What a Life!

Okay, the other day I talked about my valient efforts on those two huge, intimidating projects. Then you know what I did? I stopped working on them and worked on something else. Namely, my sock for the month of May.

Now you must understand, I said earlier this year that I was going to knit one sock a month for a total of six pairs during 2007. I’ve stayed on track so far, but each sock has rolled over ever so slightly into the next month before it was finished. Except for this month.

Yes, during the month of May, I decided that my next pair of socks would be Monkey socks by Cookie A which I would be knitting with some Cherry Tree Hill sock yarn in my stash. So I cast on about this time last week, and I finished Sunday. And yes, I think that would be a personal record for how many days it takes me to knit one sock. This would be a really bad picture of the first Monkey sock. [Better picture when they’re both finished…promise.]

I’m telling you…it’s a really fun pattern to knit, though. There’s some blogger I saw somewhere (don’t remember where at the moment) who has knit nine pairs of these socks. Though I have yet to finish my first pair, I certainly understand the addiction to that stitch pattern. It’s simple, easy, predictable, has variety – it’s everything you would want in a stitch pattern. A happy medium between the monotony of the Charcoal Slogalong and the tedium of St. Brigid.

Speaking of which, here is a picture I took right before I started writing this post.

I have, in fact, finished the back of the Charcoal Slogalong, and I just began the sixth repeat in St. Brigid. You can also see in that photo the provisional cast on for the front of the Charcoal Slogalong, though I haven’t gotten past the “provision” and started working with the real yarn on the front yet. If you look at the size of the balls of yarn, though, you can see they’re progressing neck-in-neck. Cables really do use more yarn. Just saying is all…

So now back to your regularly scheduled programming. Joey’s new diapers arrived a couple hours ago and I need to go wash them so we can use them. We had two plumber-butt blowouts this morning…I’m anxious to retire our current stash…

Cheers!