Ivan demonstrated how to lay back and take a snooze.


I finished the Jared Flood scarf with the Noro Silk Garden yarn. I could have gone on one more color change but it seemed so long already and I felt unsure about finding off so it's done. It's for Zach to use next winter. Living in Florida, he didn't have a scarf but it got realllly cold here.




I just wanted to add this picture of the first socks I ever made when they were new. A picture of how they look now is on the March 10 entry.

I've always loved rain. When I moved to Florida, it rained every afternoon about 4:00. Sadly, the climate changed. Now, whenever it rains, I run outside and take the same picture which always looks the same and is not so interesting. But I keep doing it and here's today's version.
I started Cookie A's Monkey Socks but messed it up quickly and started over with new yarn. I have made it all way through one repeat and just everyone else who knits this sock, I think it is very fun and very well written. Cookie A is some kind of cute sock genius.The yarn is a Trekking bamboo blend.
The ugliest socks I have ever made went to a honey-haired honey in snowy Maine who continues to say she loves them. I felt guilty and decided to make her pretty socks. Here's one I just completed It's Trekking XXL is one of their "jean" colors.

Labels: Cookie A, monkey socks, rain, Trekking XXL

First, I can't find my camera so I can't document this headache. I am simply knitting a simple sock with Trekking XXL yarn and nothing should go wrong. I was almost to the end of the toe when a little stitch that had not been knit into starting mocking me. I kept knitting thinking it would hide and leave me alone but it stuck out its little yarn tongue as I went row after row around. If the socks were for me, I might have just basted it down but they are not so I went back to fix it. I reknit the toe once, twice, three times, screwed up the kitchener, cut off the end of the toe, took out stitches one-by-one til it was right and am reknitting again.

I am intending to knit the monkey sock but really if I can not even do a toe, how am I going to make lace?

Here is the fabulous Jared Flood scarf that I'm making
and two of my favorite things: my son and some yarn. Isn't he wonderful to hold it for me?

Labels: Jared Flood, kitchener, Trekking XXL

My wonderful son came home on Spring Break wearing the very first socks I ever made. I have offered to throw them away before but he's said, "Where else am I going to get short wool socks?" I clearly didn't know what I was doing, was afraid I didn't have enough yarn (Fleece Artists merino) but wanted my first socks to be for him. Awwww.

He was taking a picture of me and the bad cat, Empy, when I said I must either look cute in the picture or not be in it. So Empy hid my face. Good bad cat.



This is Ivan, my beautiful Siberian sweet cat sitting in the window behind a shredded screen. Guess who shredded it?? Not Ivan. No.


Zach shared this picture with me. He took it outside his math building because the bicycles were arranged in a bike-rainbow. Lovely!

Wait a minute! Without realizing it, I finished another pair for the pile. I'm one to lose labels and not look back, but I have more of this yarn and can read that the dark part is Fortissima Socka and the heels/toes are .. well, also Fortissima Socka. I think they would've liked size 3 needles but I used smaller and the socks are thick and warm.

Labels: Fortissima socks Socka

I started these socks from Opal Petticoat quite a while ago. I was making them for Michelle, my son's girlfriend at the time, but she has disappeared from my life and so I didn't finish them. Not too long ago, I took them to my Saturday knitting group to work on them, told this story and my lovely friend Pat offered to buy them for her daughter if I didn't have a plan for them. Pat bought them and, to my delight, kept them for herself.

Michelle, if you're reading this, I miss you.

Labels: Opal Petticoat socks

I finished these socks last night and posed them with fresh strawberries from Plant City, Florida! The berries are sweet and on sale at three lbs. for $5. Yum and cheap.

So this is pair three of my marathon. I hope to have six pair finished in time to mail for the birthday but he'll be home for Spring Break one of those weeks and I can't work on them then.

Speaking of surprises, Harry Shearer was paying tribute to Paul Harvey on his NPR show Le Show. He played several bits from Harvey's shows over the years including a bit about a woman who went into a shop to buy a coat for her dog. The salesperson told the woman that if she'd measure the dog, they'd make a coat, but the woman replied, "I can't do that! I want it to be a surprise!" Then we heard Harvey laughing for minutes and unable to read anymore news.