But not at quite the same rate. Till
now, I was getting at least 2 stripes done (from yellow, past green
to cherry, or the like)
Yesterday, reading cut into my knitting
time, as I knew it would. The Red Queen –ie. Margaret
Beaufort is the great grand-daughter of Katherine Swynford—John of
Gaunt's third wife (and true love it is thought). Katherine's story
(Katherine, by Anya Seton) is one of my favorite books. So many more
historical details than Philippa Gregory's books (which I also like,
and have read a good number
of)--Margaret is mother to Henry the VII and the start of the Tudors/and the end to the war of the roses.
But I am liking these socks, and book
or no book, I did work on them. Not quite 2 full stripes—but all
of the gusset! (the left sock in the image has a cherry red stripe,
but the striping is still offset a rounds, and the right sock doesn't
have a stripe). It's a nice deep one deep gusset—I have somewhat
high insteps. With the gusset done, the sole of the sock measures a
full 3 inches. I find 9 inches is about the right length for a sock
for me, so one third done. More than a third done, really—the last
2 inches are the toe (with the ever decreasing and quicker to knit
rows!)--and before that, there will be 2 round stripes of the 3
contrasting solids. So from the 9 inches minus 3 (done) and minus
another 2.5(toe), --the foot is half done!
A couple more days of getting two
stripes knit—simple easy knitting with no thought of "do I decrease
this row?" (or did I decrease last row?) will go fast!
I don't see them
being finished till Monday or Tuesday, next--(or about day 8 of
knitting, and day 28 of the month) –Which is cutting it close. But
it's far better than January's socks that didn't get done till
February was 2/3rd over!
On the agenda today, is blocking my
leafy yoked vest. It's been complete-- except for the blocking-- for
over 2 weeks—it's time. Besides, Nancy (of Sunday knitting at
Panera's) is impatient to see it!
I haven't done anything but the cast on
to the 3rd pair of secret socks. (Well a bit of
documenting the process, but not the knitting.)
And my weight remains, (stubbornly!)
the same. No back tracking, but no progress either!
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