So we’re home, after a long weekend in the beautiful NC mountains.  It was a long drive home, and we have created our own mountains here in the Knitnik house, specifically mountains of whites, darks, and delicates.  The unpacking is complete, the children are bathed and in bed, and I finally have time to take pictures of the Crusoe socks I finished en route on Thursday.  They are definitely fraternal twins – I’d even venture to say cousins, though I have triple-checked that the color numbers and dyelots are identical.  They are, however non-identical, absolutely gorgeous, if I do say so myself.  I really liked the Crusoe pattern, and got into the groove, though there were times that I swear I had knitted for an hour, and they didn’t appear to have grown at all.

As mentioned in the previous post, I took impossible amounts of yarn with me, because of course I am superhuman (perhaps even Wonder Woman, though I was always Dyna Girl when we played as children – sorry, digression), and can knit 5 pair of socks in a weekend.  Yeah, right.  I saw today a post on the Socknitters group referring to SIM – Socks In Mind.  I didn’t even really have socks in mind for the yarn I took, more like 5 pairs’ worth of yarn, about 15 patterns, and an indecisive streak a mile long.  I decided on the Kool-Aid dyed yarn that Tricia and I created, and began playing with a garter rib stitch.  I knitted about 2 inches, ripped out, knitted about 1.5 inches, ripped out again, then got serious.  Without the ripping, these socks would be done now, instead of just done to the ankle of #2, however I have achieved something I never thought I would – my own sock pattern.  When I mentioned to Mark that I thought I might have actually created a pattern, he insisted I publish it to the site.  So – IF sock #2 works as planned, and IF I find a good way to decipher my chicken-scratch notes, and IF Tricia will test-knit for me, I will publish the pattern here.  It’s nothing fancy, really, but I am a by-the-book, very mathematically inclined and pattern-driven person, so this is a HUGE jump for me.  I will probably name them (because of course coming up with a cool name is even more important than creating say, an actual pattern) something to do with the Dragon, since that’s where we went this weekend, and the colors bring to mind (gentle) flames.

OK, off to bed, because I have to go back to work tomorrow.  These 5-day weekends could be addictive!

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