Monday, a doctors appointment and an outing.
Tuesday, laundry (touch up ironing and
getting everything put away) and a long (2 mile) walk
Wednesday, putzing around not doing
much of anything—got some yarn made into center pull balls, but
that's about it.(Which yarn? The new fashion toe yarn, and the
nectarine color way yarn)
Thursday, cleaned out an explosion in
the microwave, polished up the tea kettle, and washed the kitchen
waste can and did a whole bunch of other cleaning chores.
Does it seem like I want to do anything
but work on my socks? Yeah. But last night, I took them up
again--(good grief! It's the 17 of February and this are January
socks!)
Now one sock (the back seam sewn one)
has a completed gusset, and the other socks has almost a dozen rows of the gusset done. Today I should finish up the second sock gusset, get the two
socks back together on 2 needles. And then, it's a race to the toe.
The foot is a solid black—a bit dreary to knit, but the gussets are
long, so a good part of the foot has been done, and once I finish the
second socks gussets, it won't be long till they are (finally!) done.
I am itching to try out a new way to
hand paint yarn—basically, using a Wilton Paste type food coloring
and “breaking” the colors-- the two partial skeins of white left
over from these socks are candidates for this—So I have second
small incentive to finish up the gussets.
I actually plan to photograph and
document my process/progress—by Monday at the latest, you should be
able to see the results.
I still haven't blocked my leafy vest
–and this winter is some what of a bust for warm woollies.
Yesterday, it was near 50°--(circa 10°C) raining, but still
very mild. Its supposed to get colder this weekend, but just to
“normal”-40°/4.4°. Yes, cold weather persist till mid
March, (when snow is not unknown, or even uncommon) but all in all,
it's been a mild winter.
(I have plateaued and haven't lost any
weight in days now. But, I haven't back slide, either—so its not
all bad. I think I need to get more exercise. I keep saying that,
but I haven't yet followed through!)
