I'm a Jaywalker

I know I'm the last person in knitland to make this pattern, but boy is it fun!  I'm using Lorna's Laces "Carol Green Stripe," which Sarah got for me last year during my Surgery Rotation.  Remember those good old days?  Yeah, I didn't knit for about 2 months, which was the longest I've gone in several years!  When I really need to sleep, and the decision is to sleep or knit, I choose sleep.  

Anyway, this yarn is custom-dyed for Purl in NYC, and man do I LOVE it.  The pattern is super cute, and the yarn is also super cute, and together they are making a blindingly cute Jaywalker.  The stripes are almost perfect, with a tiny bit of color overlap that I'm really liking.  The folks at Purl have this concept in a plethora of colors, and I think I may be buying some more someday.  I brought the sock with me to a meeting at the Homeless Outreach and Advocacy Program (get it, HOAP...pronounced "Hope") and I got lots of compliments, plus found out that several of the folks there are knitters as well. 

I'm using my new Knitpicks Options DPNs, which I really like.  There's been a lot written about them already, so I'll just say a few things.  They are pointy, they are a little bit heavy, but I like that, and although these are labeled as "1", they are actually a tiny bit bigger than 1s, but smaller than 2s.  I also bought the interchangeable set, and was afraid that they would all be wrong, but the sizing for those is spot on.  My other DPNs from Knitpicks (0 and 2) are also a teeny bit big.  So now I have 0 1/2, 1 1/2 and 2 1/2 along with the regular sizes!