A Treasure Found at Home

these will be my socks. this will get me into knitting gear. no questions asked, i must make these socks!

last night i watched ‘the princess bride’, which i have not seen in years! i forgot how good it is. laughing with friends felt really really good.

before the movie started, c and i sauntered into the living room to talk about knitting. we both nested down on the couch with the cat and started knitting and catching up on life in general while everyone else finished off dinner. i totally need a knitting circle!

today mom and dad fly in. their flight was delayed two hours in dfw due to fog around sfo. dad has a theory that they never tell you the real reason flights are delayed, so mom actually asked me if it was foggy today. yup. the sky is glowing white. foggy days mean diffused light. great for photographs, but hard on the eyes sometimes. the light comes from everywhere, which means no harsh shadows but also not just one place to shield your eyes from. maybe we’ll find some nice sunglasses this weekend.

i have a HUGE pile in the kitchen of things to give away, and as i look around the room i find more and more i could really do without. i should take photos of this process, really. i’m being harsh, or trying to be, and realistic. no, i never really do wear those bright red high heeled mary janes with the rhinestone stars. someone else will find them just as cute as i do. and one of the women’s circle’s i’m on a mailing list for (though have never been able to make a gathering) is planning a clothing swap! i figure as long as i promise to take bags of leftover stuff to out of the closet, they won’t mind if i bring lots and take next to nothing.

arrrrrr. tomorrow be knit like… er TALK like a pirate day!

but, for those artsy fartsy types there’s knit like a pirate, as well.

funny that… ‘jenny’ is the most common mishearing of my irl name… which, i think, sounds nothing like jenny.

i do still knit. not really fast and not really as often as i’d like, but i’m still at it.

when i was in colorado after my grandma’s funeral i went to the little knitting store on the high street of the town my parents’ rented condo is in. i really wanted a book of sock patterns, but all they had was a ‘book’ a few pages thick with about six patterns in it. i thought it would be nice to 1) make socks for my sock loving friends and 2) make arm warmers from sock patterns for my funkier friends. i bought the six sock book and have been working on a nice pair of orange socks with a twisty pattern that i have recently accidentally started twisting in the opposite direction from the twist i started with…which is why it’s now on hold.

i just look at it and wonder how successful i’ll be at frogging while using double pointed needles (dpns). it’s a daunting thought and so the half finished sock just sits on my dresser and mocks me with it’s wonky twist pattern.

but, that wasn’t the point of this post, truly. the point is that while i was in the store the woman told me that socks are going to be all the rage soon! i wondered a) how she knew this and b) did this mean there would be two sock patterns in the magazines next season? or would books be published?

when i got back i decided to check knitty since it had been a long time. and there was their summer issue chock full of hand warmers and socks!! and today they published their surprise pattern: a universal toe up sock pattern!

that woman in colorado was right! this is exactly what i wanted… and at a much lower price than i expected, too.