New Knitting

Socks

I’ve got two knitting projects going on right now.  The first one is socks.  I think I will always have socks on needles.  I just finished a pair!  But…you see the problem…I didn’t finish a pair of the same sock.  Ah, well.  The problem is the yarn.  It’s the yarn’s fault.  When I buy new sock yarn, I can’t wait to see what it looks like knitted up.  You can’t really tell just by looking at the yarn.  Are the stripes going to be thick or thin?  Does the pattern repeat or is it random?  So when I finished the first sock, instead of starting on the second, I just had to see what that new yarn looked like.  I must finish a matching pair before I cast on any new sock yarn!  (We’ll see.)  Hailey is modeling the socks for the picture.  The socks do actually fit me. 

Yarn

The second project is a joint effort blanket with my friend Angela.  This is the mitered square blanket from the Mason-Dixon Knitting book.  Angela and I worked together on another blanket last year.  We thought we would do the same this time.  Blankets are a good team project because otherwise they can seem neverending.  The pictures show the new yarn for the blanket and what one put together square might look like.  Very colorful I’d say. 

 Blanket

Miss Potter

I watched three movies during my last few days of Christmas vacation – Micheal Moore’s Sicko, We are Marshall, and Miss Potter.  My favorite was Miss Potter.  I did not know anything about Beatrix Potter other than she is the author of the little tiny books that always looked a little funny on the shelf because they were shorter than all the others.  Of course I read The Tale of Peter Rabbit as a kid (and thought that Mr. McGregor was a pretty scary dude what with that rake and all).  I thought it was neat that Beatrix Potter wanted the books to be small so they would be affordable.  I was also not aware of her devotion to conservation efforts.  She bought farms in the Lake District to prevent them from being developed.  She left all the land to The National Trust when she died.  She was a forward thinking, generous woman.  Beatrix Potter supposedly said, “Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality” and “All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”