Mid-Week Update

The Job Hunt continues, with yet another contact. Wish me luck . . .

Meanwhile, a Boston blogger, Subway Knitter, has managed to get into WaPo. Congratulations! It is my fervent hope and prayer that I will soon rejoin the legion of knitting commuters again very soon.

Okay, so . . . here's the sock that languished for years and which I finally completed (still working on its twin). You see that groove just below the light turquoise band? This is what I'm not so happy about. I did kitchener stitch on it, and I was expecting it to lie flat like what you usually get when you do the kitchener stitch on top of the toes, and other items. Well - not so here.

Here's a close-up. The picture is a bit blurry because I couldn't get a good enough focus. But look at the area just below the wide light blue band. Can you say, chafing big time? Especially when you walk around with shoes on. Unfortunately, the picture in the original IK article doesn't show the bottom of the displayed foot. And in Simply Socks, it's all just illustrations and you don't get a real sense of what the knitted item is supposed to look like. There's no real substitution for photos, in my humble opinion.

Here are the updated of the two socks that I'm working on for the Summer of Socks:

The first one is done in Opal yarn, and the second one is done in Dale Baby Ull yarn.

Here's a really interesting contest that I just came across: My Dream App. It was opened to the public yesterday, and already there are 1461 submitted ideas so far and counting - wow! They want you to submit ideas for the killer Mac application, and three applications will be selected and developed. And you get part of the royalties on the Macintosh application if your idea wins. Of course, read the fine print. Contest ends September 1st, and then they'll be weeding out the chaff from the wheat, with help from you folks. Yes, just like those reality shows where you call in to vote off people every week. I've got quite a few ideas for that killer app . . .