It's slow going because I'm using size 0 (2 mm) needles, and consciously making an effort to knit tightly, as this is a loosely spun, kind-of-funky yarn and I want to try to make the socks as long-wearing as possible. (Though I anticipate they will not last as long as, say, the Regia socks where the yarn's tightly spun and has "polyamid" mixed in with it.)
Anyway, here's the sock:
Shown next to the ball of yarn (it's color S95; Noro doesn't seem to be into giving cute names to its colorways like some companies), because you probably wouldn't expect those colors to come out of a ball that looks like that. I'm knitting from the inside of the ball (it's more-or-less center pull though I did get a couple globs of what some term "yarn barf" that I had to untangle before I could knit it). I'm just hitting the first strongly colored magenta/purple section. It looks like there will maybe be one full color repeat and a bit per sock.
I'm not sure I'm crazy about really long color repeats.
I ran out of steam on knitting more on the heel flap this evening, because of the tightness with which it must be knit and the slow progress of the heel flap.
Also, I'm kind of sore. It was the "town trash-off day" yesterday and I worked really hard trying (all by myself) to clean up both sides of an approximately 3/8 mile length of road that was REALLY REALLY bad. (I think it's where the local teens go to have their beer parties; I must have picked up 75 beer bottles). I worked too fast and probably too long and my back and shoulders have been complaining all day. So I need to take a hot bath tonight to try to deal with some of the discomfort.
(What irks me? In about 3 weeks, the roadway I picked up will look as bad as it did before. I'm trying to tell myself it's an exercise in Zen, kind of like those sumi paintings you do with water, but I think I'm a little too Western to be satisfied by that.)
Also, I've been working on the quilt-in-the-frame:
No, you can't see the quilting stitches on there but suffice it to say that I still have three or four of the big blocks and a number of the little setting triangles left to do. But that's still less left to do than before.
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Other people will notice--maybe not the ones who made the mess, but the people who live in the area. There's an unloved stretch of street that I walk along to get to the grocery store, and as the snow melted I was really disappointed to see how trash-filled the side of the road was. I was thinking about cleaning it up myself even, but knew I needed to figure out what to do with the trash. Last week, though, it was well-cleaned, with some full trash bags, which got picked up a few days later. And now it's a lovely walk!
So yeah, someone will notice, and be thinking good thoughts at you even if they don't know who you are.
I love the quilt, I am a big fan of old fashioned quilts. I finally finished my Carolina Crossroads top yesterday, but need to take a picture.
I love the quilt too.
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