Scrappy Socks #1 are done!

As you can see, I ran out of the dark blue yarn on the last cuff. Did it matter? Not a bit.

I love these socks and can’t wait to knit another pair. So much so that last night I started knitting up a lingering ball of Regia self-patterning yarn I had lost interest in. It’s all reds and burgundys and I want to knit a red-based scrappy sock next.

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Last Friday I told my mum I had nothing planned for the weekend. By Saturday morning I was wondering how I was going to get everything done.

The most fun part of the weekend was going to Sticks and Stones‘ house and meeting up with the girls from my spinning class for spinning and chat. Since I haven’t spun since last year and would probably make a huge clutz of myself, I took lots of fos I wanted to alter. I did take a drop spindle to work with once my alteration work was done, but I didn’t get all the alteration work done. (I got more done when I got home, too – that’ll be another post.)

Lots of beautiful work was shown off, including some delightful orange socks and a very cute baby cap, both made from handspun. Homes were offered for all the leftover stash-for-adoption. I got the itch to teach sock knitting. And I want to buy a wheel just like Natasha’s.

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One of the unexpected chores for the weekend was cutting and polishing our new flooring. Here’s a shot for those of my friends nagging for pics:

The ‘wood plank’ vinyl that needs polishing is in the hall, the super stain-resistant polyflor is in the room at the end (my workroom, where I hope to have many arty crafty adventures… when not hard at work writing).

We managed to get through the ‘cutting’ stage last night, which was easy until it came to the ‘wash off the residue’ bit. That took so long I sent the beau up the street to buy another mop so we could both get stuck in. Today we have to do the polishing bit.

See? A weekend so busy it gained an extra day.