February 16, 2007

Quiet Knitting Day

It was just a quiet day. I am about half done with the heel flap of yellow sock #2. I got several hours of quiet knitting in. Which is rare for me. Generally there is all kinds of noise going on from various sources. But yesterday, everyone kinda left for large blocks of time.

My autistic grandson, K, and my son came over for a visit. My son, Z, is working nights now, so we save a couple TV shows for him to watch. Thursdays is his day to "catch up". He watched TV and I knitted. K wandered around looking at things and seemed to be perfectly content. He loves my aquarium screen saver!

Yahoo....tax refund just went through...may stop at my LYS for some "real" sock yarn today! My no calorie Valentine's treat! Which of course is great incentive to finish up my yellow sock today....or as soon as possible!

Today's my day with F. Remember I'd told you he'd knitting one sleeve on his pinwheel sweater inside-out? Well, he cut the sleeve off, picked up all the live sts and today we are going to get great practice learning and perfecting the Kitchener Stitch! F and his husband, B, are going out for Valentine's Day tonight... Dinner and a movie. Some days I really miss not having some kind of a significant other. This V Day was probably the worst I've every had in that respect. Now, to balance that out, I can remember more than a dozen V Days that were totally ignored by various significant others in my life.... So, I'm officially not complaining!

February 3, 2007

Dyeing again....

Spent most of the day with my best friend, F, yesterday. We had to make a run to the local LYS so I picked up three skeins of white wool so I could show F how to dye with Kool Aid. Pic above is our results. The purple really needs to be overdyed. I don't like the colors with grape KA. See if I have some blue or red to overdye it today.

F had BO his pinwheel sweater but it was waaaaay too tight of a bind off. So he undid the BO and I suggested he use a bigger needle to BO with. He did and it worked like a charm. When I left he was picking out the sts from the afterthought heel technique to start the sleeves.

I got about three rows done on the sock flap. Today I start the short rows to shape the heel.

I'd made my son, Z, (pic on yesterday's post) a roll brim hat. He didn't really like it as it was too loose, but really needed the wool hat as he works outside early in the morning and/or late at night when it's still in the mid-30s or low 40s. So, I found a similar color of Encore and added ribbing to it for him. The "seam" where I picked up the sts, makes a natural folding point if he wants the ribbing folded up, and hardly shows if he doesn't. I am really pleased with how it turned out.

Oh, I did the grocery shopping yesterday. Twice. My daughter decided she needed to go before I dropped her off so I could take the car to F's. My knee woke me up every time I moved last night and is really tender today. It doesn't hurt to walk or drive (standard transmission) but it sure hurts now. Guess it's a good thing I can sit (after I finish the housework) for the rest of the day and knit! Which would make it different from any other day, how???