I love how a sock looks just after working the short row heel.   So  Pretty.  The precise angles of the  needles please me for some obscure reason.  Anyway I have had a fairly non~knit week.  Since I did the round up and decided to concentrate on these socks to clear out my small project bowl I cleaned house and slept.  Until Monday when I picked up the socks, finished the first, started the second and now~ just now~ I have turned the heel on the second sock.  I expect to be done with these by the end of this week since I am looking forward to wearing them.  It was all of 10 degrees today!  Of course I  have reached my goal of finishing up with the colorwork area and have stashed my 4 nearly full balls of contrast colors.  Huzzah!  I am still on the first ball of Main Color but I doubt anybody could get away with less than the two called for in pattern.

 

  These socks are very short and the band you see in the above picture encircles the ankle like a bracelet.  One of the teachers at Nece’s school thought it looked like a tattoo.  Speaking of school Nece will be going to preschool 2 half days starting next week.  I have no idea what I will do with myself during the time.  Perhaps I will hang out there to garner oohs and aahs.  Seriously if you do not KIP you should.

 

  Knitting is such a solitary task that sometimes it is difficult to appreciate the value of handknitting.  Oh sure there is the tactile and creative and meditative benefits but ...... well today Zoe was talking to a friend of hers on the phone and I overheard her saying oh  my mom doesn’t work she just sits around and knits all the time.  I mean she does knit for work but its not like they care if she does it or not so she can work when she feels like it blah blah blah.  Part of me was mortified at her description of what I do but I have faced the fact, several years ago, that people generally do not value knitting.  I cannot begin to tell you how often people’s eyes have glassed over when I say I knit.  For Work.  I would go to these parties for the hubster and get dismissed as being somebody not worth talking to.  I guess those things are a big ol networking forum and knowing somebody who knits isn’t special.  

 

  KIPing at a school, however, has taught me that some people are impressed by, even if they do not necessarily value, knitting.  This week this gal who normally sits there reading gave me a look.  You know the kind~ kinda semi amused and superior.  At least that is what I thought.  I defensively said ‘what.’  She shook her head and said that is so complicated.  Always on the lookout for knit enabling I quickly responded that it wasn’t really difficult although I appreciated people who thought so and would be happy to teach her.  She told me she had tried before and it was too hard which is too bad.  I am sure my facial contortions as I concentrated on the two color cast on followed by twined braid didn’t do anything to change her mind.  Figures I would be working on something that has me wrinkling my nose, furrowing my brow, and biting my lip at the time.  I guess there is a downside to KIPing~ it is not for the vain.

 

yarny days and knitterly evenings to all, Elka