I'd rather be...

Anywhere but here. I have been sneezing alot at work lately. Just at work. Now my eyes are burning. My team lead is actually wondering if I'm allergic to the place.

It's nice out. It's nice at home. It's not nice at work. Not awful, just not an appealing place to be on a sunny and finally warm-ish spring morning.

Here's some progress of late:



So, yeah, it doesn't look like much but it was a couple of hours of my time sewing 2.5 x 21 inch strips together into 3-colour 6.5 x 21 inch strips that look like KooKoo candy (am I showing my age? Anyone else remember KooKoos?). It would only have been 90 minutes of my time, but I did indeed sew one wrong sides together. That took talent, considering I'm working with Batiks. Batiks don't have "sides". Except for exactly TWO pieces of my fabrics that have a print on the batik - one metallic and very obvious, and one a subtle watermark. I somehow sewed the obvious metallic together wrong side out. That took work.

Sunset Sock V.2 has had its second build attempt rejected and is now beginning release Sunset Sock V.2.2, as I frogged it again after concluding that garter stitch foot bottoms just won't work, the top and bottom lengths end up TOO different and I can't get rid of the bunching. It worked somehow on the Forest Weave sock (Sissy! Send picture before something happens to it!) but I think that was because the basket weave stitch included enough garter that the top was shorter too. But garter bottom and ribbed top don't go. So we're doing a reverse stockinette bottom, rib top. The good news is that might go faster (a bit. It's still 800+ teeny-tiny stitches per inch). Monsoon Socks the Second are progressing slowly, I'm into the foot of sock 1. Sunset is my walk-around sock, and Monsoon is my desk sock right now. I think I will take both next weekend when I'm away at the Yoga show as I'll have two hours of train time plus evenings in hotels (or out at yarn shops!) to work on them. And I don't want to travel with Stormwater, which is now somewhere 'round row 28, as it's too delicate and perfinicky to work on without complete focus - and even then I had to tink a whole row when I lost a yarnover on the 3rd stitch and didn't notice. I sure hope it turns into lace like the picture. At the moment it looks like moldy spaghetti.

Back to making myself look busy.