The daily pork report has moved into the living room. This guy is a very recent acquisition – he is a shooting range target and is made of cast iron. Last month I was at an antique show and there he was. It is the original paint and in the second picture you can see the dents made from the shots. Initially I thought he was more of a target in a carnival type game – something that would use bb guns. Boar inspected him and has informed me that some of those dents are made from a small calibre gun. Boar knows these things from his days spent on his high school’s rifle team.And here is a sock progress shot. So far so good. As you can see I am knitting these on two circulars rather than the dpn’s the pattern calls for. This required only one adaptation which I got straight from Cara who got it straight from Cookie, the designer. When knitting these on two circs, you may encounter the direction to do a yarn over right at the beginning of a needle. Don’t do the yarn over in the traiditonal way – this will make the holes a bit too big. Simply pick up the yarn over on your next round and that will leave you with a more attractive pattern. The sock does appear alarmingly narrow although it is quite stretchy, so my cankles have hope!

When I got home from work yesterday, there was a package bonanza on my porch! not one, but two boxes waiting for me. The first package was from Rachel (who doesn’t have a blog yet and we wonder what is taking so long?!) Rachel lives in Arizona and sent along a Javelina and yarn. If you click on that link you will read that the javelina is native to that area but is not officially consider part of the pig family. Well, I reject this. If it looks like a pig, it’s a pig! And this is one good looking pig; fierce yet adorable. The yarn is also apporpriately named sand and sun. Thank you so much Rachel!

My other gift is from Vicki. She sent it in honor of our quit smoking anniversary. Click on that second link and read the author inscription. How fabulous is she?! I haven’t started reading it yet, but the pictures are wonderful – love the smile on that girl’s face! Thank you so much Vicki!

so how do you like that? the perfect blog post – some pigs, some yarn and I didn’t have to do anything more than pick up packages on the front porch. it’s the sweet life I tell ya!

And they said it couldn’t be done; that I couldn’t spend an evening chatting and whooping it up with long lost girlfriends while simultaneously drinking and knitting Pomatomus socks. My progress is not an indication that these long lost girlfriends are boring but points toward my mad skillz with the needles and also my hollow leg.
Probably it’s really more about my hollow leg than anything else.

how about a little pork?

foyer pig wearing the sleigh bells that I forgot to put away from Christmas

On the left is a not so great picture of my square. I have already sent the square off into the world, otherwise I would take another picture. This is handspun and navajo plyed and the stitch pattern is fishbone lace.

The picture on the right is the beginnings of Pomatomus socks. I cast on for these last night. I was going to knit a pair of Retro Rib, but after I got about two inches into those, I thought I would try something new. So the yarn came off the needles and was turned into this. Speaking of the yarn – I am using Wildfoote. I shall withhold my opinion until I have more of a knitted sample to judge. The problem is that during the knitting process, I like a thicker sock yarn, something along the lines of Socks that Rock or Cherry Tree Hill. It feels better in my hands and makes the knitting that much more enjoyable. For wearing purposes however, I often prefer my Trekking socks since they fit more comfortably inside my shoes. I am betting the Wildfoote will fall into this category. Such a conundrum!
Tomorrow I am traveling to the Poconos. I shall be hanging out with a group of friends from high school. Socks make the perfect traveling project. I hope this pattern will be ok for simultaneous knitting and visiting.

The daily pork report is coming to you from the foyer. The big brick wall in the foyer is in fact the back of the fireplace in the living room. I am posting two pictures since yesterday was skipped over and I know what a crushing disappointment that must have been for you both. ; )