Y Control

12May09

You can tell it’s summer. The cats seem vaguely annoyed that we’re home all the time interrupting their naps, Aidan is heavy into a new video game, and the joy of being done with the semester is offset by the anxiety of knowing the next steady paycheck is months away. I’m just glad that it isn’t ridiculously hot yet. 70 and sunny is the kind of weather I can get behind.

I took the weekend off and managed to get a fair amount of knitting done. I’m an inch away from the center of the back on the Whisper Cardi, which means I’m close to the part where I have to do some kind of crazy back gathering. I’m also close to halfway done with the the waist shaping I’m doing on the hot pink cardigan. And since I started reading for my thesis yesterday, I pulled out the long-neglected Chevron Scarf to work on in between brief reading breaks.

But I started to get bored with all of that stockinette on Sunday, so I wound the Arcaunia Itata I bought last week into a ball and cast on for a new pair of socks.

This is Cookie A’s Marlene pattern (Rav link), which is in the Fall/Winter 2008 issue of Knit.1–a pattern that Aidan helped me pick out to use with this yarn. I am thoroughly pleased with the pattern/yarn combination. This pattern, like Cookie A’s Pomatomus pattern, is basically a variation of 1×1 twisted ribbing shaped with decreases and yarn overs. It looks fancy, but it’s easy. And there are two things about this sock that amaze me: first, that the 1×1 twisted ribbing would seem less tedious than plain stockinette; and second, that this pattern knits up so quickly. I managed to knit the entire leg of the sock up to the point where I need to begin the heel flap–that’s just short of seven pattern repeats and about 7.5-8 inches of knitting–before the end of the day on Sunday.

Now, if only reading Judith Butler when that quickly, I’d be golden.

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Tags: Socks, WIPS