One of my vacation goals was to purchase a souvenir yarn from each state that we visited. That didn’t quite work out as the only yarn I bought was from The Joy of Knitting in Franklin, Tennessee.
Lana Grossa Lace Lux. One skein – 50g – 339 yards (310m), color 42 which is a silvery dark grey. 
The label was a bit shopworn but I couldn’t resist the color.
I’m thinking it will become Maluka.
Mr. Aitch and I visited with our son and his family while on our vacation. 
This was the first time that we met our daughter-in-law in person. She is a delight, very down to earth, generous, super nice and a knitter.
She and I were both pleasantly surprised to learn that we were both knitters.
When my grandmother taught me to knit, it was (what I’ve since discovered) in the “cottage” style of knitting where the knitter would prop the right needle against their hip/waist/underarm for support and move the left needle. Circular needles don’t offer that type of support. Dpns don’t really allow for that either as they are usually 5-8 inches long. Plus they are pretty thin (US 0-2) and very pointy. Sometimes I stick one end of the dpn into a wine cork so I can still support the sharp point against my body and not poke holes through my clothes (or skin). I just need to remember to move it as I knit from one needle to the next.
My daughter-in-law has mastered the two-at-a-time socks on circular needles. I am a double point needle (dpn) sock knitter, however, I want to learn this technique. During our visit, she gave me two sock knitting books:
The Sock à la Carte (c) 2008 by Jonelle Raffino, Katherine Cade and the SWTC Staff is so unique. 
The book has 17 cuff patterns, 20 body patterns and 18 heel and toe patterns that one can mix and match to create hundreds of different socks.
Part of the book contains flip pages to design your own unique combinations for the cuff, body, heel and toe that refer back to the directions for each section.
The other book 2-at-a-Time Socks (c) 2007 by Melissa Morgan-Oates explains the technique so well that I am going to give it a go. 
With 17 sock patterns included (and the patterns in the other book), I will have many to choose from for my first pair…just as soon as I finish more on my To-Do list.
Are you a sock knitter? Do you use double point needles, circular needles, 2-at-a-time, or knit flat socks and seam?
Or maybe I should call this post my procrastination list. The things I did because I didn’t want to do the things I needed to do.
To-Do List:
Did-Instead List:
Ok – so I actually did one thing from the To-Do list. I finally finished recovering the ottoman that went with one of the chairs that I reupholstered last summer. The only reason that I didn’t do it last year was that it is just too cold in the basement during the winter months to do that kind of work. More on this project another day.
The face/washcloths were a gift along with some handmade soaps from West Virginia to my daughter-in-law that we met for the first time while on our vacation. I forgot to take pictures of the ones I gave to her but they were similar to these. Picot Swirl Cloth in the small size. 
Repainting the outside doors were always in the back of my mind so when I saw that the paint was on sale for 40% off, I had to jump at that and buy some. More on this project another day, too.
So do you follow your To-Do List or do you find something else to do because you don’t want/need to do them?
We’ve had such dark and dreary weather here for the past week so I decided to rip out the last part of the Accidental Shawl to the dropped stitch. No point in waiting and forgetting the plan. I also began to join the other colors sooner to make them blend in better. The red is definitely a brighter shade than the original but I think it still works.
Instead of adding more eyelets (and doing the math so they would line up), I just increased stitches at regular intervals. Then the last seven rows before binding off in a picot edge, I added two rows of eyelets without increasing the stitch count. Meaning I would knit two together and do a yarn over (K2tog, YO).
The eyelets aren’t that noticeable since the yarn is variegated and I used a garter stitch throughout the shawl.
These two white stitches scared me at first as I thought I dropped another stitch.
But as you can see, it’s just a part of the dye (or lack of it) in that one section.
I’ll just weave in the ends and call it done!
Knitting In Flashes 