I went to upload my Hobbitland pictures only to discover that my camera battery was dead. I grabbed an old battery that had just enough juice to upload the pictures, but I haven't resized them for the blog yet. They'll be up someday, I promise!

In other news, it is officially reached "effing cold" temperature here in Maine... in other words, I had to scrape frost from my windshield. I mentioned before that my body temperature is on some other scale- I'll let y'all in on a secret: I run my spaceheater here at work all summer long. I am almost always cold... at night you'll find me bundled up under 4 quilts. However, I am also wicked stubborn and will wear sandals as long as I can in the year. I love knitting socks and wearing them at home, but hate having them on all day long. I feel constricted.

But it is now officially "effing cold" and that means the socks are on. These socks:





The Specs: Hedera pattern by Cookie A, Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock (don't remember which colorway), size 2 needles.

I am one of those weird sock people that likes pooling in the colors... I think it makes them really neat looking when next to each other. The pattern is really easy- the pattern repeat is memorized quickly. It just took me so long to finish them because of everything else I had on the needles.

And speaking of, here is another finished project... one that I haven't even blogged about. This is my first sweater that needed real seaming (I love you raglan!), and although the knitting is super easy, I admit that I still hate seaming as much as I did when I started. I'd rather Kitchener all day long than seam. Anyway...



The Specs: The Garter Stitch Wee Pocketed Cardi pattern from Lionbrand, Caron Simpy Soft in dark blue, size 9 and 10 needles, cute buttons with a dog in a wagon on them!

I really do love this sweater- the cute little pockets are great! And the buttons!

And finally for today... my current project. A little ways back I got some of Dave's Cabin Cove sock yarn and knew immediately what one of the colors was going to be. Jaywalkers. But not just your everyday Jaywalkers, these were going to be 80s Retro Jaywalkers. This colorway has hot pink, blue, yellow and green, and it totally reminds me of the bright colors I used to wear when I was growing up. I cannot begin to express how much I love these socks and they aren't even done.





Most of the people that have seen them comment on how the socks are "too bright" and "my eyes are burning!" and other such nonsense. All a bunch of haters, I'm telling you. I can't wait to wear them!