Just Made It
The Christmas socks are done, and came very, VERY close to sending me back to mostly toe-up socks. Out of a 100-gram ball with 458 yards of yarn, I finished with this: I have no idea what I actually would have done had they required any more yarn, since I don't have any more of this AND it's been discontinued, but I do love knitting on the edge. Not that I'm not making a note in my project book to make the legs slightly shorter for this particular recipient. Once is fine, but I don't want to press my luck too much. I try to save THAT sort of behavior for lace. Lately I've been feeling nauseous almost constantly instead of just afternoons as I had been, so I have decided to try going off the pain pills entirely. The spine specialist said to take them for 2 weeks after my back stopped hurting, but I don't think I'm going to get better if I can't exercise, and I can't exercise when I'm nauseous, so today is my first pill-free day in ...