Title? I got nuthin'...

I'm playing around with my design today...I really want a picture in the banner, but I can't seem to make that work and have a title up there.  I don't think I'm giving the Typepad folks enough money each month for that...what say you, Typepad users?  Am I missing the magic interface?

Sunday was all socks all the time.  Here is the state of the current Sockapaloooza Socks:  Ready to turn the heel.  I love them, I mean LOVE them.  But they are thick...even though I'm knitting them on 1.5's, they are chunky.  Cables.  Duh. Remember how I thought I might change them since she'll be getting them in May and she lives in the Southwest?  Yeah...wool, in the desert, in May.  Yuck. 

So I went cotton hunting. She says no pastels, and she's a 20 something -- kind of , well, way hipper than I am.  I came up with this.  These colors are kind of retro -- turquoise, lime and olive green, black, burnt orange...I really like them...but in a so ugly they're cool kind of way.  It's that Turtle Tracks pattern -- lace and cables -- really great in cotton.  This stitch gives the cotton stretch and memory that it doesn't have on it's own.    Mine are the best fitting, most comfortable socks I own.  She might like them.  What do you think?  Either way, I'll get a pair of socks I like out of the mix...or I'll send her both...Sheesh!  I am not very well-endowed in the decision-making department.

And here are the Jaywalkers. (I am so not a photographer!  I need to take a class!) I turned the heel Saturday during a very close basketball game of Dear Daughter's.  I can't watch those things!  And started the gusset while waiting to get my blood drawn this morning.  Man, those labs!  Before you worry, it's nothing - just the yearly labs my Dr. orders.  But, you know, you go in at 8 a.m. after carpool and there are like 20 older folks already there waiting.  And you have to go up the the window to give your name; then 45 mins. later they call you and you have to fill out all the forms; then 20 more mins. and you have to give your insurance card; and finally 10 mins. later you're in the chair.  I'm not faulting the gals working in the back, they were hustling...but man I was there for a long time considering I hadn't had any coffee yet!

I guess I should look on the bright side.  Guilt-free knitting time.  No Mount Laundry or dishes calling from the other room. 

Speaking of which. 

Comments

[alison]

Very nice socks! Love those Jaywalkers in the miniringel. Very cool!

[Carole]

Waiting in a doctor's office is such great knitting time - for exactly the reason you said. There's nothing else you could be doing except knitting.

[Laura]

Oh I love all three of the socks! I think the young hip desert dweller would LOVE the turtle tracks socks. The colors are so great anyone would love them - they're very similar to the colors I'm using for my Sockapaloooza socks. And your Jaywalker - WOWzeeee! Those really look striking in that stripe! Love 'em.

Nothin like having lots of time to kill at the doctor. Really makes your socks grow, eh? :)

[margene]

Great looking socks! I don't think you can have a header and a title. Your header must have the title within it.

[carmelnap]

Oohh!!! All the socks are pretty. I especially love those Jaywalkers. The stripes are perfect for that pattern. Wow!

[Diane]

All 3 socks look great. As someone who lives in a warm clime, I vote for the cotton ones for your pal. It looks very cool.

[Theresa]

An extra pair (or three) of socks never hurt anyone . . .

[trek]

Nice Jays! I'm working on designing a sock pattern myself right now and know how tough it can be - kudos to you!

[Birdsong]

Amazed you could focus on heel-turning at a close basketball game; I still make lots of the local high school games each season, even though my kids are all done with school, because I taught there 8 years, and I get so worked up screaming and cheering that I would lose track of anything but garter st :)