Endless Knots

I finally finished the Endless Knot Socks! Yeah! They are cute, sort of. They are a little tight where the pattern is. The second one is a little looser, because I had the first one to practice on. What matters, though, is that my daughter loves them. She thought they were a little scratchy. Since the Felici yarn seems to get softer with every washing, she told me to wash them, so these would get softer, too. Haha, little does she know that these are wool! And, if you have ever had the joy of receiving a pair of socks my sister made (she is the sock queen, old style), you know the feel of wool socks!

So, after I finished the socks last night, I found myself without a project I wanted to work on.

Since I could not continue with my daughter's shrug until she came back home, and I could measure her back, and since I didn't feel like working on the "ugh" project (more on that some other time), I started my first tote bag. I have this Knit Picks "Cotlin" yarn I got a while ago, and I was looking what to do with it, and I thought a tote bag would be perfect. And since they kind of look as if they are made from lots of knots, I thought this would be a good next step for me :).

I found Elisa's Nest Tote published in "the purl bee" and really liked it. Mine is going to be lime green. I was surprised at how easily I grasped the pattern. I have never made a tote before, and I am curious to see how sturdy they are hand-knit. If I like how this one comes out, I have two more skeins of "Cotlin" in two other colors. I can mass-produce them and stash them away as gifts, maybe.

I took my tote project on the bus today (I take the bus to work every day). But the pattern requires me to pay quite a bit of attention, which I don't like to do on the bus. I get car-sick when I read on the bus or have to pay too much attention to what I am doing. That's why I usually just listen to music. It's just lately that I have had the urge to bring something to knit. But it has to be an easy pattern, where I can knit mostly without looking down. Maybe as I get more and more comfortable with the pattern, I don't have to look as much.

Well, that's it for today. Back to my tote...