Since I last checked in, I ripped out the Marina Piccolo socks, I caught the flu, I had a birthday, and after much experimentation I came up with a sock that I’m happy with.
Here we have Friday Harbor (Ravelry link), from the book Knitting On The Road, in Mountain Colors Bearfoot, Juniper. I have never seen a sock make my leg look fat, but here we have it. A big, fat ol’ leg.
I think it’s the diamonds. The diamonds are death to the skinny leg.
Next up, we have Waterfall Socks in Fearless Fibers Glorious Green. I apologzie for the blindingly white leg. Apparently, I don’t tan even though I live in Hawaii. :-P
Basically, you can barely see the pattern. Only the more I look at it, the less I mind. I think it has a subtle charm to it. Still, I wasn’t completely happy with it and it got some rather lukewarm reviews at knit night. So these were relegated to the back burner on Thursday night. Who knows though, maybe I’ll bring them back out again.
After that, I didn’t touch anything sock related until Sunday night. That’s when I decided that I had recovered enough from the flu to pick up the sock needles once again.
Much hemming and hawing occurred over which pattern to use. I finally came across Queen of Cups and I thought that it’d be hard to mess these up in a solid color. So I picked out some solid Opal yarn and got started.
I’m not sure this is a spectacular sock, but I’m enjoying the knitting. In fact, I manged to finish the cuff and turn the heel.
As for my birthday, I was very pleased to spend the whole day watching football (Go Cowobys!) and baseball (Go Red Sox!). Also, my mother gave me one of the best presents I’ve ever received from her. A gift certificate for Isle Knits! I’ve been plotting on how to best spend it.
And even though this wasn’t exactly a birthday present, I was touched by the cute little magnet blogless Michelle gave me a couple of weeks ago. It’s a cap off one of the local drinks. I can’t remember which one. If one of the local gals reading this knows, please give a holler!
Isn’t it cute?
Another unintended birthday gift was a prize I won from Jenny Raye of Loves to Bike and Knit. I entered a contest to celebrate her blogiversary and was a lucky recipient of two great books.
So even though I’ve been feeling less then stellar, life is still pretty damned good. :-)
