Remember the Florida Trip socks?  I said I was knitting them for my mom, but actually I was knitting them as a surprise gift for a dear friend whom I’ve known for over twenty-five years.  Sometimes she reads this blog, and I didn’t want to take the chance that she’d learn what I was making for her birthday gift.

Anyway, I mailed them to her in Hawaii, and she sent me a photo to let me know that they’d arrived and fit perfectly.  She has small feet like my mom, and I used a cardboard template of my mom’s footprint to figure out the fit.  These were the first pair of socks that I knit with the fish lips kiss heel.  The fact that the socks fit with no bagging around the ankles fully confirms my decision to throw away the gusset heel pattern and stick with short row heels from now on.

I knit the heel and am almost done with the cuff.  I’m really liking the fish lips kiss heel.  I’m throwing out the gusset heel pattern and embracing short row heels from now on.

Aunt Georgia, maybe the next time we get together, you could teach me the sweet tomato heel?

I got a lot of knitting done today.  It’s been a while since I used a skein of self-striping, self-patterning yarn.  I forgot how enjoyable it is to knit and watch the pattern unfold.

Monday is the Labor Day holiday, so a lot of my colleagues were talking about looking forward to their three-day weekend.  And I was like, man, ten-hour work days can feel sooooooooo long, but damn, I’m sure glad that three-day weekends for me are every weekend.

Happy Labor Day weekend!

Several months ago, I told my older brother that I would knit a pair of socks for him.  I meant well, but life and work and other projects came along, and I just never got around to casting on his socks.  Last night it occurred to me that his birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks.  Whoops!  So I got started on this sock.

Holy cow, it’s the first of September already!  Where did the summer go?

I finished knitting this pair of socks for my mom.  It’s the first time I tried the fish lips kiss heel.  Compared to the gusset heel pattern that I’d been using, I think this particular heel will fit the foot a lot better.  I’ll have to knit a pair for myself to know for sure.

I did a lot of driving today.  I drove to the allergist’s office in Oxnard for my immunotherapy shot.  I drove to a number of places in Ventura for errands.  I drove 150 miles back to Morro Bay.  I drove several more additional miles to Cayucos and around Morro Bay for more errands.  I am tired of being in the car.  Luckily, I have this sock to finish and help me unwind.