flyinmysoup

so i think that i've gotten things here fixed up enough that i can post an actual blog entry--not just a test one to see how the templates behave. there are still a few wrinkles that i want to iron out, but for now, i'm feeling fair to middlin' about how this new blog is looking. it's been an adventure, let me tell you, and i'm definetly getting my money's worth out of the web page design class i took a couple of years ago! (and i thought i'd never need it...sheesh)

things have not been progressing on the HBDS. i attempted to do a row here and there, ya know, for a break between tweaking my CSS, and i think that it was all just too much for the brain. as of right now, i've cocked it up somehow...but it's that elusive sort of somehow that i can't really suss out. add to that the fact that i've come down with sinus ickiness (thank you, indiana weather). the fact that i've been running a temperature and have been slightly more loopy than normal isn't really all that condusive to a complex twisted stitch pattern shawl with a chart you have to watch like a hawk. *sob*
to satiate my need to knit, and the desire to not pull out my hair in frustration, i've started on the Flow Motion Socks (Cat Bohrdi's design) from the Fall 2006 VK. they're knit with a double strand of sock yarn, so they are working up really quickly. (of course, working something up on 6's instead of 0's will do that). i love the shaping on these--there are on side gussets; all the shaping takes place in a wedge on the top of the foot. it's nice to try new techniques in old favorites.

(sorry there are no pictures...that's one of the wrinkles set to be ironed!)