One Half of a Pair...

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I finished up the first of the Tinkerbelle socks last night while watching Becoming Jane. I'd like to say the movie was outstanding, but..... I have CO the second sock and am only five rounds from beginning the heel flap.

It's the start of a new project over at Native American Support. Ann at Sheep Shots has challenged us to make 8 pairs of hand warmers: Gloves, mittens, mitts, armwarmers, wristers....If they warm the hands, they put you in the running. Mailing date is the end of September. Surely you can make some, too, can't you? I think prizes may be involved, but don't hold me to it!

We bought a new washer yesterday at the local scratch and dent store. Got a really good deal on a nice simple washing machine. Although bells and whistles are great to play with, they add so much to the cost and to repairs. Me? I just need something to put the dirty stuff in and then later take out the clean stuff! They are supposed to deliver it today and take the old one away. How nice!


I was just thinking.... I have made it a practice to take my paperback knitting books and have them rebound with a spiral binding. Then the books stay open, fold back and are just more usable. Now I wish I'd been smart enough to include several blank pages of paper in the binding for notes, ideas, etc. I really hate mutilating books by taping, stapling, paperclipping or other wise adding pages, and abhor writing in books. However I do love to look through books that others have made notes in the margins and otherwise recreated the book into a personal piece of themselves. I just have too many grade school nuns in my head telling me, "Do not mar the books!" (Thanks so much, Sister Mary Discipline! NOT!) I wish I had a way to add the notes for the heel mentioned below as well as the one I shared yesterday without marring my books.

Today is the memorial service for the childhood friend of my kids. She passed away unexpectedly in her sleep at about 25 years of age shortly before I left on vacation. So hard when young people die.

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Look at this variation of the Eye of Partridge heel. Isn't it pretty?

The Magic's Back!

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I finally got a good start that yielded some decent results! I didn't have free wooden needles to work the sock as I wanted to, so I decided to double up, use two strands and my trusty #3 Boyes.
Susan, at Dog-Lover's Yarn shared a pattern she'd written with a heel that extended the Eye of Partridge stitch down the turn and onto the bottom of the heel. I only utilized it through the turn, but it's something to consider for those that create holes on the bottom of their heels. When Susan shared the pattern, she put the usual disclaimer on the bottom: Please do not distribute or sell pattern or items made from it without my prior permission. Some indignant knitter on Knitlist decided Susan had no right to restrict people because all she did was combine some generic sock knitting elements together to create a pattern. Duh! Isn't that what many, many, many patterns are?

This indignant writer said, "As I said, it was nice of Susan to post a pattern, but I am not planning on checking with her if I want to sell a pair of socks with these
elements in it."

I wrote to Susan with this included in my e-mail: What she failed to notice is there is nothing really new under the knitting sun. Everybody is just doing a variation of something someone else has already done. Imagine if we'd had the internet when Barbara Walker published all her books. Some tactless person would complain that she'd already done those patterns and who did BW think she was compiling them all in a book and getting credit and money for them.....

I think the indignant knitter was just miffed cuz Susan wrote it all down in a nice easy to follow concise way!

Life has been pretty uneventful since I got home. In fact, other than going out for Chinese Tuesday night, I've pretty much stayed in the house. It's been nice. However, that changes today. We need to go shopping for a washing machine. First stop is the local scratch and dent store.

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Karen, at The Knitting Patch shared this cartoon from Texas Tech.

I snagged this pic from the RaineySisters blog. Is it not the funniest? BTW, if you have not experienced the Rainey sisters, go check them out. Great knitting, great stories.