Knitting progress and new header

A storm was coming in. This was taken over the Thanksgiving weekend, at Joshua Tree, a few years ago. The sky was amazing! I'll go back to the flowers, which I truly liked but I am thinking about Thanksgiving (for now) and all the decorating, etc.


Knitting report: here we go.

That manly/beastly is going so slowly but it is getting longer! I can only knit a row or two a day when all the cables are drunkenly passing over each other, then there is a stretch of about 6 rows that are almost straight knitting, well, as much as an Aran ever gets. The cables that cross are bunched up, so they look funny but I promise that they are doing what they should be doing. The only part of the pattern I don't like is that part. Next time, if there is one, that part will be swapped out for something that looks more attractive to me. That pattern runs down the middle of the sleeves.. Oh Joy!

The eye candy socks and scarf are plain and sweet! The socks are on 5" DPNs which I never thought would be long enough. I am really enjoying knitting with them and am even thinking of shortening some of the other needles.

But, it's cheap enough to just buy another short set at a nearby LYS. Vi had said she liked them a long time ago, but I thought they would be too short for my hands. But they aren't! They don't poke my palms at all, in fact they work out much better for knitting the beginnings of the sock. With longer needles it was always like I was wrestling with a porcupine. My hands are small enough that the needles are longer than the palm of the hand even when I'm knitting away.

Kara, it's not pink! hehe The background is more like orange fizz. I can't get a good pink, but I'll keep trying. ;)

PS ... I might throw in some decorative stitches in the sock leg, here and there. Because of tender feet, I don't do the instep in anything but a flat stockinette, having learned this the hard way. The pattern stays embedded in my foot for a lengthy stay! hehe

Storm Sky Watcher, so this makes sense later when the header is changed...