In fact its too hot to do anything much other than hide out in the air conditioned house, or swim. This weekend Adam has learned to dive and also to swim a length of the pool underwater (it must be mentioned that a length of our pool is no great distance however). Here is an action shot...
And what else to do during a heatwave? Knit and wear some woolen socks of course. This is Nigel modelling his new socks...
The wool is Mountain Colors Bearfoot which is a mostly wool mixed with some nylon for wear and mohair for fuzziness. I really liked knitting with this wool - much more than the much-raved-over Koigu - it has a much softer hand.
The colour is called Thunderhead which really captures the purply blue grey colours - the photo is not such a good representation of the colour since while just about acceptable to try on wool socks - taking them outside for the photo would have been too cruel.
The pattern is a generic top-down plain sock - I didnt really make many changes apart from the adjustments in size and to make the toes less pointy ( sock patterns always seem to default to a pointy toe - no good for feet like ours).
I'm off to Vegas tomorrow - so probably limited blogging. I am however taking my new knitting project with me - and it's not socks!
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The colour of the socks looks fabulous. Very brave of Nigel to sport them, (Men: on the whole - nice).
It is hot here too but nothing like that... I had to endure 95 degrees at night in Baker (home of the world's tallest... etc) and that was torture even with air conditioning.
I am currently reknitting the sleeves of my turquoise cardigan in the garden, but have just been stung by a wasp so came indoors! Am now waiting for arm to swell like football as this is the kind of reaction I have come to expect from minor insect activity on my skin.
[Please tell George I went as I would have wanted - engaging in my favourite hobby.]
Now for a restoring cup of tea and slice of purely medicinal carrot cake (5 points).
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