Speedy Gonzales on a Caffeine High

My Speedy Socks are done and done early enough to wear to work last week! It looks like I didn't mention all my fretting over the foot length of experimental socks. I had convinced myself the foot length was too long for my foot size and most everyone that I would knit for. Somehow Mom's genetics took over for both of my sisters and me. The 4 women I grew up with all wear the same size shoe if not the same clothing size. (I would like to point out I am the tallest of us!) The only other person left knit for that is family (without being related by blood) is my college roommate Rachel. So I instigated a series of text messages where I poured out all my troubles with the foot length and if they were too long would she take them. Evil being that Rachel is, of course she'll take them and in fact she wished me the greatest of evils that the foot would be too long!

Guess What Rachel! You Lose! They fit me perfectly! See? Pardon the really early morning photo shoot but that was the time I had energy and opportunity.  DS2 wanted to show off his superhero shoes too! Please notice the shoes are roughly 1-2 months old and he is already destroying them!

Since the socks were cast on and completed in EXACTLY a week, I even had time to take other knitting to work. The problem with knitting at work over the lunch hour is, IF you forget you set the bag under the desk, in the back far corner, you might not have much opportunity to work on it at home. Whoops! 

Good thing I almost always have a back up project. I pulled out my much neglected dishcloth. This poor dishcloth. Beyond the neglect by it's knitter, the knitter's children have abused the needles to excess. Since the knitter is not well known for putting her toys away, Darling Dearest Children helped themselves to the needles. After spending an extraordinary amount of time putting the stitches back on her grandmother's unaffected needle, the knitter spent a great portion of time working the special needle. We'll just call it a success and hopefully over time and with a lot of love, the needle will correct the rest of the way.

As always knitters have grand ideas and a ton of time because we know how to multi-task. DH and I have started kettle dying yarn on a grander scale than what I've done in the past. So we've opened an Etsy shop named Dixie Fiber Works. Currently we have solids and semi-solids in the shop with plans to add some of the stitch markers DH has been making for me. There's a few modifications I would like for DH to make before we add them to the shop. He has definite ideas regarding the stitch markers like only wanting to use real gemstones like Tiger's Eye and (various types) jasper. Must be the inner geologist in him.  

As you can tell, I've been giving a test run for the stitch markers currently made by DH in my Dr. Watson Sweater! See the Tiger's Eye in the upper right hand corner?