Hooray for easily-memorized fancy stitch patterns:



This is the beginning of the Caledonian Mist pattern (which you can buy here, which also comes with another, twisted-stitch pattern sock pattern.

It's a nice pattern. Fun to knit, not boring but not painfully complicated. It's entirely possible to do them without a row counter.

I'm using Damselfly Yarns' "Sturdy Sheep" sockyarn in a special dyed colorway called "Shadowed Snows" (shop here, blog here)

It's fun using yarn from someone you kind-of, sort-of "know" (well, through the Internet, at least).

Yesterday evening was the first time this week I was actually HOME in the evening. It does make a difference. I was never one of those "gotta go out" people, even when I was of the age supposedly to do that. I was a lot happier at home, reading - even in my tiny sad "efficiency" apartment in Ann Arbor, I was more content to stay home than to go "clubbing."

I am the classic introvert. While I can't really say I dislike people, being around them too long drains me. Being able to be home and not have to talk to someone for a few hours and being able to do what I choose to do for a few hours is much more refreshing.

I also worked a bit more on the Sea Glass Quilt. The last cutting step was to cut the remaining wide strips into 5" chunks.

So I started happily cutting. And then realized that the strips weren't going to be long enough. Then I realized I had cut 6" chunks instead, and I would, as a result, be short of fabric (most of the pieces were fat quarters and were all used up).

I said a few very unladylike words, and then went and dug in my fabric stash. I found a couple of bits that work - I'm not terribly happy with them, but they match in terms of color and general theme so I guess they will go. But I hate it when I do that - when I don't pay perfect attention and cut the tiny bit of precious fabric I have left in such a way that I won't have enough of it. (And this is also partly WHY you have a stash - otherwise, I'd have had to wait until I had time to go to a quilt shop (perhaps more than one) or order online a couple pieces to make up for what I was missing).