point down toward my toes, but if I had given this pattern more thought, I would have realized that the biasing would make that bump of knit fabric have to go somewhere. If not toward the cuff to form a scalloped edge, then toward the toe area to form "toe eyeballs."

Eh, oh well. Live and learn.