I'm an idiot, bloglines

Meet the eye strain sock. 

He has been finished since I took that photo Sunday morning, and his partner has been started.  Please note the lovely cat hair fuzzem just under the loose DPN.  /sigh

The yarn is Online Supersocke Highland Color.  It's a two ply super wash wool and nylon yarn.  One ply is black and one ply is variegated shades of pinks and lilac.  Very me. 

We'll see if I can make the second sock the same size as the first one.  Ya see, every time I try to count stitches to see how many rows I need to do in the two by two rib for the cuff, my eyes/brain start to hurt.  I can't make out the stitches well enough to count rows.  And, yes, I was standing in the sun, thank you very much.  So I'm faking it for sock #2.  Since they are for me, I'm figuring it will be okay no matter how it shakes out.

The idiot part...

I will spare ya'll the story on how I got there, and just offer up the punchline.  "Bisexual" is not a term that should be applied to the unisex restroom.  Even if everyone agrees that it is... because it's not.

Don't ask.

Just be grateful that you're not here because it's just weird here.

On the upside, the yarn I've been waiting for finally arrived.  I can finish the shawl for my mother now, which is a good thing because her birthday is in a couple/few weeks.  I still think it looks like dryer lint spun into lace weight, but that's fine.  She wanted neutral and what's more neutral than dryer lint?

Yeah, still going to hell...

Tomorrow... The socks I have to make next.

Comments

[AuntieAnn]

Mmm, I do like those yarns with one ply black. I really liked some yarn I used last year for BIL socks -- 1 ply black, 1 play dark red or maroon. Must get me some.

[Cat]

I see we like the same color schemes. I think they are really gorgeous.

Hugs!!!

[Angie]

If you can see cat fuzz in that photo (which I can't)-- you ought to be able to count rows, I think.

I also think you are leaving out the interesting part of the bathroom story...well, maybe... :-) Hope tomorrow is a fun day.

[Devorah]

Inquiring minds need to know about the bathroom! As for the dryer lint ... you know that it comes in different colors, don't you? My mother used to collect dryer lint.

[Suz]

Dryer lint? Ok. If you say so! LOL!

Um, so i'm taking it that you didn't use a row counter as you were knitting that sock?

*ducking*

[Stacey]

OPTION 3!?!??!?!

And you say you live a boring life! I don't believe you at all anymore. There's something about pink and black that is always... right. Maybe it's a flashback to my dream of being a Pink Lady.

[Julie]

Love the sock!

I want to know the rest of the bathroom story; I like weird :)

[Debby]

What cat hair? (ignoring tumbleweeds on my own floor...)

I am sorry about your Wal-Mart in the previous post. It is ruining our old fashioned New England towns too. I sympathize. Please send some of those palm trees.

[Ruth]

Come on, share the bathroom story.

I have the same problem with cat hair...I figure if I don't point it out people won't notice.

[KnittyOtter]

Love the sock and how that yarn is knitting up.

We may need to get you an OttLite thingy what with all the black yarn knitting in your future. ;)

*waves from under a pile of cat hair*

Want that I should mail you some of my cat hair soon? Okay! Consider it done and done. :P