Where did it go?

February, I mean. Must be a change of job, the coming change of seasons, watching the US election unfold - which, from the perspective of a bemused Canadian, is always interesting. As a veteran of leadership conventions in this country, I rather like the brokering that goes on and the seemingly endless voting of delegates at the convention to determine the winner. Knowing who will win the Republican nomination and wondering why the superdelegates in the Democratic convention is such a bad thing is making my mornings interesting.

As for my lazy purling - it's only socks right now - designing one or two, trying to work out how to make them fit not just my feet, but the feet of a whole lot of people. You see, I have short, wide feet. The only time I ever came close to running out of yarn was when I was in a cable mode, and as we know, cables are real yarn suckers. (Did I mention short toes? Yes, short toes as well, so I never worry about whether the socks I'm knitting for myself are long enough. I'm sure you can see the challenge - what are real people's feet like? Are more long and narrow than short and wide? High instep? Thick ankles?

A good start

I must admit I stole the title from Ravelry, from one of the groups that discusses non-conventional or non-English styles of knitting. The Lazy Purl, it would seem, is the way I purl - left hand holding the yarn, and the right needle goes over, grabs it and pulls it through. It's much less complicated than a conventional purl, either right or left handed, and all I need to remember is that it reverses the mount for the knit stitches on the way back. Since I've always knit this way, it's hardly a stretch, since as soon as I could read a pattern, my mother was teaching me how to manage the decreases and the "knit through back loop" instructions. I always thought everyone did it this way: now I know differently.

I love the name - the Lazy Purl. That's me to a T. If there's an easier way to do it, I'm game.

Pictures of socks and stuff coming as soon as the digital camera is out of storage. Well - maybe I'll add one from the stash.

This is a sock I made from Louet Gems Merino - lovely to work with, but the skeins are on the small side, and without realizing what I was doing (there's a surprise), cables are on the large side - of needing lots of yarn, that is. This was an original for me - I call it the Waterfall Cable, because the cables undulate more than cross. I seem to have developed this habit of making socks more difficult than they need to be, particularly when the yarns aren't patterned.