Down with walking pneumonia. It has been quite a sniffle-hacking cough-fest the past few days. Damn you cold, rainy gloom. Unfortunately, the work show must go on, so I really haven’t been able to just rest up. Whatever energy I have left has been spent doing this -
so I could turn this -
into this. There’s another one of those on the other side of the TV.
Turns out I can follow instructions (relatively speaking). Whatever didn’t fit together got a good whack and superglue reinforcement.
On another note, remember the not-so-secret purple project? Well, I finally finished them! Here’s a picture from Okee, who’s great to knit for because he makes the appropriate grateful and appreciative noises. And he actually wears/uses the hand-knits!
Pattern: purple-icious Rib and Cable socks by Nancy Bush in IK Fall 2005.
Yarn: Louet Opal in Violet 2453, a vibrant purple, almost exactly 2 balls. Size 2 DPNS.
I cast on 10 more stitches than the pattern called for because, hi! Plus-sized feet. Also continued the rib and cable pattern down the heel. The pattern has a nifty toe treatment which resulted in not-so-pointy toes. Yay! The yarn was really nice to work with, pretty soft and knitted up to a dense fabric. And it’s superwash too. I’d use this yarn again. Maybe a sweater? Hmmm…..
January 16, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Hey sicko, you finished the purple people eater socks! They look great.
Get better soon! That pneumonia thing is no fun. (done that before…ugh.)
January 16, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Plus sized!? Plus sized!? Maybe if you left off the “plus” stitches they wouldn’t be too big on me!
January 19, 2007 at 7:26 pm
The socks are looking good! I noticed that, since moving to TX from the northeast, I no longer get my once-yearly winter cold. Welcome to Erie, home of the winter colds! Now you can make lame jokes about how the weather/location/hockey pucks make you literally sick!
January 21, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Sorry to hear about the walking Pneu. Happened to me when I moved to Savannah. I think it is primarily a disorder affecting newly-hired faculty, because my colleagues experienced it also.
Andrea is knitting up a storm (anticipating the patter of little feet.)
A friend of ours visited from Chicgo. She later sent us a wonderful African fabric thingy.
You should file a complain with the Interstate Commerce Commission about your movers. You might also get some relief from the various state attorney generals involved.
If you get to feeling too bad, come down here and we will ply you with chicken soup.
Jim