Well I’m still not 100% sure what’s going on, but I tried another sock out of the New Pathways book by Cat Bordhi and the sizing is way off!  It’s not a gauge thing since you plug whatever your gauge happens to be into a chart.  I know I’m reading it right this time so I’ll have to do some more research to figure out what is going on.  Fortunately, I sort of expected this so I was able to compensate to make it fit.  I am totally in love with the yarn!  Interlacements Tiny Toes…just YUM.

In other sock news, I finished the second pair of Baudelaire socks I started forever ago with  Schoeller + Stahl Fortissima Socka (which by the way I hate and will never use again).  Erica has claimed them and they will be shipped off to their new owner shortly.  I used US 1 needles and the row gauge was significantly off from the pattern which resulted in several frogging episodes before I finally got the length right.  That is one thing I have decided I hate about following a pattern when doing socks…the fit is never quite as good as when I just gauge it myself.

Fortunately for my next little project, gauge was completely irrelevant.  I knew I just had to make one of these as soon as I saw it.  Freakin’ adorable.

Finally, I may be MIA for a few days.  Remember how I briefly mentioned that I had a trip to the emergency room right before I left for AZ in January?  Well, I had an appointment on Friday to get my nose checked out and it turns out I’ll be having surgery TOMORROW.  Yep, that quick.  Turns out he had a cancellation so I’m in.  I think it’s a good thing though so I don’t’ have time to really think about it.  Wish me luck!