TChem, you are absolutely right. The "Laugh-Out-Loud Cats," now that I think about it, is startlingly reminiscent of the old Krazy Kat and Popeye comic strips in terms of its spirit - sort of a "Here's a look into my weird world; I don't care too much if you don't understand it all." (There are probably other old strips I'm forgetting but I remember checking out books of the old Popeye comics and the Krazy Kat comics from the library when I was a kid.)

Stuff like that blows me away - how he can so letter-perfectly capture the spirit of those old strips, and yet also have a nod to the silly new internet phenomenon. Maybe that which seems new is not so very new after all.

< waynengarth > I'm not worthy! < /waynengarth >

(I hope he does a book of them someday; I would buy it.)

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And finally, some photos.

The one thing I actually finished over my recent "vacation." These are the Waving Lace socks (so cleverly photographed with the book that they are the "cover socks" for):



I used Lorna's Laces sockyarn in a pale apricot color. The socks are made following the standard pattern.


I also did work on a pair of "simple" socks, using a Trekking yarn (it's from the line they call "Aquarelle," which I now know - from my researches on that "Brazil" song - means "watercolor." I forget the number but I bought it from Carodan Farm and I think they probably still offer it.



They are my current knit-and-read pair of socks.

And finally, the back and front (just finished this evening, and no, I didn't need to do any plotting or planning to get the shaping to reverse) of the Greek pullover:



I've cast on and started the sleeves. I am doing my standard technique of knitting both sleeves at once on a long circular needle; that way I'm sure to get the shaping exactly the same. (And it seems that they go faster that way.)

I'll be glad to actually get this one done; just a few days ago it seemed like it was going to never be finished but now it seems pretty close.