DONE!

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Socks: Indian Corn
Pattern: Crusoe
Yarn: Hill Country Yarn's Instant Gratification, Indian Summer
Needles: US 4
Modification: Increase CO to 52
Start Date: April 6, 2008
Finished: April 9, 2008

They are wonderful, the yarn is wonderful, I love them!

It's very hard to discipline myself and not pull out one of the skeins of Candy Cane and start another pair.

I had great plans of returning to my Mittnz knitting, but some of the Log Cabin blankets a group of us are knitting for charity arrived in the mail yesterday, so I need to get those done and mailed out before I do anything else.

Had a wonderfully quiet day with Youngest Granddaughter yesterday. She played and watched her CD du jour while I listened to my book and knitted. Today should be similar! Yeah!

We had a cold front move in yesterday. In the 60s and 70s instead of the 80s. They say next week will be able to see triple digits in the distance. Summer is here in full force and some out there are still getting snow. Believe me, I wish I was there!

I finished up the first sock! I really like they way it turned out. Kinda wished I'd done an afterthought or similar heel to get the same effect on the heels as the toes. Hindsight is always 20-20! I think this yarn would knit up nicely in st st, too. The stripes would be in a pattern, but it appears it's a long pattern.

Second sock is CO and I've started the heel flap. I don't know why I am enjoying knitting these socks so much, but it's bordering on obsessive.

Tanks and Sox

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I'm sure I've not mentioned it, but my Eldest Son, the one in the wheel chair, is well over 6 feet tall and weighs, probably, over 250 lbs. He's big. And he only has one leg that works sorta well and one that works not well at all. Same with arms. So, he was done doing his business, stood up to get dressed, lost his balance, sat down abruptly and suddenly there were several gallons of water spewing out onto the bathroom floor.


When one looks at the 3/4 inch thick porcelain, one wonders how anyone could do that. Later that day I found out he's broken four other toilets at his dad's house. So today I have to deal with the complex office and find out what the costs for us will be if any.... His dad will need to pay for it...I hope.

In the midst of all that, I got quite a bit done my sock while watching movies with my son. This yarn is really nice...100% Merino which is great to work with. The pattern is great. It fits like a glove although I had changed the CO numbers at the very beginning. I CO 52 rather than the 40 something the pattern called for. In fact, I'd already done the cuff before I chose Crusoe as my stitch pattern. Anyway, it fits snuggly but not too snug.


The knot showed up in the first round of the gusset decreases, so eliminating it didn't change the color patterning at all. There is a dark band about an inch wide at the ankle corresponding to the gusset decreases which would be there anyway.

Other than that, my day was pretty uneventful. ("Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?")