Still no photos

but I've finally finished the red knee socks for Son #1!

Next up: a couple of baby socks from Cat Bordhi's new book. Plus huge orders from Knitpicks and Blue Moon. (I told my husband I was either going to eat to deal with the stress, or shop. Bless him: he told me to shop. So I did.)

it's been a month already?

Yeah, about that.

Everyone else in the blog-o-sphere is blogging every day of this month, and I can't even manage to do one post in a month?

Let's just say that coaching volleyball was crazy, that I love my classes but they keep me busy. Now that volleyball season is done, i should have a little more time to knit and post.

Maybe even learn to take and post pictures? Now that would be radical!

Lost in sock-land

I'm up to the heel on my green cotton sock (knitted toe-up) and it's about 1/2 inch too short for my foot. Am I knitting tighter than I did on the first sock? Probably. Do I just keep going, ignoring the mismatched patterns? Probably.

Black bra, white T

Yeah, that's what I wear when I get sick.

If only I would remember to change before I walk the dog, and run into all my neighbors. They now think (they already thought, but have had it further confirmed) that I'm a fashion nut-case.

I've been sleeping every free minute, trying to hurry this cold along so I can return to health.

My green cotton sock is a great knitting project when suffering medicine head.

So tired I'm floating

Not really. But it feels that way: I'm moving very slowly and gravity seems to pull very effectively on dropped items, so that they plummet just out of my reach.

My red-socks-on-2-circs have been stalled at the calf shaping for almost a week. I added an extra purl stitch between each of the ribs, so that a "K3P1" became a "K3P2" on the back half. But this didn't seem to do enough. Last night, I had another idea: larger needles! So the back half of the sock is going onto a larger needle for a few rows, and then the front half will also go onto bigger needles. Thus, I will have

1) calf shaping
2) my size 2's free to knit my second green cotton sock!

Now if only I were sufficiently awake to have some confidence in this plan...

Now I Understand...

Now I understand why some bloggers miss an entire week at a time: it's called Real Life and it does get in the way.

For me: start of school. One class unexpectedly gets three more students. Coaching eats up tons of time. New students need coddling, attention, support.

No knitting time, either.

However, I did get a swift and ball-winder for my birthday!

Missing them

For the third time this year, a blogger I adored is shutting her doors and sealing all the windows... saying goodbye, in other words.

It's always a nasty shock to me when this happens. I guess I could understand why MedStudentWhoKnits needed to change things up when she ceased to be a med student. I'd always wondered how Miss Snark kept up her business while also posting thousands of words (intelligent, well-thought-out words) each day. And now, one of my daily favorites, GoldPoppy, has announced that she is through, at least for now.

I loved her posts. She always had fantastic photos. She sometimes shared poetry by authors I'd never discovered before, but now count as favorites. She could be outrageous, whimsical, and devout, all in the same paragraph. She shared a lot of herself in her daily blog entries - very brave, that woman.

I will miss her.