Well, don't you all know how to make a girl feel good?
Thank you everyone for such a wonderful bunch of comments!
CeCe really is a great knit, and I thoroughly recommend that you all run out and make one. Off you go. Well, you can wait until the end of the post.

Saturday sky!

Look! It's not a random blue square, there is cloud!
I even asked David last night if he would hire a skywriter for me so that I'd have an interesting Saturday Sky pic, but he wouldn't do it.

So knitting wise, now what?
Spring Blossoms is still on the go, but I haven't had much time to work on her this week. It's school holidays, so I never seem to get a quiet minute. I've even picked up Icarus once or twice this week. At this rate, it'll be done in 2010.
So, it's

I've fallen off the sock bandwagon of late, haven't I?
Let's go with the socktoberfest questions.

* When did you start making socks? Did you teach yourself or were you taught by a friend or relative? or in a class?

I taught myself, and my first pair were knit in January 2004. We went to Canberra for a few days in late December 2003, and I spotted a ball of Opal that had glittery stuff in it. I'd always sworn I'd never knit socks, but that yarn sucked me in. Now I'm enjoying an ongoing love affair with collecting sock yarn. Sometime I even knit it!

* What was your first pair? How have they "held up" over time?

Here they are!

Considering that I've never taken particular care with them, they've been worn a lot, and they get tossed into the washing machine, the dryer, walked around in without shoes, they're doing pretty well! Looking a little the worse for wear, but they're two and a half years old, and have not a single hole.

* What would you have done differently?

Um, nothing? These were knit toe-up with a short row heel. I used the toe from a free Elann pattern, and the rest of the sock was done with Wendy's generic toe up pattern.

* What yarns have you particularly enjoyed?

Lorna's Laces, Mountain Colors and Fleece Artist are the current favourites, but that is subject to change at any moment.

* Do you like to crochet your socks? or knit them on DPNs, 2 circulars, or using the Magic Loop method?

Crochet? Me? I can barely manage a single crochet edging! DPNS all the way, baby! I did try the 2 socks on 2 circs method, but i just couldn't get my head around it. I kept using the wrong needle, and had to keep ripping them out, so I put the socks in progress back onto DPNS.

* Which kind of heel do you prefer? (flap? or short-row?)

Flap heel, Sl1, K1 style.

* How many pairs have you made?

About 25, I think.

At first I only knit toe up socks, with short row heels. Now I seem to prefer cuff down with a flap heel, but either way is fine with me.
I've knit plain stockinette socks, rib socks, lace socks, toe up, cuff down, beaded socks and cabled socks.
However, yesterday I bought the Sole Solution software, so for Socktoberfest, maybe I'll try to design my own.

The second Fleece Artist sock is nearly done, only the toe to go. So the next pair of socks will be knit with this gorgeous yarn.

It's Lorna's Laces in Somerset, sent to me by the lovely Lindy. She actually sent it to me a few weeks back, and it's been sitting close by me where I can admire it. I got another wonderful gift this week from the delightful Donni.

It's a KnitPicks chart keeper! This is a nifty little invention, I love it. It's such a simple little thing, but it makes life so much easier. I have one tiny complaint, I wish it were a little bigger, but that's because I enlarge my charts so i can see them. It still does a wonderful job.
Now I'm off to knit my socks.
Enjoy your weekend.
Now go knit CeCe.