Right now I'm with the fam on vacation in San Diego, where my dad's brother lives.
Some momentous knitterly moments to occur on the trip: yesterday I finished the second sleeve for Thermal! and the button placket. So now I need to pick up stitches and knit the collar, and weave in approximately 11,232,435 ends, block, and I'm finished! Wild!
I also tore out the Thermal-patterned kneesock I was working on. As I got further up the leg it became clear that I had a tighter gauge on the Valley Yarn Franklin than I did on the Gloss from KnitPicks, and that the way the pattern stretched out around the leg was pretty dissastisfying.
So I yanked that sucker out and am going to do something else with the yarn. A LOT of something elses, because I have a hell of a lot of yarn in that colorway. And maybe I will knit the Thermal socks at some point. I'd certainly like to, Candice's are super cute.
In the meantime, though, yesterday we were wandering around La Jolla and I just happened to stumble upon a knitting store. (and when I say "just happened" I mean that I looked up all the yarn stores in the San Diego area before we flew across the country.) Anyway, they had the Kureyon Sock yarn and it looked SO PRETTY. I mentioned to one of the women working there that it was so beautiful but I didn't really like the way it felt, and she told me it softens up when you knit it, and pulled out a half finished fingerless glove made out of the stuff, and it WAS softer! It was really nice!
Then I blacked out, but when I left the store I had a ball of it and some vintage Susan Bates doublepointed 1s. (they had a basket of vintage knitting needles selling for the original price, so these were $1.35, and also PINK.)
...picture quality is crap, for which I apologize.
Anyway, I'm thinking Jaywalkers.
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