Grrrrrr...

I'm starting to think that perhaps I am just not meant to finish a pair of Jaywalkers. I feel like I am totally messing up the heels on these. I'm doing what the toe up pattern says, but it just doesn't seem right. The sole seems to be getting too long. Maybe I made the sole too long before starting the heel, I don't know. As I've never done a heel like this before, I don't know if I'm doing it right. And, while working on them this afternoon, I dropped a whole bunch of stitches.

I really don't feel like picking them back up again, so I think I'm going to rip back and do a short row heel. Stick with the familiar and I may actually get these done.

Yesterday, I got an email from a friend who suggested that I check out a podcast that she's been listening to. It's called Craft Sanity. I've only listened to one episode so far, but it seems pretty cool. For each episode, there is a craft project posted on the website, courtesy of the person being interviewed. So, I started poking around the website a bit, and there is an episode with the ever popular Brenda Dayne. (which I just decided to listen to while I blog...) The project for the Brenday Dayne episode is a pattern for socks! So, since I am completely frustrated with the damn Jaywalkers, I decided to immediately cast on. I am magic looping them and doing two at the same time using my very fabulous Pistachio Chip sock yarn from the very fabulous Mama E.



Aren't these colors AWESOME? I love how this is knitting up. And so far, the pattern is entertaining. I'm trying desperately to cable without a cable needle. It's slow going, but I'm hoping with practice I will get better at it. I keep dropping stitches.

Saturday I went to the Columbia International Festival. (I just searched for a website to link to, but oddly I cannot find one!) It was kind of disappointing. There were lots of vendors selling lots of jewelry. Nothing terribly interesting. I wasn't quite sure what made it an International festival, rather than just a craft show. I guess I expected some demonstrations of ethnic crafts or customs. There was none of that. The music was really good though. There was a salsa band playing while I was there that was very fun. I thought about camping out with my knitting and listening to the bands, but it was too HOT. I did take some pictures. The umbrellas were part of some art contest. I still haven't figured out - why umbrellas? But some of them were really cool.