Project Spectrum is a very neat ongoing online crafting project  that Lolly began on her blog: Project Spectrum
There’s a Flickr group and a Ravelry group, too.
It’s all about creativity and being inspired by specific ‘triggers’.  The leaping off points for May and June are the following:

EAST (May/June)
Color: Yellow
Material: Wood
Season: Spring
Element: Air
We have had the longest winter ever, and a late and cold and miserable springtime.
This means that we are sadly lacking flowers outside right now.
Bless the sturdy little dandelion that braved the cold and popped up outside my window.
In order to get flowers, I have to make them myself.
Here’s a …read more

It’s so easy to add a little touch of springtime to your sockies! So…. why have plain jane socks?
You can add a little embellishment to socks that you have knitted or crocheted,
like these ones that I just finished knitting.
Or, you can dress up purchased socks by stitching on purchased or crocheted or tatted
lace.
I tatted super simple flowers onto these socks…. it took 4 attempts to get the sock
edging right.  I found that I liked it best when I cut the self striping yarn into colorways
that made sense for the flowers.
The flowers are rings of 3 ds, p, 3 ds, p, …read more

One of the members of the Tatta-tat-tatters tatting group on Ravelry mentioned that she tatted edgings onto her daughter’s socks.
I was immediately inspired!
I have sewn lace edging to socks, but never tatted it on.
Last fall, when I was teaching workshops in Portland at the Knit and crochet conference, the goodie bag had sock yarn in it. So, I started these socks, and have picked away at them on and off all winter.
I finally finished them the other day, so now….
I get to have fun with them!
I am doing a super simple tatted flower edging on them, and I am really …read more

Do you take part in sock clubs, such as the Rockin’ Sock Club or Sock of the Month?
Generally, you receive a pattern and yarn each month for a specific pair of socks. Some clubs require you to sign up for the year, while others go on a month-to-month plan.
I’ve yet to take part in any of these clubs, mainly because I wonder what happens if you don’t like the designated pattern that month. I love knitting socks, but I’m picky about patterns in general.
Still, I think it’s a good way to:
1. Get your sock knitting in: After paying club dues and getting the yarn and …read more

My best friend just gave me the neatest little gadget.
‘DP Wip Tubes’.
‘whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?’
They’re a simple and oh so  clever gadget for adding happiness to sock knitter’s lives.
They are interlocking notched tubes that you slip over your dp needles. They  keep your sock from accidentally womitting it’s stitches.  Bliss.
Here’s a link for them: Here it is:
nancys knit knacks
I am delighted with mine, as I take my sock knitting with me wherever I go.  Someone is very clever!
Thumgbs and dp’s up on this one!

No, they don’t have long curly locks on them, and yes, we know that ‘real’ hobbits don’t wear socks….
these socks are a painterly homage to the 50th anniversary cover of the Hobbit
Hobbit Socks 

Oh man!
I can’t believe how long it took me to knit this pair of socks!
I am calling them ‘the forever socks’

That’s how long it took to knit them.
Just plain ole, ‘let your yarn make your pattern’ socks for my darlin’. Because I loves him.
  And, everybody knows that handknitted socks beat the bejabbers off store bought ones, so of course, you want your beloved to wear sockies that you made for him with your own little paws, right?
Well….. life sometimes gets in the way of getting sockies done.  People who can ACTUALLY count their unfinished projects astonish me. I …read more