And it will all be over.  And, also, the sun will come out.

It’s done, so I can restart the second hose (sock?  I still need a singulative for hose) again once I befriend the math.  Again.  I may be in the midst of making some socks for someone else, but I may also just be practicing humility while simultaneously fuzzing up some particularly lovely wool silk yarn.  We’ll see what happens.

The sockyarn blanket is a few squares away from the last row.  Again.  But I am actually stopping once these squares are done, because I received an offer that I can’t refuse.  The lovely Jayme–who may just have been suffering baby brain at the time and absolutely won’t be held to the offer if she wises up–offered to crochet the edging if I edit some patterns for her.  I’ll edit the patterns no matter what, of course, because she designs really great knits and I am an editor who knits.  But if she does indeed decide she actually wants to edge the blanket, I may need to rejoin the Church of my birth and seek her canonization.  I guess I need to research how exactly that works, just in case.

In other news . . . remember that linen quilt I was working on?  I did some more work on it.  Scott’s Aunt Shirley and Uncle Bill came to visit us last weekend (big fun, crabs, museums, the works), and I was re-inspired.  Shirley and Scott’s mom Karen both quilt, and I’ve been meaning to make some progress on this project for ages.

When last we discussed the linen quilt, I had decided I wanted to add another fabric to the mix so that I could make a quilt large enough for a king-sized bed without waiting to have more linen scraps to make blocks with.  So I made a decision on a companion fabric.  I then unmade the decision after making a couple of trial blocks.  I decided last week that picking apart those blocks was nigh impossible, since the edges are all overcast.  So I made  a few more blocks and put a small top together.

Ok, it’s not that small, really, but I got a bit carried away.  It’s 42″ square.  I could put it on point, like I did here, and mimic an Amish classic, adding some solid fabrics.  But the figure in the black leaf print is so vertical–I don’t think I want this on point.  Hmmm.  I’m stuck again on this baby.

But at least I managed to re-bloom an orchid I thought was a goner.  So I’m going to think about the orchid, and maybe the answer about this quilt will come to me.

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