Look! An Update!

I had nothing to do last night – it was my first complete down-time in… well, I haven’t blogged in over three weeks… so yeah, it’s been a while. I could have blogged last night. I could have done laundry, or cleaned my room, or cooked actual food. I thought about blogging. I really meant to. Instead, I decided I had to put one of these together with this…

I used the red, which I believe is the “Ruby River” colorway, and… wow. I’m either halfway done with the leg, or just about ready to start the heel flap, depending on whether I decide to make a long sock (following the pattern) or short (because that’s what I usually make). The pattern is so beautiful and complex and wonderful and clearly written and gorgeously charted that I kind of want to make the sock longer to show it off, but then I worry that I might not wear it if it’s much longer than my usual. I’ll probably make a decision on that in rehearsal tonight, since I’ll be at the point where I’ll have to either start another repeat, or the heel flap.

I also have to decide whether I’m going to make the patterned-flap heel called for in the pattern, or just a basic heel. It’s a tough decision, because the patterned flap is beautiful and works perfectly with the rest of the sock, but I know from my other Bearfoot socks (one of which I’m wearing right now) that the heel patterning will felt out very quickly. My socks tend to get a lot of spot-felting on the back of the heel where they rub against my work- and dance- shoes, and the Bearfoot seems particularly susceptible to this. But it’s so wonderfully soft and comes in such gorgeous colors! Did I mention (no, of course I didn’t; I haven’t blogged in forever, shame on me) that I bought another three skeins of Bearfoot two weeks ago?

I have been a negligent blogger, and I apologize. The new beau is immensely distracting, and that is the only excuse I am able to offer. Oh, also concerts and dances and folk festivals and birthdays and parties and… yeah. I’ll try to do better… I might even have time to take some pictures on Friday, unless I’m making pineapple upside-down cake as my birthday present to myself. And if I do that, I’ll definitely take pictures of setting the cake on fire. That’s the best part.