“That feeling, goes stealing, down to my shoes…”

What’s this?

It’s the foot of my Jaywalker sock. I realised when I reached the instep shaping that I had knit the zig-zag pattern all around, wheras it’s supposed to be plain on the sole. I realised this last Wednesday or Thursday and deliberated for a while on what to do, if anything.

I wasn’t keen on walking on the ridges formed where the zig-zag changed direction, but I wasn’t keen on ripping right back to the toe either. So I removed the toe and ripped out the bit of instep shaping I’d done. The remaining tube is going to be grafted on when I reach the ankle.

That meant going back to the start. (I did consider trying to save the short-row toe, but it takes me about half an hour to one and I reckoned trying to save this one at the same time as saving the tube would take me longer.

But what’s going on here?

Two toes. Inspired by Lynne, I’m going to knit two socks at once. Not on two circulars, however. Just stage by stage.

And now, what the heck is this?

Last year, before I headed os, I knit myself up a cover for my camera. This was my first attempt. The tube was a few cm longer when I abandoned it. I decided that sock yarn wasn’t thick enough to protect my camera against me dropping it or accidentally turning it on through the knitting, and the tube was too small anyway.

On Friday I finally caught up with my techno-savvy friends and bought an i-pod nano. I’m having allergy shots, which means each week I have to spend an hour in the doctor’s waiting room in case I have a bad reaction. It just seemed the perfect time and place to listen to knitting podcasts. And they play 3MP.

Of course, my nano needed a cover. When I dragged out my sock yarn leftovers there was a ready-made tube exactly the right width. With holes for drawstrings and all. I just ripped a few cm off the bottom, grafted it closed, crocheted a drawstring and knit an i-cord wrist strap.

It occured to me this morning that both the nano cover and Jaywalker socks qualify for June Project Spectrum bluey goodness. So I’ve done a woven, crochet, photographic and (soon) knitted item. The other two creative outlets I thought I’d include were jewellery and cooking. July is purple. August in neutrals/black&white. Hmmm.