Ayup, it's cold.

At least by Oklahoma standards. It was 19* (F) when I left the house. Fortunately there was no wind.

Ironically enough, it is 19* (C) in my office right now.

Which shouldn't feel cold, but does, by virtue of the fact that the vent over my head is once again blowing cold air on me. That kind of annoys me.

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I have been knitting. I'm almost done with the toe-up socks: I'm reading E. C. Pielou's "After the Ice Age" in the evenings and knitting on them. A few more rows and I can do the picot top of the second sock.

(I have to remind myself that when there's crap on TV, reading-for-work is a viable option.)

And although I said when I was working on these earlier that I wasn't sure I'd ever do another pair, I pulled some less-loved Regia out of the stash to experiment on - I'm going to try doing the socks again but (a) make more gusset stitches and (b) do the "return row" of the heel flap as purl only instead of the p1, slip 1 the pattern suggests to see if that makes a less-tight heel region and a deeper flap.

Because yeah, I can see the benefit to doing toe-up sometimes - and I remembered a stitch pattern I saw in a book, loved the thought of for socks, and then realized that it was a unidirectional pattern and that I couldn't figure out how to make it work so you could knit from the top down. So I may actually be "designing" (such as it is: plugging an existing stitch pattern into a slightly-modified existing sock pattern) a pair of toe-up socks.

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I'm also still working on the Little Child's Sock from Vintage Socks. Another blogger - maybe it was Grumperina? I don't know, I spent one sort-of not-wanting-to-work afternoon surfing lots of knit blogs - commented how "right" the vintage patterns feel to her and wondered if maybe she was an "old soul."

I feel the same rightness about the vintage patterns; I suppose it's that they're more complex than the just-plain socks I knit while reading, but not so complex you have to follow line by line. That they have a logic to them.

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I also started a new project. I decided I needed something just fun to knit on. It's not far enough for much of a picture yet but I will note that Diann will probably be happy to see it when she does.