Cruisin…
I have been knitting. Just don’t really have anything cool to share. I’m on … you know … SOCK NUMBER TWO and, let’s face it we’ve already seen it…down there on MP’s foot. I guess it does look a little different - because I don’t go to the trouble of looking for the right part of the yarn to start sock number two from to make certain that all the stripes are going to land in the same place as the previous sock. I leave that sort of thing to a miracle or two. I have actually matched plaids and checks on dresses by accident before - so I’m expecting knitting to happen that way too. I am nearly to the heel flap now. I think I have about another half-inch of the leg to do before I start the flap. How I finally got inspired to get the second sock started was: I was working on this, things were going along swimmingly, and then I got to a part where I have to THINK. Uuugh…OK…counting is fine, but THINKING? Really not up to that right now. My poor brain is too fried to actually think, due mostly to the Summer from YouKnowWhere and the psycho weather we’ve had. So…my hands were itching for needles, the project I had been working on was now requiring BRAIN FUNCTION, and there sat that nice completed sock without a mate, and my poor tired brain thought “hey…I know! let’s knit that other completely brainless exercise in tube-knitting sock!” OK…you call it what you want…I call it “inspiration.” That’s about the extent of my inspired moments until things start cooling off for more than a morning around here. Really though, I’m saving my “Lucy” yarn for sort of ‘yarn dessert.’ I’m picking out a pattern for it, from this book:
and as soon as I’m to the finish line on these other two projects, I’m casting on Lucy and a shawl that I’ve been planning. Well…you know…assuming that the weather has regained it’s sanity and my brain can function once again.
