On the Road Again

Soon I will be leaving lovely Allentown, PA and returning to Boston, MA. What this means is that I will no longer have large chuncks of weekday time to knit :-( and I will have to go back to work :-O! This morning I will just be packing up my car and hoping that there will be no cops on the roads from here to Boston, or at least that if they are around, they won't chose to pull me over. Guess that I will have to be extra careful going through NJ, reminder to self, lighten up on the lead foot!

I got a bit accomplished this week, the knitting on my grandmother's sweater is done, my mother's table runner is done, the front and back of my lace and tuck tunic are finished up to the yoke, and I have finished the first of the embossed leaves sock. I have made the embossed leaves sock using knitpicks Essential sock yarn in cocoa.

About this sock, there are a couple of things that in retrospect I would have changed. The heel is simply stockinette, I think I prefer the look of a heel where on the right side rows you slip every other stitch, creating a pseudo rib. Perhaps I will make that modification to the second sock. Also I think the toe is in the style of a star decrease, which I also don't love, I don't hate it either, but I would consider changing the toe, but wouldn't necessarily make a change. Of course, I could have made either of these changes to the first sock, but I wanted to be true to the pattern to see if there was a reason for the choices made. Overall, I do like the sock, and felt that, at least for me, it knit up quickly. I am considering making the second sock a different color. I don't have the other skein with me, but if you click on the knitpicks essentials link above, I also have the color "fawn" which is more brown than it appears on my monitor, and perhaps on yours as well. The question is, do I want to go traditional with matching color, or be bold and walk around with 2 different shades of brown socks that are a match only by the pattern of stitch used. Please leave me your opinion in the comments. In my next post I will let you know what I have decided.