Wendy Knits

Judging from the comments about the cords on the Kollage square circulars, it’s not just me who has problems with them. But did you see this comment from Nancy?

I talked to the Kollage people at Stitches South and they told me they are coming out with a firm cable – probably by July. He implied that many people like the soft cable so they will be offering two different cables. I haven’t heard of anyone who liked the soft cable below a size 7 or 8 so I have a feeling if the firm cable actually works it will end up being the only one.

So, there is hope.

Meanwhile . . .

I have finished my first Rivulets sock and have just barely embarked on the second one.

This was going to be my main travel knitting when I head out to the S.W.A.K. Knit Out this weekend, but it looks like I’ll have a good part of the second sock done by the time I board a plane for Oklahoma Friday morning. So I must winkle together something else to bring in case I finish the second sock!

This has nothing to do with anything, but I glanced out my office window and saw this shortly before leaving today:

I’ve no idea what that was about. But it went on for about 10 minutes. That’s a lot of cyclists!

And Lucy just wonders when dinner will be served.

It was on Mother’s Day in 2003 that Lucy came to live with me. The volunteer from the rescue organization came over that Sunday for a home visit, and left Miss Lucy with me on the spot.

Lucy is celebrating that happy event.

She has remarkably good paw-writing, doesn’t she?

And I have a completed Rick-Rack sock to show you:

And from the side:

And I’ve started a new sock:

This lovely yarn is Enchanted Knoll Farm’s Superwash Sock Yarn in the “Athelas” colorway. Love it!

Lucy Sez:

Happy Mother’s Day!

The voting has been somewhat close but since Rick-Rack is in the lead as I write this, the name of the new sock design is now Rick-Rack Socks. The fact that I voted for Rick-Rack has no bearing on this outcome whatsoever.

And I have turned the heel on the first Rick-Rack sock.

And lookie here!

More Numma Numma yarn. This is the “Gumbo and Greens” colorway. Words cannot adequately express my love for this colorway.

In Other News

Remember a while back when I said I had no interest in getting a Kindle?

Yeah, I have a Kindle. I’ve had it for a week now.  A couple of weeks ago I got to play with one and decided it would be a very handy thing to have for travel. And since I have a lot of travel coming up this summer and autumn, I bought one. I’m using it for my lunchtime reading as well.

I find the display quite easy on the eyes — no glare to speak of. You can adjust the text size if the default is too large or too small for you. I fiddled with that a bit and decided the default is just right for me.

It has a rudimentary web browser built in, which is nice. And no monthly connectivity fees, which is even nicer.

My one complaint about it is that there are a lot of books that I wish had Kindle versions available that don’t. And I expect are very unlikely to have anytime soon. For example, the novels of Iris Murdoch. I do own all 26 of them in hardcopy, but I’d love to have electronic versions as well. Same for the novels of Barbara Pym.

Of course now that I’ve bought a Kindle 2, Amazon has announced a newer version — the Kindle DX, which will be available this summer. No, I don’t think I’ll ditch the one I have for the newer version. One drawback of the new one is that it is considerably larger than the current version. But if Amazon comes out with one with a touchscreen and a more robust web browser? Yep, I’ll be all over that!

Lucy Sez:

“Oh boy! Dinner!”