Glanalaw - delighting in pure song

As promised, I've been working on the UFOs and the first is finished! These are the IronMan2 Socks by Laura Jenkins, worked in KnitPicks Stroll in "Dandelion". They were an interesting and rather challenging project, requiring a lot of attention to the charts.  I started them on a petsitting weekend back in 2015, then finished the first sock on a road trip to New Jersey last June.  Then they sat around for over 6 months until I finally finished the second one over the weekend at the end of February. These are not perfect - I misread some of the chart symbols when I picked them up last June, and worked most of the leg doing the twists wrong, so the first sock is not as smooth inside as it ought to be, though the difference is not terribly obvious on a quick look.  It wasn't enough to make me re-knit the sock, but it still bothers me that I did it wrong! Conrad was my constant companion during the weekend of the second sock.  (I did a photo follow-a

Oh look, I took another 6-month break from blogging.  I keep saying I won't do that again... and then I do that again.  So much else is going on that sometimes blogging takes a backseat!  Things like knitting 9 pairs of Dobby Socks since October, for instance. And to be honest, since I finally caved and signed up for Instagram, it's easier to let the blogging slide. But a new year, and a new post, and a new project!  I've been feeling increasingly overwhelmed by the amount of STUFF in my life.  A year in a 550-square-foot apartment with very little closet space will do that to a girl.  I'm also hampered by a dread of throwing away anything that might someday be useful, or worth something!  But I've got to start somewhere, so here it is: finish all the UFOs. No, I don't have alien spaceships crammed in here too.  UFO in the crafting world stands for UnFinished Object, and friends? I have LOTS.  Even just scrolling through my Ravelry project page (where