Between meetings and being really tired at night this week:  I just haven’t been knitting.  I did knit for awhile last night and have evaluated where I’m at:

I timed myself this morning and it took me 2 minutes 48 seconds to do one complete round of 80 stitches.  If I were able to just knit without having the yarn tangle, or have to switch the yarn color, or have anyone talk to me or need me to let them out or have to go to the bathroom myself:  it would take me another 215 minutes (3 and a half hours…) just to do all of the plain stripes.  The heel, patterned section, ribbing, bind off, and tail burying would account for another 2 or 3 hours (at least), so we’re talking a minimum of 5.5 to 6 hours to get this second sock done.

I’m just not sure that’s physically possible for me, especially considering I’ve developed a swallowing glass kind of sore throat…I’m not feeling guilty about possibly not getting it done though:  getting one sock done was a pretty big deal to me, learning to do Fair Isle, and learning the short row heel were great accomplishments, so no matter what, I feel pretty good about this experience.

Want to see something super cute?  I bought myself a new wallet yesterday:

It was either this polka dot one or a plain red one.

Actually, it wasn’t much of a contest.

You’ll have to excuse the blurriness of my photos tonight. It’s been kind of a traumatic day, and apparently, blurry photos are the best I can manage.

First, the good news:

Yes! My first sock is done! I’m not entirely sure I can actually manage to get the second one done this week, but I’m sure going to try.

It might be hard, though, as my age seems to be catching up with me.

I found my first gray hair this morning.

I can no longer gloat about the fact that my YOUNGER siblings both have gray, and I don’t. (Of course, you can be sure I yanked that hair promptly, but now I’ll be on the lookout for more. Mark looked, and said he didn’t see any more, but I’m not sure he would have told me the truth at that point).

(And yes, I know I’m not really THAT old, and readers who are older than me aren’t at all sympathetic, but geeze, I bet you were kind of freaked out by your first gray, too, so please let me have my moment of whining…)

The other trauma I experienced today:

Joe’s feet, while nowhere near as big around as mine, are now the same LENGTH as my feet. Will’s aren’t quite as long, but they aren’t far behind.  They’ve both been desperately hungry lately, so I’m not surprised by a growth spurt, but holy cow!  I have big feet!  And his are already as long as mine????

It was all so much that I had to take a nap. I may have to go to bed early, too.

I thought I was staying on track for getting these finished, but I think I’ve fallen a bit behind, I should probably be completely finished witht he first sock by now, but I’m close:

I do have part of the toe of the 2nd sock started, but I don’t think it adds up to quite enough to say I’m half way done.  The upper Fair Isle part is definitely not perfect, I need to work on my tension, but I hope that blocking the socks will help.  I’m pretty thrilled with how it looks, and even though my right hand felt more awkward last night working the Fair Isle than it had when I did the the foot section, it still went pretty well.

We had to go get groceries tonight, and I could only knit on the way up, too dark on the way back.  I should probably shut down and go get busy on some more knitting.  Time’s a wastin’!

We got 2 more inches of snow over night and expect more tomorrow.  Woohoo. (not.)

TTFN -

Suzanne

I have turned the heel (I did a short row heel, my first.  I messed up the purl side, but not badly enough to redo it.  I know what I did wrong, and the 2nd sock will be better).

It looks baggy on the sock blocker because…the sock blocker is clearly not big enough.  It fits MY foot perfectly.  Last night, I figured out how many more stripes I need before the second Fair Isle section, but I can’t remember now what I decided.  A few more, anyway.

We let the boys stay up late to watch the Men’s Halfpipe.  Those snowboarders are absolutely crazy.  Mark said that he’s tried the halfpipe at the ski place he and the boys go to.  He thought he’d gotten pretty high when he went 2 feet above the rim.  That Shaun White was, what, 20 feet up in the air?  Wow.