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Jul. 16th, 2005 01:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
treeskinFilling third tank. Truck returned the pencil it ate earlier, but not the sock needles. Oddness. Am halfway done with the foot of the current sock (the other is still stuck at "heel flap done"). Am knitting much slower now...between two and a half days of knitting in the truck, and hoeing weeds on Wed, and gardening last night, my hands ache. Not to that "numb enough to work at my previous speed" point, which is good and bad--good, long-term, but bad in terms of simply getting the progress done that I wish.
Talked to By a little bit ago. He's working on loading up the truck at Albert's job, then he's home to sit in the AC for a while.
I *think* I've got the design for By's firebird socks done...a stylized firebird, sitting at the ankle of the sock, with the tail falling onto the foot, and the wings wide enough to spread around to the back of the leg. I may do some sort of key pattern to fill in the rest of the back, and foot, maybe something dramatic and Persian. By had shades of blue in mind, on a dark background, so now I'm wondering if I could actually manage 3 colors per row on some of this. It'd be ever so much cooler if I could. Hmm.....must also print out more graph paper, at a smaller size, so I can get the whole @#@#$ chart on one page.
Talked to By a little bit ago. He's working on loading up the truck at Albert's job, then he's home to sit in the AC for a while.
I *think* I've got the design for By's firebird socks done...a stylized firebird, sitting at the ankle of the sock, with the tail falling onto the foot, and the wings wide enough to spread around to the back of the leg. I may do some sort of key pattern to fill in the rest of the back, and foot, maybe something dramatic and Persian. By had shades of blue in mind, on a dark background, so now I'm wondering if I could actually manage 3 colors per row on some of this. It'd be ever so much cooler if I could. Hmm.....must also print out more graph paper, at a smaller size, so I can get the whole @#@#$ chart on one page.
