After being energised by the ghost costume, I sat down and did a bunch of household sewing yesterday. There is more to do. there is always more, but still, it filled a need and I am happy to have that done. There is a bit more on that pile for today, but after that, sewing will get interesting again for me, if not for you.
When the sewing was completed, I wanted something simple but interesting to knit. The lovely striped sweaters were not it. I wanted socks. I really could use them too. This is always the time of year when socks die and the sock drawer assumes I have some new socks waiting in the wings. Usually I do, but not right now. Right now, I have nine different sock events on the go, but only one has a single sock complete.
I dug through the depths of the sock project bags, but couldn't find the one I was thinking to work on. I settled for this one, which was ready for a heel.
Unfortunately for this sock, I was looking for a second end from the sock ball so I could double strand the heel and before you know it, half the ball was out on the floor.
I thought I was working with the inner end, but no, contrary to common practise, the ball had both inner and outer ends coming from the center, all mashed up together. The ball had obviously been looked at somewhere along the way to me, and it took half the day to sort it out. I ended up cutting the sock off the ball with a good long tail, and rewinding a good socks worth. Then with two ends coming from places I understood, I started the heel.
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