knitting mish-mash from a tired person
Until quite recently, I was riding the bus a lot and knitting up a storm en route. This took me rapidly through some 'socks that rock' socks:
--includes heel reinforcements since I noticed my other favorite pair was wearing out there, and designed especially for riding my bike to work, which has significantly delayed the finishing of the partner to this sock:
... a monkey in regia silk. I'm on the heel flap of sock 2 so eventually will make it through. Meanwhile, I decided not to knit my sister a pair with another color of the Serendipity yarn as it's too soft--so soft, and so pretty, but instantly semi-felted on the ball of the foot. I attempted to buy other superwash yarn to start some for her but failed. Instead, I've been obsessed with instantly knitting a bunch of new stash yarn from a yarn swap last weekend, at which I only took, for fear of sharing the moths from my house (not, I believe, in my stash, but I was afraid).
Then there's the pretty, pretty project, my first knitting-for-book-publication:
And in my day job, things are going pretty well. It's quite different than a month ago, and yet--the same because I have about 1.5 weeks to compose an annual report draft, and not really any hope of being more productive on it during the day than I have been in the past three weeks. I still have too much work to do, but mostly I feel like it's work that suits me, so it's not so bad. It is exhausting, though, mostly (as usual) on the personal interactions level, and I am an introvert so it's pretty taxing.
And I miss my nephews and hanging out with my sister--but it's pretty amusing to make everyone in my office look at their latest blog post and admire their ability to fit almost a whole plastic easter egg in their mouths. They say I'm biased, but they are awfully cute, aren't they?
--includes heel reinforcements since I noticed my other favorite pair was wearing out there, and designed especially for riding my bike to work, which has significantly delayed the finishing of the partner to this sock:
... a monkey in regia silk. I'm on the heel flap of sock 2 so eventually will make it through. Meanwhile, I decided not to knit my sister a pair with another color of the Serendipity yarn as it's too soft--so soft, and so pretty, but instantly semi-felted on the ball of the foot. I attempted to buy other superwash yarn to start some for her but failed. Instead, I've been obsessed with instantly knitting a bunch of new stash yarn from a yarn swap last weekend, at which I only took, for fear of sharing the moths from my house (not, I believe, in my stash, but I was afraid).
Then there's the pretty, pretty project, my first knitting-for-book-publication:
And in my day job, things are going pretty well. It's quite different than a month ago, and yet--the same because I have about 1.5 weeks to compose an annual report draft, and not really any hope of being more productive on it during the day than I have been in the past three weeks. I still have too much work to do, but mostly I feel like it's work that suits me, so it's not so bad. It is exhausting, though, mostly (as usual) on the personal interactions level, and I am an introvert so it's pretty taxing.
And I miss my nephews and hanging out with my sister--but it's pretty amusing to make everyone in my office look at their latest blog post and admire their ability to fit almost a whole plastic easter egg in their mouths. They say I'm biased, but they are awfully cute, aren't they?