Gentleman's Simple Winter Socks

Another pair out of Nancy Bush's Vintage Socks book, these are the Gentleman's Winter Socks for the KAL from that book. While I had originally planned to make them for MyGuy they are now my socks. The yarn was a Regia and I knit them on 2mm bamboo needles. The heel construction was a bit weird, the sole part of the heel is rather thin. A first day of wearing showed them to be alright as far as the comfort went, however, so I will keep them this way.

White Socks finished

Over the last few days I sewed the 10 blocks that I had decided I needed to add when I first laid out the 70 existing blocks and sewed the top together. The pattern is Jewel Box and you can see that I once again chose to have two color scrappy quilt. This is one of my favorite types of quilt. I am thinking about adding a border, but the quilt already is 160x200 cm and I think just a red binding might be enoug.





I finished my white socks that were originally intended for the knit the classics for January. Though I had planned to use a simple eylet pattern, I could not resist when I found Gothic Lattice in one of Barbara Walker's Treasuries. After all Woman in White is a gothic novel. I am not sure if I would do the toe part like this again, but it's not bad enough for me to redo it. The socks are Regia Silk in white and very soft.

TBR Book 2

I have started book 2 for the tbr challenge this morning. Inspector Montalban will be my train reading for the moment. I have actually finished a book (The Ghost and Mrs. McClure) since posting about my reading funk, but am still starting book after book and not going through with any of them. Very bad when you consider that I should read 5 classics till the end of this month for the Classics Challenge. Guess that one I will not meet. But at least I am keeping up with the tbr.

African Socks

I knit these socks while I was home sick this week. I couldn't handle anything more complicated than stockinette and that was great for this yarn. It is Regia Africa and the redish color reminds me of the dirt roads in Ghana. I am happy how they turned out.

Also on the needles are the white gothic socks and I started the Simple Winter Socks for the Vintage Socks KAL. At first I was sorry those were the selected socks for the KAL, but I am still not completely recovered, so they make the perfect blog reading knitting. They will be for MyGuy, I think he will like the brown and natural colors.

Silent Poetry Day

BERT BRECHT
Fragen eines lesenden Arbeiters


Wer baute das siebentorige Theben?
In den Büchern stehen die Namen von Königen.
Haben die Könige die Felsbrocken herbeigeschleppt?
Und das mehrmals zerstörte Babylon,
Wer baute es soviele Male wieder auf? In welchen Häusern
Des goldstrahlenden Lima wohnten die Bauleute?
Wohin gingen an dem Abend, wo die chinesische Mauer fertig war,
Die Maurer? Das große Rom
Ist voll von Triumphbögen. über wen
Triumphierten die Cäsaren? Hatte das vielbesungene Byzanz
Nur Paläste für seine Bewohner? Selbst in dem sagenhaften Atlantis
Brüllten doch in der Nacht, wo das Meer es verschlang,
Die Ersaufenden nach ihren Sklaven.
Der junge Alexander eroberte Indien.
Er allein?
Cäsar schlug die Gallier.
Hatte er nicht wenigstens einen Koch bei sich?
Philipp von Spanien weinte, als seine Flotte
Untergegangen war. Weinte sonst niemand?
Friedrich der Zweite siegte im Siebenjährigen Krieg. Wer
Siegte außer ihm?

Jede Seite ein Sieg.
Wer kochte den Siegesschmaus?
Alle zehn Jahre ein großer Mann.
Wer bezahlte die Spesen?

So viele Berichte,
So viele Fragen.