Wednesday night, around 10 pm I started to feel a little sick. Sinus pressure and sore throat. At 1 am I woke up completely miserable, and ended up having to miss out on Olivia’s field trip to the tide pools at Mukilteo Beach yesterday. I had a fever of 102, and I wanted to die most of the day. I seem to be better today. No fever, but my sinuses are still sore and congestion is moving into my chest. Bummer. This sort of thing isn’t supposed to happen in JUNE! Of course, it doesn’t really look like June.
But making lemonade from lemons, I have dinner in the crockpot already, figuring I’d take advantage of the little bit of energy I have this morning, and the cool day to make some Hamburger Barley soup.
So far, Clark is healthy. I pray he stays that way and doesn’t catch this, because if he gets it, we’re ALL going to be miserable.
Thanks for the tips on sock knitting. I don’t know which method I’ll try, but I’ve been thinking about testing one or both on Christmas stockings. I want new stockings this year and the larger yarn might help me out in the beginning while I get used to using circulars. As I said yesterday, I like doing two socks at the same time, but I prefer doing each part of the sock one at a time. I do one cuff, then the other, one leg, then the other, one heel flap….. So I need two sets of whatever I choose to use. But if I start out with Christmas stockings, I can use the larger circulars that I already have, and see which way I want to do it. Make sense?
The trouble is designing the stockings. In our new house, the style we’ve been going for is Modernism, except that we’ve broken one of the “rules”, which is a limited color palette. We have lots and lots of color in our house, but I’d still define our style as somewhat Modern. As I’ve been thinking about stitch patterns and colors that might fit in our living room, I’m not coming up with much. So I went to this website, looking for inspiration for graphing out some intarsia insanity to make a retro looking fabric. Like this, or this.
I can’t decide if it’ll be really cool, or really stupid.
And there’s also the choice of fiber. It needs to be the right fiber, and I don’t know what that is yet.
June 9th, 2006 at 5:20 am
Let the girls help decide what their stockings should look like. Kids are traditonalists;they may want whatever means Christmas to them?and forget about harmonizing with the paint on the walls.
If you plan to make new stockings every few years anyhow, their 2006 designs won’t be round forever.
June 9th, 2006 at 5:32 am
I don’t think I want to make new ones every couple of years. The ones I have now were made when I first learned to knit. They were what I made when I was learning how to read patterns, and you can tell.
My girls like funky things, like Nate and I do, but getting their input is a good idea.
June 9th, 2006 at 6:17 am
I just got over a doozie of a cold myself – good luck!
June 9th, 2006 at 7:15 am
My vote is the fabric definitely looks cool. Go for the intarsia insanity, and then go over the edge and felt them! If you start a Christmas Stocking Knit along, I’ll join. I need to knit stockings this year too.
June 9th, 2006 at 7:19 am
I’m sorry you’re not well. I hope Clark stays healthy! I’ve been meaning to ask you if you remember where you got your sling? Or did you make it? Take care of yourself.
June 9th, 2006 at 7:46 am
Ugh. Sounds like you have what I still have. Sorry to hear that Laura.
June 9th, 2006 at 8:17 am
I hope you feel better and that everyone else says healthy!
June 9th, 2006 at 8:54 am
I like the second one you listed. The felted idea adds to the modern look.
I second the stocking knit along!
June 9th, 2006 at 8:59 am
Yeah, I’m giving some serious thought to both of those suggestions!
June 9th, 2006 at 11:56 am
Oh, dear, Poor Miss Finch!! There, there — hope you are feeling better.
Now, those Christmas socks. If you think you are going to do some amazing intarsia design on your socks, AND knit them in the round — don’t even try!! It ain’t gonna work! Sorry to tell you that. Nope, ain’t gonna work.
I recommend FairIsle patterning, which lends itself perfectly for circular knitting. And it felts into beautiful soft designs, so that is another perfect idea too. Don’t go for anything too detailed in the design as it will be lost into fuzziness when felted.
Socks are amazingly wonderful things to knit, so exciting, so many things happening (but one after the other) and so very satisfying. I also like your idea of doing them side-by-side, but separately. I’ve done them both on one circ and on separate sets of needles — both work well.
Can’t wait to see what you come up with!
June 10th, 2006 at 12:32 pm
I’ve never had it made in a crockpot, but my mom used to make Hamburger Barley soup all the time during our long, cold Upstate NY winters. Everytime I make that soup it makes everything seem cozier. Hope you feel better soon!
June 11th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
Hey you might want to check out the Christmas stockings in Weekend Knitting. They don’t have the intarsia feel but might go with a modernism but colorful look!