knitabit

Sock it to me

It's been such a crazy, stressful week that sock knitting has been all I could manage, knitting-wise.

On the left you see the grey Regia socks; I did run out of yarn (as my postal scale so accurately predicted) with a bit of the foot and all of the toe left to go. I have another ball of Regia, but it's enough different to be unacceptable. So the search is on for a matching ball of Regia.

This happened midway through the ABC thing last night about JFK's assassination. Which I thought was very well done, by the way. I thought they did a good job of explaining why the American public wants to believe a conspiracy theory, no matter what the facts might show.

But I digress. I went to the yarn closet during a commercial break to see what was in my sock yarn stash. I had four options to choose from, three of which were yarns that I have used before. So I decided to get out the Sockotta, the one I've never used, and see what it's like. It is such a cheery, fun yarn; the little white strands don't separate away from the main strand - which is what I was afraid of. You wouldn't choose this yarn to showcase a stitch pattern, so I'm glad I'm going with my basic sock recipe.

The flu is hitting hard around here, and I'm afraid we're going to get hit here at my house. I've got a 12-year-old home from school for the second day today; the 13-year-old is coughing but not running a fever (at least yet) and insisted on going to school anyway; and I'm deeply suspicious about the 10-year-old, who was sneezing and blowing his nose this morning. I just hope we can all be well or at least non-contagious by Thanksgiving.

Comments

Sorry to hear that all of your kids are getting sick; but it may be a good thing to have them all sick at once so that you can get it over with in one event and be done with it for the whole winter...as for the socks; I sure hope you're able to find more of that yarn. Darn, I hate when that happens!

Posted by: Lisa at November 22, 2003 06:25 AM