Month: September 2024

Sweetpea and I are off on an adventure!

I leave early this afternoon for an 11-day trip to Greece.* It’s a National Geographic Expedition trip, “Wonders of an Ancient Empire”. Since I’ve been studying a lot about ancient Greece for the past two years, I jumped on this trip as soon as I saw it.

No, John isn’t going with me. He doesn’t get around well enough to do a tour like this. So he and Hank will be here to guard the yarn stash. John’s two kids and his sister will be here to help John out and to keep Hank in line.
Here’s my itinerary.

Stay tuned!

*Yes, there is a knitting project in that bag. Socks, and as per usual, enough sock yarn for me to remain in Greece for a couple months. You never know.

New socks

But first, it’s a very important day!

Hank is TWO years old! He’s getting lots of love from his people. He might get a birthday doggie donut from our local donut shop later. He’s already excited.

Now, those socks.

Aren’t those colorful? The yarn is an older Opal sock yarn color, named Kasimir the Daredevil. I entered it into my stash in 2008, so it’s doubtful that it’s still available.
The pattern is the same one I always use, Jerry rigged to fit my foot. I have found that I needed to decrease the number of stitches around a bit since I lost weight. Not a bad problem to have. I put a picot top on these, which is fun, and also keeps John from stealing them. He thinks picot tops aren’t “manly”.


And no, they don’t match. No, I don’t care.

And here are the new socks on the needles. Seattle Seahawks colors, to kick off the new NFL season.

That’s all for now.

58

That’s how many rows I have left on my current lace shawl in progress.

At this point, the public-side rows are taking close to an hour to knit. The yarn is very fine silk yarn, and it wants to jump off the needles any chance it gets.

The color is all off in that photo. This one is closer.

Of course, lace shawls don’t look like much until they are finished and blocked, so you can actually see the patterning.

And I had one little heart stopper moment when I set it down for about three-millionths of a second this morning. Hank has had his eye on that yarn ball all morning, and grabbed it and ran off, dragging the knitting behind him. Fortunately for him, no harm was done except for a bit of dog spit.

The pattern is the Elizabeth shawl, by Dee O’Keefe, and the yarn is silk lace, dyed by Lisa Souza.

Onward!