Good Morning Saturday!

Here it gets darker earlier every day , that is our clue for Autum ,, Heat is still too much mirjam

Good morning to you too, and here in Manitoba, it's been grey, cloudy and rainy for the best part of a week. I'm sick of it. We're supposed to get some sun tomorrow and I hope so. You could send some of your warmer weather up here ;>)

I have the Pomatomus socks on my list of things to do, but have to look through my stash first to see if there's anything suitable in there to make them with. I want to try Cookie A's Monkey socks too.

I still have 3 prs of socks on needles, so MUST finish them first, along with the Peacock Feathers shawl - which is coming along very nicely. I'm almost at the end of Chart 7, then the only thing left is the border chart and the crochet edging. Can't wait - I love this pattern! Next shawl up is the Hanami, and I can't wait to get going on it too. So many patterns and so much yarn - not enough time!!!!!! (giggle).

Shelagh

Shellagh-That peacock shawl is too gorgeous for words. That's on my *some day* list.

Hesera-don't feel bad about your Pomotomus socks. I spent 4 1/2 hours in a post op drug induced haze staring at the sock I had just finished for my son. I could NOT make that Kirshner stitch work to save my soul! Then, when my sister called late at night, I picked it up and did it just like that with out thinking! Grrrrr. I don't know how my mind works or doesn't! Marie and the cats

It's Sunday morning for me and despite it being Spring in my hemisphere it's a horrible stormy mess outside and I got up long enough to grab the lap top and return to bed. I got some lovely vintage mags to add to my collection this week, so I plan to flick though those and feast my eyes on the glamorous knits of 1949.

VP

That reminds me that I used one of those patterns to make a pair of spiral socks, it was fun and I might use them for bedsocks when camping.

The other day I was reading book which wouldn't have been my choice but my recently dead mother had written that it was the nicest she'd ever read so I thought I might get to know her better. Part of it is set during the second world war and some of the characters were knitting 'comforts' for soldiers. The heroine said of one friend that she wasn't bright enough to learn to turn a conventional heel but that she had a spiral pattern for socks which fitted whichever way they were worn and that if a heel wore through the sock could be donned another way so that the hole would be on the top of the foot.

You never know, it might have been true, that spiral socks were knitted for soldiers.

A bit of history anyway!

Mary

Yes indeed, a good number of the spiral sock patterns I have come across are pitched as things to make soldiers.

What was the name of the novel Mary?

VP