Knitters don't watch Letterman?

Annie Modesitt is the only knitter I've seen comment on Letterman's disbelief that custom-made socks exist. I expected outrage, campaigns to send him handknit socks, but I guess knitters don't watch Letterman.

So there's a disturbing knitting of sexy underthings trend about. This thong (fourth from the bottom) looks downright comfy in comparison to this (crocheted) one. I swear, even the mannequin looks uncomfortable. That thing's gauge is four stitches per inch, y'all.

So, do I make a second sock with this cable or rip it out and try something else, like Broadripple, that might make better use of the color changes?

Mini knitting

The New York Times site is being wiggy right now, but through it yesterday I found out about an art exhibit featuring knitting and lace. Here are some tiny gloves. I knit some mini Jaywalkers last night, not that you can tell what the pattern is.The new Blogger won't resize my photos to fit the browser window anymore. I wrote to the help people and have received nothing.

Update: OK, if you click on an image and it's huge and you want to fit it all on one screen, right click the huge image and select "view image." This takes you from a huge image hosted at blogger to an image that will resize to fit the window, hosted at google. No idea what you should do on a Mac. And bloggers having this problem should remove the "-h" from "s1600-h" in the html code per these instructions. Fix this please, Blogger!

It's no fun to be woken up by a chainsaw two days in a row. At least this morning it was an hour and a half later than it was yesterday, and a few more feet away from the bedroom, too. Also no fun is forgetting how to do something you've done dozens of times before. I had to redo a heel several times but am finally back on track. One time I sat down to knit and couldn't remember how to cast on, which just made my jaw drop. I can't remember if I needed to look it up or if I remembered on my own.

This is Blue Moon Fiber Arts STR lightweight in Scottish Highlands. It is a very nice yarn. I see why so many people are devotees of the STR. It rarely splits or catches on the needles and is springy, soft, and buttery. It held up pretty well to me having to unknit and reknit the heel mumble times. I have a cable running down each side even though you can't really see it. I didn't want to do a plain sock but the yarn was too busy for much else.

I never posted a picture of the finished Fleece Artist socks, so here they are:I tried one of the Yarn Harlot's tricks on one of these socks. It's supposed to eliminate ladders but I didn't find it effective so I modified it to something that worked better for me. Once I put it on my foot, however, it gapped anyway.So I think the best option for me is to use more needles, which I was already doing.

Why I can't comment

Several blogs won't let me comment. I think they're all WordPress blogs. I get an error message saying "this file cannot be used on its own." I could probably fix the problem by disabling my firewall or anti-virus software, but I am not willing to do that, for obvious reasons. The bloggers could fix the problem themselves, but that's unlikely.

Sock scam

If you haven't already, go read about a bank's stupid decision that a sock kit club must be a scam.

I have three skeins of BMFA wool sock yarn (all lightweight) purchased at last year's Black Sheep Gathering. Now may be the perfect time to finally try it out.

Clumsy

In the past ten days, I've bruised one knee in two different run-ins with semi-stationary objects, hurt my toe, and today I hit my head on the dining room table trying to pick up a jigsaw puzzle piece. I would love to sit on the couch in PJs and knit with Buffy on in the background, but I have work to do and don't really have a project I can easily jump back into. I finished my pink Fleece Artist short-row socks a few days ago. The only things I have on the needles are ankle socks I'm unsure I want to keep and my husband's sweater I haven't touched since...2001? Shall I say 2007 will be the year I finally finish that thing?

Here are some socks completed a while ago but not photographed: Knit Picks self-striping, TrekkingXXL, and Knit Picks Essential in the Orchid Socks pattern.