Wow! This week is flying by!

My poor spinning wheel is still in pieces in a pile on the floor, not good! Perhaps I’ll spend some time tonight working on her. There have been several evenings in the past week or so where I really would have liked to sit down at the wheel and so some spinning but couldn’t . . . . something I’m going to have to fix very soon.

I did work on the kids socks that I’m using to try out a new sock technique. I’m doing them in a nice, plain vanilla Regia sock yarn so its easy to see the stitches and see what is happening. None of those funky striped things for this project. Once I understand what is happening and how this goes together then I can play with stripes or stitch patterns, but for now I want to be able to see what is going on. I turned the heel last night. It was interesting. Very different then the pattern I have been using. My conclusion is that it is a much more technical heel that what I’ve been doing. I’m curious to compare the fits on both heels to see how much difference there ulitmately is, though I can’t compare it personally as these socks aren’t going to fit me. I’m going to have to borrow some little feet . . .

The best part about trying this pattern out on kids size socks is that it isn’t nearly as intimidating as trying it on my own size 9s or on DH’s size 10.5s. These are done on only 40 stitches and go nice and quickly and if I were to screw it up there is so little to it that frogging wouldn’t be a big deal. I may use this with my student. She is doing her first pair of socks now. I have her doing them toe up, two at a time on Addi’s using the same heel that I’ve been doing until now. She is almost ready to start the heels, perhaps tomorrow if she gets any time to work on them tonight . . . I think she is likely going to want to do 1-2 more pairs this way for the practice and to make it stick and then I’m going to have her do a kids pair top down on dpn with the “new” heels and toes I’m learning so she can compare techniques. . . . teaching can be so much fun, watching as something comes together in someones thought process and seeing that moment when the “get it” for the first time! This is something I may have to do more of in the future . . .

Still working on the baby blanket for my new niece or nephew . . . slow progress but I’m about 1/2 way through the 2nd skein. The way I figure it is if I just do even one pattern repeat a day I’ll be done with this before the weather really warms up and I can start the matching sweater . . . . Which I’ll have to design myself as the pattern didn’t come with a matching sweater . . . at least I have a very big gauge swatch to go by ;)

Well, back to my filing project . . . . Have a great day!