I did manage to blog every day in July, and then vanished -- poof! We were traveling, visiting my family and going to the single nerdiest place I have ever been, and the two options felt equally weird: either to tell you that my house was empty, or to blog about unrelated stuff when I was mostly thinking about traveling.
But we are back, and thinking about what comes next.
Part of what comes next is that Pete is leaving for college on Thursday, which I cannot think about without getting a little weepy. You'd think it would get easier to send them off by the time you got to the fourth sendoff, but you'd be wrong about that.
After a long stretch of not-knitting, I took a knitting bag with me on our trip and cranked out some socks. Check out the pair I finished this morning. (I am calling them a pair, but they are fraternal twins, not identical.)
These are made from a Zauberball: spun from high-quality materials, dyed in gorgeous saturated colors. The yarn is a delight to knit. I am not 100% sold on their degree of matchiness, though. If you see the whole pair you can tell that one sock is approximately the inverse of the other, but when I wear them with pants it will just look like I am wearing mismatched socks.
It had been so long since I had done much knitting that my enjoyment of the process took me by surprise: the pleasure of cranking out tidy rows of even stitches, the magic of a heel turn, the satisfaction of a perfect fit.
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