Lanam Facio

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Pattern: Standard toe, with the heel of the Toe-Up Socks with a Difference. Standard stretchy bindoff.
Yarn: Ellen’s Half Pint Farm Merino/Nylon Sock
Needles: Size 1
Size: 16 toe to 64 foot
Amount of Yarn Used: 72 g
Source of Yarn: Booth at Rhinebeck 2008
Modifications: Standard grafting of the two patterns.
Thoughts: I finished them one week too late to wear a year after I’d gotten the yarn, but the knitting was all done in time for Sunday of Rhinebeck 2009.
I like the look of it; I can’t wait to see how it will wear.

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One good thing always comes out of long meetings, no matter what the discussion is about or how it goes: socks.


I’m a bit over the halfway point of the rib of the second sock. There were three of us knitting at the meeting; one on a baby blanket, one on a sweater, and me on these. Sometimes I think meetings would greatly benefit if everyone were issued knitting at the door. People would certainly be calmer, and there would be more warmth in the world.

(This meeting was a good meeting; there were many more useful things besides the socks that came out of it. Some of the things we talked about just got me in a ruminating mood and made me compare it to less useful meetings where the socks are the only good bits.)

On Saturday, Caleb and I went to Smith's Castle, one of the early European settlements in RI. The grounds are beautiful; it overlooks a bit of harbor and has some lovely gardens. They also had two nice samplers on display, one from the 1760s and one from the 1820s.

I'd love to become a docent at a historic site someday; it strikes me as possibly one of the best things in the world to get to dress up in historic clothes and teach people cool stuff about history. It's too bad that the Romans never made it too New England.

I worked on the sock there and back, as well as while we were walking around the house: