I finished a most unusual pair of socks this week! Early in my knitting experience, before I had actually made any socks, I purchased sock yarn at the request of my young lady, who has a distinct sense of fashion. Think Punky Brewster. I only recently got to start knitting with that yarn - Lorna's Laces, Shepherd's Lace, Funky Stripe - and realized quickly that I only had enough for one sock. I happened to have also purchased too little of a mulberry to pink variegated yarn online around the same time. So I mixed the two using a rough Fibonacci Sequence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number) in a pattern from Schurch's More Sensational Knitted Socks called Alternating Triangles and finished off with a lettuce edge cuff. She loves them and I love that I got to make them for her. The next pair will be for me and after that, a very uninteresting but serviceable black, no stitch pattern pair for the new soldier. He has said I could put grey in the toe and heel if I must. Two completely different personalities!
Wow! Going to school again is a wild trip. Going to school now involves wi-fi, and discussion threads, and electronically submitted homework and quizzes, and Vista (don't ask me what I think unless you REALLY want to know, and pack a lunch!), and Office 2007 (see comment on Vista!) and coordinating with my husband's MBA program and my daughter's social life. It is week 3 of back to school at 41 and I've knit 5 rows. This is turning out to be a serious cramp in my stitching style. Oh, I know it will be worth it in the end, but where else can I vent??
Meanwhile, my oldest is off to Basic Training in a week. I look at pictures of the curly blond blue-eyed baby of 16 years ago and can't seem to make the connection. I'm not an empty-nester yet, still have the Fashionista to survive for a few more years, but she doesn't much resemble the baby pics either.
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