Friday Knitting Blog (01/27/2012)

So, did you miss me last week? I missed you. Tragically, though, after 2 feet of snow and an ice storm, the power grid around me collapsed like a bunch of broccoli (props if you know what movie that's from), and I was in the dark for a long time (Thursday morning 01/19 at 10 a.m. until Tuesday night 01/24 at about 9:30 p.m.). It mostly sucked. 

You'd think that trapped and unable to work, I'd have done a lot of knitting. You would be incorrect. I did a lot of reading. I did knit a little bit, I'm about halfway up the foot of a toe-up sock. I'll take a picture of it and show it off a little more when it's bigger. 

I do have a picture for you, though. I've been looking for a while now for comfortable shoes that will show off my hand-knit socks, and I found some. We were able to get out of the house for the last few days of the power outage, and so there was shopping done. Not grocery shopping; that came later after I had to dump all the food in my freezer and most of my fridge (no fun).

This is the shoe. Sixty Cruise by Clark's. I found them at J.C. Penney, and I love them. They're comfortable, not sneakers, and really show off my socks. In fact, I don't think I'd even try to wear these with anything on my feet other than hand-knit socks. They also aren't as expensive as some of the other shoes I was looking at (Dansko, Fluevog), which was a big plus. 

After the power came back, the mailman brought me the last yarn I need for the  Sheep Heid.

So ideally once I'm more caught up on things work related (I don't want to spend all my available PTO because of a power outage; I'd like to have some for actual vacation), I'll start knitting this lovely hat. There might have been more Felici in the box (and a sock blank and a small niddy-noddy), but it's hardly worth it to put in an order at Knit Picks for 1 little ball of Palette. It would have been so lonely in the shipping box all by itself. 

So next week, pictures of actual things I've been knitting. Promise.