New Year, new life

How strange. Things have *settled* and in a good way. There is pace and routine, not too much in the way of real significant stress (the day to day nonsense of course remains), I feel at peace and at equipoise in my world. Which is a lot to say, for me. There is some knitting, a spiral sock in a frightfully 70s colorway of orange, gold, brown and forest green, Thing Two picked out. It is inexplicably called "Lotus" which I would have expected creamy pink and magenta. I DO NOT like its K3, P3 spiralling rib, I think 42 sts worsted and an extra stitch added after the ribbing section to make it spiral. It neatly finishes by decreasing back to 42 and then dividing 50% sts on one needle, and 25% of sts eacho of two more needles, then alternating one plain round with a double decrease of K1 K2tog..............SSK K1 on the front and the back (4 sts decreased every other round). Finished up at 10 sts across and now we have to find grafting/Kitchener instructions. Off we go.

Also working a log cabin blanket in homely Red Heart Worsted, shades of blue. Pick up on the right side, bind off on the wrong. This takes way too much time, on size 8 needles. Now if I'd just get started on working activities. Sigh.