Just Socks

With business in Stuttgart today, I took the train in a different direction. Even with a hike to the Straß stop, the train, the U5 and the U3. It still took me less time than the trip to Landstuhl. Since the DH was stopping by the kids’ school on his way home from the Bodensee (school ends next week and all three had more than a few items….) to pick up “stuff,” I was able to cage a ride home. The company in the car was lovely.

Construction on the A6 meant that it took almost two hours to drive home. A trip from downtown that takes 40 minutes on the train. Go figure, I can’t. But then they keep the slow trucks off the train tracks.

Socks

The Serpentines are done. I added detail on the heels. one with cables just down the sides of the heel flap, the other with multiple cables. On that second sock I was smart enough to change from cabling every three rows to every four. Just think about doing cables on the purl row and you will understand my reasoning.
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Since I had plenty of the pink/purple/yellow Tofutsie left, I added a ball of gray to start Florenz – the July pattern from SKL.
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I have both legs completed and am ready to start on the heel flaps. I am trying to decide between a modified common heel, a regular strap heel (with plain or fancy stitch). Since I have several samples that I don’t like, I can play with them before tackling the real yarn.

Books

Exit Strategy by Kelley Armstrong. Not bad, a relatively quick read. But not up to the standard of her Otherworld Women books.

-Holly

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About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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One Response to Just Socks

  1. amanda j says:

    My goodness, cables are bad enough without trying to purl them. The finished socks look fantastic, as always.

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