I'm a Monkey!!!

Quick, name that tune. (no really, I am curious to see who knows their lyrics)

I finished my red monkey socks! Yeah!

I am really pleased with the way they turned out. I used Claudia Hand painted yarn in the lipstick colorway, and I think it may have surpassed the Dream in Color Smooshy as my favorite sock yarn. It is soft and cuddly and super fun to knit with. The yardage was perfect too.

At the end, I only had this much yarn left over. I think that is the least amount of yarn I have ever had left.

This weekend I will work on the wedding afghan and start my next pair of socks. They will by my 6th and final pair for SAM5. I don't think I will do SAM6, not because its not fun and motivating, but because I want to work on some other projects for a little while. I will go back to socks in a couple of months, after I have done a few other things.

In other news, I got a laptop. It is a green Dell and I love it. It is so nice to not have to be downstairs to be online. And it came with Vista, so I get to play the new and improved games.

If it is nice out this weekend I hope to get out somewhere to take some pictures of neat stuff. I have film that may be going bad, so I need to use it up. Yes, I said film. I miss using my film camera. Don't get me wrong, my digital point and shoot is great, but there is just something about a big (relatively) camera that just feels good. And my SLR is film. James can use the outing to get re-acquainted with his digital SLR (which he graciously used to take the above picture of my socks). I'll let you know how it goes.