Start the Day Off Right!
Tolerable Temps? - Less than 75 degrees, check!
Shade? - West Side of House in morning, check!
Puppy Dog? - Across the yard in her own shade, check!
Cold Drink? - Iced raspberry lemonade, check!
Knitting? - First sock of the 2nd Trekking sock of the summer in progress, check!
It was a great way to start the day, and is part of the reason I’m posting so late today (that and I slept in). The only problem was that there is a house being built across the open space from us so it was somewhat spoiled by pounding hammers and cussing men. But it was wonderful to get to spend some quality time (sorta) with Emma and start the day off peacefully.
As you can tell from the photos above, the heel has been turned and the gusset completed, plus perhaps another 2 inches or so. There was a very interesting development over the weekend however, upon the completion of the gusset I asked DH to try it on. Keep in mind, he tried the sock on when I had 3-4 inches done. Well, he couldn’t get his heel in there. In fact, it is a bit tighter than I usually prefer, but I can get them on. Because there are traveling stitches in this pattern it isn’t quite as stretchy and I blithely cast-on the same number of stitches I used on the Balance socks because (and I can’t believe I’m fessing up to this) DH and I have almost the same size feet. He needs an additional 1/2 inch in foot length before I start the toe than I do.
Since the sock does fit me and this stitch pattern can be a bit fiddly or at least slow, I didn’t want to frog, so I am getting a pair of socks in the yarn that I really wanted, but I was trying to be the bigger person and had started these socks for DH. So now I’ll need to try get my hands on another ball of this color so I can make a pair of socks from this colorway for him. I have to say, this color and pattern combination has been a big hit with men! But, DH’s will need to be a drastically different sort of pattern on the leg so it is easy to tell whose is whose.
