Socking along

Occasionally, over the last 5 days, I have come up for air from the tidal wave of Mystery Stole 3 emails, and I've done a bit of knitting. The Mystery Stole 3 group is already bigger than we've ever been before and apparently, we've put quite a dent in the world's supply of laceweight yarn in black and white - particularly Zephyr. Stephanie is doing her Represent! tour, collecting hats for charity and blowing the minds of bookstores and bars across the North American continent. I'm not exactly on tour (and no where near in the same league as Stephanie), but by leading a worldwide (at least 11 countries are represented so far) contingent of lace knitters in a crazed buying spree of black and white laceweight yarn, we're going to leave our own mark on the economy (namely, that no one will be able to buy black or white laceweight until Christmas or so). I understand that even the online bead community is wondering what's going on. My crazy idea 2 years ago to do a little Mystery Stole knitalong seems to have really taken off, and become a crazed yarn buying monster. Vive le Monstre!

So, when I escape from the computer, giggling in a demented, undercaffeinated kind of way (I'm actually misspelling my own name on emails right now), I've been knitting on two different things. One of them is the Mystery Stole (must knit enough to stay ahead of the Monster, I mean Group), which I can't show you and the other, when I can't form coherent thoughts, is this second waffle sock. See? I've done the leg and the little curly thing at the top right is the beginning of the heel flap. The stripe pattern is completely different from the first sock, but I still really love the way the colors are working together. By the end of this summer, I might be sitting here staring at nothing but the way the pretty colors blend together. Or I may be hauled off in a long sleeved white jacket - but it won't be knit of laceweight yarn - there's not much more of that available.