Eastburn Adventures

Well, not quite. We got back from Asheville late Saturday, and after 27 five loads of laundry and a long nap, I was ready for work this week. It's always so hard coming home from vacation, because there's double the work to recover. I haven't yet figured out how to make that better. :0

No real knitting news to report. I have some cool stash enhancements that I need to update here and on Ravelry, but I haven't taken the photos yet. Also, I scored some Wollmeise in The Loopy Ewe's latest Sneak Up - and I think I'm officially a Loopy Groupie now! WhooHoo! (Don't tell Robert - he's scared enough of the stash!)

I also bit the bullet and ripped out the heels on the dreaded Monkey socks - again. :-( But I think I know what I was doing wrong, thanks to Zarah. Except when I was trying to knit the second heel in Asheville, I couldn't figure out how to get to the second sock on the Magic Loop, so I slipped the first sock to waste yarn and knit the second, which actually worked out quite well. Then I put the first sock back on the needles. Except, somehow I think I got them on in reverse order, or backwards, or something, so now that I've ripped them, the working yarn is on the wrong side. I think I'm slipping one back to waste yarn - again.

I don't know why I'm having such trouble with these socks. Okay, so toe up is new for me, Magic Loop is new for me, and two at once is new for me. Maybe next time I shouldn't be so ambitious about learning new techniques!

Anyway, my plan is to finish the socks by Tuesday. Yep, I have a deadline. Because Sunday, I'm flying out to Denver for another business trip, and planes and airports are very conducive to knitting. I'm only taking these socks and a couple of balls of Noro to work on some Lizard Ridge squares. That's it. If I don't have anything else with me, then I have to finish.

And for a final Asheville pic - it always seems like wherever I go I find some crazy squirrel. Everytime we'd start to open the door to the deck, he'd run over and put his paws on the window and want to come into the cabin! Funny, he doesn't look like he's starving!