Started sewing up the denim skirt last night. I always forget how much fun and how satisfying this kind of sewing is. I've got the front section (four gores with smallish pleats) done, and the center backs sewn together, ready to put the zipper in. (I always put skirt zippers in by hand; it doesn't take that much longer, especially when you count the time spent hunting for the machine's zipper foot, and it looks better in the end).

Also, driving back in from the field this morning, I got behind an old (1950s?) Ford Fairlane. (There's an antique car show in town this weekend). It had a cream and turquoise paint job. And it struck me that those two colors looked really nice together - better than turquoise and white would, and better to my eye than turquoise and black do. I have some turquoise sockyarn in my stash (you knew this was going to become a You Know You're A Knitter When moment, didn't you?) that I didn't know what to do with because it was just so bright, now I think maybe it could be toned down with some of the cream-colored Socka I bought just "to have." I'm not sure whether a full-out Fair Isle pattern would be quite right, perhaps a subtler slip-stitch pattern would work better.

Perhaps: Turquoise cuffs, heels, toes. Slipstitch turquoise and cream (predominantly cream) color pattern on the legs and foot.

It would also be interesting if I could find a Fair Isle motif that looked "fiftiesish" - you know, like the boomerang motif that was everywhere, or the sort of atomic-jackstone shape. I suppose I could try charting one out - although I'm not sure where I would find pictures of 1950s motifs to look at - and do that.

Then again, turquoise and cream socks with an atomic-age design are a bit twee, and I'd have to do an awful lot of 'splaining every time I wore them. And I'm not really into the Googie style of design, anyhow. And somehow, I think that kind of sock would be best worn with saddle shoes and, if not a poodle skirt, at least a long full skirt. No, I don't think so.

Perhaps a simple slip-stitch pattern, or a nice geometrical triangle or checkered Fair Isle design would be better.