Knit with Bex

Eric & Charlie are sleeping and the older boys are off with friends. I haven't heard the house this quite at 1 pm for months. Even the dogs and cats are laying about in any snippets of sunshine they can find. I made Eric dig out five of my stash tubs (before he took a nap) so I could try to find something to take to the White Elephant/ Stash Exchange I've been invited to. I was impressed with myself, actually (even with so much stash.) Every tub is organized with separate bags with future projects together with their patterns. I actually had a difficult time finding unplanned for skeins of yarn in them. I will probably never get around to all of the projects I have planned, but I hate to get rid of the yarn, just in case. It was actually a great refresher scan. Now I have a better idea what projects I want to do next...motivation is surfacing to finish the ones (ten) on needles! I've run into trouble on the socks I am working on for my mother. They are based on a wonderful pattern from Tongue River Farm (New Harmony Sock) in purple and fuschia hand-dyed mohair/wool from Weaving Southwest. Unfortunately, using the stitch #'s in the pattern, the socks are never going to fit over Mom's heels (even though she has tiny feet.) At first I thought I was just knitting the fairisle too tightly. But I really don't think this is the case. I use the Philosopher's Wool two handed technique, which tucks in floats and helps keep them from getting pulled too tight. I'm afraid I may have to start over and add another pattern repeat. This may be difficult since there are actually five separate colorwork patterns in each sock (and I'm almost done - that's the hard part!) I'll figure it out..pics soon. I'd better go take full advantage of this quiet and knit!