Here is the first Crusoe sock... it's about 3 inches long here. I added to the cast on stitches so it's really big - but there is no stretch to it and if it's too big to really wear I'll just wear it at home to keep my feet warm. Anyway, I love this pattern. (She calls it Crusoe because the stitches are stranded - that just kills me!). The yarn is from Knitpicks but this color (called Grandma ?!?) doesn't seem to exist anymore so I'm really hoping that I don't run out or something horrible like that.

I also hope this fits, otherwise it will end up unfinished and needle-less like...


This one. Poor, poor fair isle sock.
I will make another one. And I will swatch it first and I will finish it and make a second one. And I will continue the pattern through the entire stripe of color rather than relying on the pattern... some people like that the colors and the patterns don't really line up, I am less pleased with it. I'm thinking that each pattern change should correspond with a color change. It just bothers me. (And it was too small because I didn't swatch).
So that's why this poor unfinished sock has lost it's needles. They are now in the Crusoe sock. Which I'm thinking of calling my sadness sock because I was feeling really down when I started it and because it's stranded (I don't know why I think that's so damn funny) and because the colors move from these deep purples (even the lighter purple is really sort of gray) to this horrible pink.
Bean comes home tomorrow (yay) and it's my husband's birthday. He's not much of a cake person so I don't know what to do about that. Chocolate pie, maybe, or brownies. He'll eat brownies. He's really more into salty than sweet. I'm much more well rounded than that. Doritos and oreos, please. Ice cream and french fries. Peanut butter and crackers... My first boyfriend's dad told me that peanut butter is good two ways - with something and without. He was a great guy.
So birthday dinner - I'm making lasagne (his favorite) and I think Bean and I will do brownies. I already gave him his presents - a Best Buy gift certificate and Paul Simon's new CD "Surprise"(it's soooooooooo good). I always give presents early (unless I buy them en route) because it's really hard to hang on to something that I know will make someone happy. And he was. We listened to the CD and played around with the website Montage-A-Google which is way too entertaining. Seriously. If you're at work wait until you get home to go to this site. You can spend a LOT of time trying to think of new things to search for. My favorite search results came from "drop" and "lighthouse". My husband's favorite results came from "cubs" and "IRA". I want to make a dozen or so of the montages and turn them into posters or t-shirts or something.
I think I am getting a summer cold - sore throat and stuffy head and I'm having a hard time at work... I'm on the news shift today and it's one thing to keep your voice and breathing steady for a 20-second or so announcement and another thing entirely to do it for 2 and a half minutes. I get through with the newscast and feel like I can't breathe for a few minutes - and keeping my voice steady makes my throat hurt even more.
Oh well... only one more to go and then I can go home. I made Rachel Ray's bacon, leek, tomato (and potato) soup a little over a week ago and froze the leftovers. Maybe I'll reheat that for dinner tonight. It's sort of a soup day (even if it IS over 90 today and HUMID). We're in for a few days of thunderstorms - which I love.