Ugh. It’s the last day of March and it snowed last night. I mean, enough snow to cover everything in white. It was 70 degrees F less than a week ago, and here winter teased me again. Actually, right now it is 46 and the snow has melted, but there is nothing like snow to make me blue… My favorite temperature is 85F, when everyone else is complaining about how hot it is… come on, summer!!!

On top of the disappointing weather, I seem to have some sort of minor gut bug keeping me down. I cancelled my CityKidz Knit! program for today, I don’t want them to get it even if I could make it through the class all right. Mike, who usually works the Wednesday night computer labs, has graciously agreed to work the lab tonight so that we don’t have to be closed. That is good, because I want the room to be available to the kids who have homework due tomorrow.

I’m plugging away on the proofknitting of my sock design. I’m being plagued again by my gauge-of-the-hour, unfortunately. Other than that, it is looking good and the few friends to whom I’ve shown the first sample sock, really liked it. I hope those who are not my friends will be as enthusiastic!

Someone on Socknitters posted yesterday about how she had tried my LynnH No-Purl Heel and really liked it. That made me feel really good.

I created that heel because I really disliked purling. Now I’ve made peace with purls but I still do that heel about 85% or more of the time I make a pair of sox. It just fits me well! It’s stretchier and conforms to my heel better than other heel turns. And I find it easy to turn the heel while chatting with friends. A typical heel for me is not difficult, but it requires total silence. Since I do so much of my socknitting in public, a heel I can do without focused concentration is a real plus.

The LynnH No-Purl Heel is in my free pattern, Fast Florida Footies, that I have mentioned perhaps far too often here in my weblog. But free is a good thing, right?

Off to drink green tea, eat some homemade split pea soup I found in my freezer (yippee), try to heal and relax, and knit the final bit of my sample sock. It’s a good thing the work of the day is knitting, the most relaxing thing I can think of. The spreadsheet for the pattern is 99% done, so now it’s knit, knit knit.

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