If you find a non-knitter that is both sweet and smart enough to go to a local yarn shop and buy you locally hand-painted sock yarn and send it to you as a surprise, you should marry that person. Now, if you’re already married to a boy and said person is a girl and it just so happens that she prefers boys also, then you should get your husband’s brother to marry her. On the off chance that this brother was smart enough on his own to realize what a total fracking gem of a person she is and snap her up right away, then you are the luckiest person alive.

…and having just decided that I am the luckiest person alive, I’m off to buy a lottery ticket.

First, I really enjoy dropping stitches. It’s the same feeling I used to get when a teacher would suddenly announce that a test was open-book. Legal cheating?!? wheeee!!! So, I’m on my just dropped some stitches high, and I’m knitting along and the pattern says to knit the heel flap. About halfway through the heel flap, I realize that the stockinette fabric is thin. Too thin for a heel – these will be worn out in no time and since they’re a gift, that simply will not do.


Now, I’m, at the very least, an intermediate sock knitter, so I get a little smug and rip back the heel flap, I read a little bit of the The Knitter’s Book of Socks and begin again with a lovely slip stitch flap. I finish that up, admire my handy work and then go back to the pattern to see what she has planned next…

…only to realize that the pattern ACTUALLY says that I should have done a slip stitch heel to begin with. Nice. At this point, I realize that I have two pattern reading modes:
– Test and complex knitting mode, where I read every comma, every word, every stitch.
– and evidently pattern scan mode where I assume I know what it says. In case you’re wondering, this is not the most efficient way to knit.

Mine raveled here

Ps. To see what other folks are working on, go check out Tami’s Amis and Small Things Yarn Along (I’m listening to/reading “The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive” audio book – so far, I give it a 6.5/10).

Tags: Claire de Lune, Dizzy Lettuce, knit, lichen, Night of the Living Socks, sock yarn, Walking Dead, WIP Wednesday

1. First, the Iron Man theme song is my favorite thing about the franchise and I wanted more.

2. Adam Pally (Max from Happy Endings) was wearing a stranded sweater under an unbuttoned flannel and jacket, but he was only in the movie for one hot minute, so finding a pic of him wasn’t feasible (translation: I tried). Here’s something similar, but the one Adam was sporting had a lighter, more airy pattern that was also a bit less snowflakey. I’ve never considered wearing a flannel over a sweater and I’m not sure I’m a fan of that look.

3. Iron Man’s young helper friend (Ty Simpkins) was wearing a pretty cute knit hat at one point, but sadly, I cannot seem to locate a pic of that either (boo!). This one has the same aura, but Ty’s did not have a pom pom and had a brim that was rolled up.

4. This movie had a shot of the Audi e-tron and it is nice. But, if it were me and I had somewhere between $100-200k to spend on a car, I’d still go for a Tesla.

5. I digress. Overall, the movie was quite good for a third film. Plenty of nice action sequences and special effects. As a smart geeky type, Iron Man is definitely on my preferred list of superheroes and I continue to think Robert Downey, Jr. fits the role well. Gwyneth Paltrow is Pepper Potts. Warning: this movie is likely to make you want to go for a jog – everyone looks great. And finally, I am always amazed that Guy Pearce makes as good a bad guy as he does a good guy. He’s versatile to say the least.

Tags: e-tron, hat, Iron Man 3, knit, knitting movie review, sweater, Tesla