Just to prove that I haven’t spent all my time reading lately . . . Less of it than usual, in fact . . . Here is the pair of socks I started last night. I know, I know, it looks more like a really weird pair of shades, but it is in fact two toes–just not deep enough yet to really look like toes yet!

(But you know . . . sunglasses! In high school, my friend Dawn had a pair that was like plastic blinds–just horizontal plastic slats–that worked remarkably well (and which we thought was very cool). How neat would it be to knit, say, a lace pattern over sunglass frames? You’d be able to see through them, yet they’d block some of the sun–even if they weren’t really safe enough for driving . . . hmmm! You heard it here first, folks!)

Anyway, in addition to the Koigu socks, my pi are square shawl is coming along. Here it is, draped over the edge of my bookcase. I’ve got about 4 more rows before the next–and theoretically the last–increase, but I don’t quite believe, at this moment, that it’s going to be long enough in another 52 rows . . . but it probably will! I just need to see it to believe it.

Here’s another look–I tried to get the “square” section in the photo. The diagonal running from left to right is the demarcation between the circle portion and the squared-off fronts. You can just barely make out in the picture, the last set of stitch increases, where I did “dummy” ones into the garter stitch, square section, before starting a vine-lace panel down along the front edge. (This will all be much easier to see once I get this blocked, trust me!)

  Let’s see, and then there’s the spinning. I finished my second bobbin of wool from Grafton fibers (which looks a little smaller than the first one. I don’t think I divided very evenly! I really need to get a scale one of these days.) It’s a deeper blue/green combination, almost jewel tones. I decided I wanted more, but couldn’t remember which colorway I had ordered, so I ordered this, more turquoise-colored batt, which I’ll spin next, and then ply with the original colors. If all works out correctly, it should be a very nice yarn when I’m done. . . I hope!

I am a little concerned, though. I’ve been trying to figure out the long-draft method (or at least, something that resembles it), and I have a feeling that some of the singles in this bobbin aren’t twisted quite enough. And I know some is over twisted. I just hope it all holds together . . . (grin)

When you use “singles” in a sentence, is it a plural or singular noun?

Meanwhile, our weather allowed Chappy and me to get a lunchtime walk for the fourth day in a row (shhhhh . . . don’t tell anyone . . . I don’t want to jinx it). This is the most exercise I’ve gotten in almost a month….

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