France, we have progress!
Well, I couldn’t very well say, “Houston, we have a problem,” now could I? First of all, I’m not in Houston right now, which leads to secondly, there is no problem! Yes, many of my problems can be solved by just leaving Houston, it seems. I’ve suspected this all along and I’m glad to get some confirmation.
Anyway …
So while I sat on the plane from Houston - George Bush to Paris - Charles De Gaulle, I fiddled with my yarn and new needles and cast on the pattern I had quickly printed before leaving as an alternative to the toe-up @#%$ards that I’d tried before. I will return to those some day, I really will. Just not until I’m sitting next to Adelle and she can tell me exactly what it is that I’m doing wrong with these socks.
Lo and behold, it worked. I knit knit knit for a few hours, only slightly troubled by the messy yarn cake that I wound out of this lovely yarn. It will definitely be re-wound once I’m home and before it goes out to my sock sister for completion. I knit and knit and knit … and finally fell asleep for several hours. This was momentous, because I never sleep on international flights. I guess the glass of champagne, little airplane bottle of wine, and two Excedrin PM finally worked. (Don’t start … for some reason medications and alcohol don’t affect me at all the same way as they do on the ground. They simply DON’T work on me. Last time I had prescription sleeping pills and was still wide awake for the entire flight!)
The pattern is fun, it is easy to memorize, and you just fly right through it. The cameraphone doesn’t show the colors well, but they are some pretty blues, greens, and greys. It’s more Blackwatch than what I’d think of as Lagoon, but oh well. :)
So my Sock Sister, if she’s figured out who I am, can rest assured that she will actually get a sock from me! I promise not to leave this one on the airplane.
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I am so glad that 1. You are using DPN’s and did not say anything bad, 2. You like the pattern, and 3. You miss me. Well, you did not say that, but I know you do. So there.