Learning how to post photos

I am learning how to post photos, and wouldn't you know it, the first photo I've posted is not a quilt - it's a sock. It's not so much that I knit more than I quilt (although some days I do), but because the Mad Australian Shepherd and I are only now learning about digital cameras. He knows that I am good and fast with my Nikon, but it's not digital, and although it continues to be the camera du chois, it's not so good for this. Bear with me. I am learning, albeit slowly. Okay, so the first isn't even a sock. I told you, I'm learning.


This is a picture of the Mad Australian Shepherd. As you can see, he's a handsome boy, although, as I said, mad.

This is the sock.


Earlier this summer, Pickupsticks asked customers to try their hands at designing socks. The September yarn was Fleece Artist, which I happened to have in my stash, and this is the result - or rather, one of the results. The two socks of the pair are a tiny bit different, but when I wear them, no-one notices. I put that down to the fact that few people I knew really look at anyone's feet past the point where they go, "Oh, you have blue toes!"

I discovered I enjoyed designing socks. (I also discovered it's much easier to knit in the van on a cross-country, cross-border drive than to quilt.) This sock wasn't selected by Connie for her club, so I thought I might post the pattern later for everyone to enjoy.

On the trusty Singer right now, a wedding quilt. Blue and brown batiks for Jaclyn and Eric. Only a few years late. On the needles, one of my sock experiments in Louet Gems.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of us in Canada, on a rainy prairie fall day - a good day to be indoors.