It feels good to be home, though we had a great time on the road! Seeing my brother and new sister-in-law get married was of course the highlight of the trip, but any pictures from that event will have to wait until I'm a little less tired and more able to go through them all.
I mentioned I was going to start the Ripple and Weave socks from the new (Fall 2006) Vogue Knitting, right? I got started on those after finishing up the Pomatomi (again, pics later). I started happily knitting away and was a little confused by the chart but kept right on knitting. About 8 rows into the chart I realized it just wasn't right. The chart was wrong! I'm sure Janice won't be surprised, she's had some issues with their patterns before. I think this mistake is a) fairly easy to make and b) fairly noticeable once you actually know what's supposed to be going on, or even if you think about it before knitting. Of course, I neither knew what was going on nor really looked over the chart before knitting, so I had a problem. Anyway, love the socks, but check VK online for any errata before starting their patterns. If you do the Meg Swansen socks from this issue, the pattern was THE WRONG PATTERN, so that would have been a lot worse. Now that one I noticed within 2 lines of reading the pattern. Anyway, row 3 of the chart for pattern 10 should be (from R to L): p2tog, ktbl, p, ktbl, p, ktbl, p, ktbl, yo, ktbl, yo, p, ktbl (basically, the yarnovers are one too far to the right in the chart).
And here are the socks now:
Ok, I like my socks short, so I've already started the heel.
Other highlights of the trip to be fleshed out more fully later were:
1) Lassen Volcanic National Park
2) Oregon wine country
3) Visiting with Gene in Eugene!
4) The Sundial Bridge in Redding, CA
I am obsessed now with this bridge. This is not the really bridge-y part of the bridge, but those cables are holding the bridge up, yo. I have so many pictures of this bridge, it is absurd. The bridge at night was also awesome. That's right, we went twice.
Tomorrow I'll announce the winner of the contest and let that person know by email as well! Thanks for all of the entries, I had a great time checking in on them when I could from the road!
I have a couple of good friends from Redding and I can't believe I've never seen that bridge! But have you ever been to Shasta Caverns? Not quite as exciting, I know ... Glad you're back!
Posted by: Elspeth at August 22, 2006 2:21 AM*waves* welcome back Kristi! Sounds like you had a nice trip! I USED to have friends in Redding, but they sold their house and bought one twice as big and out of state for less than what they got out of the sale of their old house ;-)
Posted by: Pink Dandelion at August 22, 2006 6:50 AMWelcome back!
I thought that vogue pattern was off. I just ripped back a few rows and have been avoiding it. Thanks for posting the fix :) The chart looked pretty and all, but I knew there was some funky chicken messing with it, just didn't have enough knitting time to go fiddle.
That bridge is VERY cool! I probably would have gone back again too. :)
Posted by: Abigail at August 22, 2006 9:04 PM