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Socks & News & What-Not

Hotlinked from our Joan

Charade socks in the Hot Flash colorway of STR but don't.  Shorty length.  Knit toe-up with CCSRs for toes and heels.  Magic looped with a sewn bind-off.  Fabulous mindless knitting.

Yes, again...

Charade ribbed.  Again with the Cookie Cuter Short Row toes and heels.  Still with the magic loopage, knitting toe-up and that sewn bind-off.

Don't those photos look like she's taking a photo break from doing some kind of abs workout on the floor?  Or is that just how my mind works these days?

Yeah, don't answer that...

I've been told it's Mega May.

Don't get me wrong.  I appreciate it when someone I know I can trust comes along and tells me what we're doing.  I so really know anymore...

Not only am I busy with my Mega May wedding lace project, but I'm also busy writing things that won't get posted here.  Blog posts for someone who is moving this week.  Rules and what-not for the Summer of Socks people.  I'm hoping to give a timeline this week but we'll see...

Also running another thing this month that's taking more brain-power than I thought it would when I started.  Isn't that always the way?  Still... we're almost to the halfway point, so it's too late to quit (plus I'm not a quitter) and it's too late to flake out.  I'm a bit flaky but some high quality exfoliating would fix that.  ;^)

Dealing with a case of wanting what I can't have.  I knit lace while lusting after socks.  By the time I am done with the lace and expected to be knitting socks, I will be in love with my spinning wheel again.  At least, I know and understand what's happening, right?

Right?!

Top That, Paleface!

I was emailing the other day with a dear friend and the topic of us being pale came up.   I sent the above photo because really who's more pale than that and still alive?  *L*

 

The yarn is Cherry Tree Hill and the colorway is something from the PINK! family.  I knit them for our Joan with the usual CCSRs while magic looping toe-up.  The pattern is mine but it's not like it would be hard to figure out.  Our Ruth said flounce, and, honey, that's what I did!

Thinking about faking my own death because wedding lace knitting is going very slowly right now, and got me thinking about these socks.  Since it's Sunday and I have a pair to show you, here we are!

Also remember that Summer is coming and we're going it again this year over at The Summer of Socks group on the Ravelry machine.  Heaven help me...

Struggling to Balance

Watched The Rachel Maddow Show last night.  Always love that Rachel.  (Would totally fight our Joan for her if I had to.  I just want to make Rachel laugh.  I'm just sayin'...)  Very good show, as always.  One segment hit a nerve and I was thrilled to see the guest for that segment and to hear what she had to say.  

While always comforted when people discuss race in a way that I agree with, shocking right?  It left me annoyed by what some people think is acceptable and what some people say without realizing why it's offensive.  

Making matters worse is the fact that in the larger sense I have a dog in the fight.  Or I am a dog in that fight.  I guess it depends on how you look it...

All this is my way of saying that I'm not real happy right now and don't really want to go into it in public.  It's a shame that more people aren't more careful about who they share their opinions with on certain topics, but that's a whole other blog post.  ;^)

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Unconscious Mutterings

1. Familiar ::  Voice
2. Style ::  Personal
3. More than ::  A Mouthful
4. Glistening :: /ahem
5. Obstruction ::  Political
6. Orifice ::  Large
7. Hugely ::  Disappointed
8. Tempest ::  Teapot
9. Sauce ::  Gander
10. Herbs ::  de Provence

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It was nearly "herb garden" but I couldn't cheat by killing the "S" in herbs.  Besides there's only one person in the world who would get it if I had said herb garden and he doesn't need me pulling my ear to send him messages in my blog.

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The Summer of Socks is over for another year.  I wasn't totally sure I was going to make to the end of this one.  I can't tell you how many times I wanted to tell my admins I was done, but I couldn't do that because I had agreed to do the job.  Ya know?

Several members of the group had trouble understanding and following the rules for the STUFF! part of the along.  If you were there for the prizes, you had to follow the rules.  It was a long fucking summer of telling the same people the same things over and over and fucking over again.

Every year, there's something or someone.  This year, it never seemed to stop or get better.  I guess I'll spend the winter trying to figure out how to better deal with it.  I guess...

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In other news, I continue to want things I cannot have, think about things I will never get and long for things I have no business pondering... never mind longing for.

Yeah, business as usual with a healthy serving of being the protective creature I was born to be.  I guess that means everything will work out in the fullness of time...

I'm just tired of waiting, ya know?

Ding Dong!

Sock Love!

The Summer of Socks is Dead!

Okay... just for the year, but I'll take it.  It's been a long weird summer and I am looking forward to taking a break from socks and those people.  However, there are still socks to be shown and it is Sunday...

Charade.  Yes, again.

Yarn dyed by the lovely and talented Squishy.

Knit toe-up with CCSR toes and heels.  Worked using Magic Loop with a sewn bind off.  Like all y'all don't know that already.  Love the yarn, the dyeing and how it knit up.

In other news, passionately hate gmail and their mothership, the Googles, right now.  I miss having a working email account that doesn't annoy me.  I swear, it was NEVER this bad when we were in beta.  Not even that time everything went down and everyone lost their shit.

In other other news, am so loving the kids at Typepad.  Shocking, right?  Recently, the spammers have  found this blog.  Thanks to the kids at Typepad, I don't have to do much to keep the spam off the blog.  A tiny percent of the crap gets through.  Even then, it's super simple to remove.

Not sure where the weekend is going but I think there was laundry and a tragic lack of naps.

So sad...

Hope your Sunday is peaceful and lovely.

Maybe this would go faster if you weren't talking so loud

In grade school, one of my teachers described me as fickle.  

He had no idea how right he was...

I think they really are my favorite socks.  

While not a perfect match, they are so close and so good.  What's not to love?

The yarn is some kind of Opal sock yarn.  Clearly, self-patterning and fabulous.

Cookie Cutter Short Rows for toes and heels.  Knit toe up, of course.  Magic Loop.  Sewn cast off.  Simple, easy and wonderful.

Who doesn't love that?  ;^)