Snippets
It occurred to me that I have yet to post about BF's toe-up socks, which were completed some time ago. I had originally intended to post installments on the various parts of the sock, but the best laid plans blah blah blah. I did, however, write down some of BF's choice commentary while I knitted them:
BF: Those ridges won't dig into my foot, will they?
MJ: Don't worry, an hour into a hike and sock ridges will be the last thing on your mind.
BF: Where's the other one?
MJ: ...
When I finished one sock, I left it on the yarn just in case I ran out on the second sock. Turns out I had enough.
BF: Will you cut the yarn when you're finished knitting? That's like an umbilical cord or something. Or you know, little kids' gloves connected to each other so they don't lose them.
MJ: Wow, you're pretty creative there.
BF: You're going to cut the yarn, right?
BF: Are people really interested in that much detail on a sock?
I'm a form-follows-function kind of girl, so I make do with yarn loops as stitch markers and safety pins as row markers. Here they mark the beginning of a row as well as every 10 rows.
BF: Hey. These. Look. Good.
Finito. Early morning insomnia results in two finished socks. (I remember the early morning, 3a insomnia. I remember dreaming about finished socks. And then I woke up...) I used a tubular bind-off, a great technique that gives 1x1 ribbing a finished look. BF has big feet (don't snicker): these things are practically long sleeves on me.
We're going on yet another trip, back up to Utah to climb and witness fall in all its mapled glory! Six days in Maple Canyon. Margene asked once how I could do this climbing thing: the fear, the danger, the sheer height. It's an obsession to me the way that knitting is to some (and you know who you are). In addition, being out surrounded by natural beauty and calm does wonders to the soul. It certainly doesn't hurt when I successfully redpoint--or even onsight--a particularly hard climb! Have a good weekend.
Blogworthy:
◊ A Breakout-type game that's interrupting my freelance a bit.
◊ Via Kottke, news that Bill Stumpf, maker of the Aeron chair, has passed away.
