Francie sock

This weekend has been full of the usual knitting and spinning, as well as a fantastic weekend with Miss Bug, where we worked on her ability to go to bed and actually stay there. We are doing well now. We have the wandering down the stairs to 2 times a night rather than 5, this is progress.

I spun up another hank of the coopworth for the light lopi sweater. Half of the wicked witch final hank is spun, and I started on the green color for the light lopi.

I’ve been doing a lot of spinning outside these days, Bug wants to play outside and the weather has been fantastic. So I’ve just grown accustomed to taking my wheel out on the porch while she plays. Tonight one of my neighbors, who has been watching me surreptitiously, decided to come over and ask a bit more about it. Mind you I had dinner on the stove at the time, I was sauteeing vegetables for vegetarian spaghetti, which I had been looking forward to all week. So my neighbor catches me and starts asking me a bunch of technical questions about spinning, and I get the feeling that she’d really like to see more of it. So I asked her to wait, ran inside, turned off the stove (which was smelling a bit burned) and grabbed a couple of hanks of yarn. My neighbor was just enchanted, and asked many questions and felt the yarn, and said she would love to learn to knit, and all the while I am smelling something a bit burned even outside. I can’t seem to politely get away, and I know I turned the burner off, so I console myself with that. Finally the neighbor wanders back to her house, and I wander inside to turn my dinner back on. It is so smokey you cannot imagine! Apparently I turned the burner on high rather than off, and my poor dinner was absolutely burned through and through. I was terribly disappointed! I felt like a doof, and it felt like such a waste since fresh food is so expensive these days, you know?

I had to vent out the house really well including Bugs room which had gotten really bad and the smoke just poured up the stairs. But by bedtime all was well again. I was able to salvage just enough off the top to make one dinner for me, which I will eat at lunch time tomorrow.

I’ve been working on the second of J’s socks, almost to where I need to place the heel. My goal is to have them done by next weekend. I also got a lot of work done on the francie sock, and I would also like them done next weekend, but that isn’t so much of a goal as a desire. If spinning supersedes, I won’t take issue with that!

I leave you with Francie pictures:

And a shot of the sole of the foot. Yes, you read that right, this is the sole of the foot, fantastic isn’t it?