Wednesday night, around 10 pm I started to feel a little sick. Sinus pressure and sore throat. At 1 am I woke up completely miserable, and ended up having to miss out on Olivia’s field trip to the tide pools at Mukilteo Beach yesterday. I had a fever of 102, and I wanted to die most of the day. I seem to be better today. No fever, but my sinuses are still sore and congestion is moving into my chest. Bummer. This sort of thing isn’t supposed to happen in JUNE! Of course, it doesn’t really look like June.

But making lemonade from lemons, I have dinner in the crockpot already, figuring I’d take advantage of the little bit of energy I have this morning, and the cool day to make some Hamburger Barley soup.

So far, Clark is healthy. I pray he stays that way and doesn’t catch this, because if he gets it, we’re ALL going to be miserable.

Thanks for the tips on sock knitting. I don’t know which method I’ll try, but I’ve been thinking about testing one or both on Christmas stockings. I want new stockings this year and the larger yarn might help me out in the beginning while I get used to using circulars. As I said yesterday, I like doing two socks at the same time, but I prefer doing each part of the sock one at a time. I do one cuff, then the other, one leg, then the other, one heel flap….. So I need two sets of whatever I choose to use. But if I start out with Christmas stockings, I can use the larger circulars that I already have, and see which way I want to do it. Make sense?

The trouble is designing the stockings. In our new house, the style we’ve been going for is Modernism, except that we’ve broken one of the “rules”, which is a limited color palette. We have lots and lots of color in our house, but I’d still define our style as somewhat Modern. As I’ve been thinking about stitch patterns and colors that might fit in our living room, I’m not coming up with much. So I went to this website, looking for inspiration for graphing out some intarsia insanity to make a retro looking fabric. Like this, or this.

I can’t decide if it’ll be really cool, or really stupid.

And there’s also the choice of fiber. It needs to be the right fiber, and I don’t know what that is yet.