After a week of warm and sunny days which all ended in rain, spring storms, today we awoke to a day with grey edges. Dark grey, so far there has not been any rain, but there is blustery wind, the kind that dries washing on the line in half an hour, and also tangles it up so it is wound around and around the line and takes more than half an hour to untangle it. There has only one project knit on this week, the Spiral Bound sock ... somehow that was all I wanted to knit on. I tried to knit something with a chart one night ....... but I was too distracted by what was on tv and ended up frogging a round or two and reverting to simpler
knitting. And I'm waiting to hear if I'm teaching knit things.
Given this sock has been my main knit project it has grown quite quickly, from a bare toe to well past the heel. Off the foot this sock seems to have a twisty life of its own, the heel and sections between the spirals collapse and hide away - giving the sock a rather odd shape.
On the foot the sock looks much much cleaner, there are four spiral 'mock-cables' that rotate around the sock ....
...with one snaking up the middle of the heel before coordinating with the others and taking its turn as part of the quad of spirals winding up the leg. Of course when something works out as well as this visually ... it seems almost wrong to stop knitting it. I am not sure if these socks are for me, or Bear or (yulp) eldest cub. He now has feet only one size smaller than me (at eleven!), and has begun raiding my sock drawer for sports socks when he runs out. He has plenty of socks, but being a pre-teen they don't always make the trip from the worn-pile in the corner of his bedroom to the laundry. And of course if they don't get to the laundry .. they almost never come back washed, dry, and matched.
Friday I had a email letting me know that the the group deciding on who would be selected to teach at HandMade 2011 would be making their decision soon. I put in a proposal, two actually .. and had almost forgotten with all the end of year things to sort at work. The email said they will let me know Friday the 15th of November ... which is this week! In the meanwhile - even if I'm not teaching, there will be lots of wonderful things on offer, so bookmark it in your diary 4-6 June 2011- Wellington (New Zealand).
take care - I have to go and spend time untangling more dry washing on the line and bring it in, and make the chilli con carne for dinner tonight - Yum (the red beans are in the slow cooker !).
na Stella
knitting. And I'm waiting to hear if I'm teaching knit things.
Given this sock has been my main knit project it has grown quite quickly, from a bare toe to well past the heel. Off the foot this sock seems to have a twisty life of its own, the heel and sections between the spirals collapse and hide away - giving the sock a rather odd shape.
On the foot the sock looks much much cleaner, there are four spiral 'mock-cables' that rotate around the sock ....
...with one snaking up the middle of the heel before coordinating with the others and taking its turn as part of the quad of spirals winding up the leg. Of course when something works out as well as this visually ... it seems almost wrong to stop knitting it. I am not sure if these socks are for me, or Bear or (yulp) eldest cub. He now has feet only one size smaller than me (at eleven!), and has begun raiding my sock drawer for sports socks when he runs out. He has plenty of socks, but being a pre-teen they don't always make the trip from the worn-pile in the corner of his bedroom to the laundry. And of course if they don't get to the laundry .. they almost never come back washed, dry, and matched.
Friday I had a email letting me know that the the group deciding on who would be selected to teach at HandMade 2011 would be making their decision soon. I put in a proposal, two actually .. and had almost forgotten with all the end of year things to sort at work. The email said they will let me know Friday the 15th of November ... which is this week! In the meanwhile - even if I'm not teaching, there will be lots of wonderful things on offer, so bookmark it in your diary 4-6 June 2011- Wellington (New Zealand).
take care - I have to go and spend time untangling more dry washing on the line and bring it in, and make the chilli con carne for dinner tonight - Yum (the red beans are in the slow cooker !).
na Stella
3 comments:
Very good.
The socks look intriguing. I like the way your knitting is posed on what looks like a bread board....
Ooh, double yum! Wish I were there for dinner :) And I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for good news from the workshop - they'd be silly not to take you, but let us know when you hear :) The sock is looking great. I well remember when Tess took over my shoes (on our trip to NZ, in fact), and she now wears shoes nearly three sizes larger than mine, and is an inch or more taller (can you believe?). This at 12. Goodness knows what the teenage years will bring!
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