Spinning Sue

Saturday Sky

Saturday Sky

There is something wrong with the sky.

Its a funny colour and there's this odd golden glow over everything...

OMG!! The end of the world is nigh!

(Do you think I've missed blue skies and sunshine?)

Saturday Sky

Today's sky is a cheat! I took this photo last night because the full moon rising was such a spectacular sight. Just as well I had a nice photo waiting because today's sky is grey and rainy again. At least we've been lucky with the floods although a man has died when his car was washed off a ford a few miles from where I live.

Saturday Sky

Saturday Sky

Saturday Sky

I took this pic at about 5:50am because the mist looked lovely. Its still hazy and quite muggy.

Saturday Sky

Saturday Sky

Saturday Sky

What Mum always calls 'the best part of the day' - early evening sunshine and an almost cloud free sky. :-)

Errrr....

Yup - its socks.

I know I said I wouldn't be knitting any socks while I concentrated on a few other things but whaddaya know? I lied! ;-)

These were started on Saturday, 5th May and finished just over a week later on the 14th. They are the usual toe up, 60 stitch short row heel non-pattern only this time I used Wendy's new cast on. I like it and will use it again. The yarn is Opal Rainforest Doktorfisch knit on 2.5mm dpns. I started them because my cousin was visiting and I wanted something small and plain to knit so I could concentrate on catching up on all the gossip.

I love my cousin, she is one of the world's bestest people. I also taught her two kids to knit. George almost got it but Sophie was too easily distracted although convinced she would have knitted a teddy bear by the end of the day! Who knows if it will stick but at least they've had a go.

Next are a pair of socks for Mum for her birthday on June 8th. The pattern is the Bells & Whistles socks from IK Holiday Gifts 2006 and the yarn is Opal Uni colour #1411, quite a dark brown. I think I started these last Friday and finished the first sock yesterday, the second sock is already in progress. The pic on the right is a close up of the toe. I've wanted to do this toe for a while and like it even more now that I've knit it. This pattern is an absolute delight to knit and I will definitely be knitting a pair for myself.

Last sock - for my Sockapalooza 4 pal. I thought long and hard about what to do for this. My pal is easy-going about pattern but quite specific about colour and yarn. She wanted machine washable so I decided to go for Opal Feeling in colour #1703, shades of blue and black. The pattern I eventually settled on is 'Ridged Feather' from Charlene Schurch's 'Sensational Knitted Socks'. There's no rush for these as I need to have them done by mid-July so I can post them in time to arrive for August 2nd. Hint, hint - need long time to arrive at destination... ;-)

I did have a play with some other knitting. I initially cast on for a bottom up raglan for myself but it was ginormous rather too large! So I've re-calculated for a top-down this time and will cast on for it when I finish Mum's socks.

A rainbow picture from Monday.

Just because.

And that is the week that was! :-)