Knitting and TV Watching

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I've had the house pretty much to myself this weekend and have been happily knitting myself into a coma while "holding the remote control" and laughing like a mad woman. Let me say first that I have not felt compelled to tune into the Olympics even once. It's been Lifetime, the Food Network, A & E and true crime shows. This morning I watched "The Net," which is an older Sandra Bullock movie where she plays a computer nerd whose identity is stolen through the computer. She is drawn into murder and mayhem and no one will believe her. This is very similar to the Jeffrey Deaver book I read recently, "The Broken Window." Good and scary stuff!

Since I took the Funky Footsies knitting class, I have been on a mission to single-handedly pump out cozy chunky socks. Somebody stop me!

I started with a turquoise pair that I gave to a friend when we met for lunch last week. Bless her heart, she loves to receive handmade stuff and promptly whipped off her shoe, put on her sock, threw her leg up on the table and posed for a picture in the restaurant. Another pair went to the Granddaughter because purple is her favorite color of the moment.

YD requested a pair in charcoal gray with no frou frou stuff on top. If I did not know for certain that the only 9 pound 3 ounce baby in the nursery was mine the day she was born, I would think she'd been switched at birth.

And a pair for a neighbor who is going through a serious health crisis ...

I just love the decorative yarns in the tops of these socks. Unfortunately, I don't think they're available any longer -- I've had them for some time and pulled them out of my stash.

I was visiting some of my favorite knitting blogs yesterday and as I read Mason-Dixon Knitting, I saw that they're making these adorable little Knitted Neck Scarves. I've seen them pictured before, but never had a pattern. They offered this link to the pattern on the Martha Stewart Living website. Of course, I immediately had to start one. After again raiding my stash, I'm using a sport weight baby yarn that has a sparkly thread running through it as a test run.

It's a very simple pattern and the little pocket that you knit into the scarf to pull the end through is ingenious!

To make it all even more cozy, along with the non-stop knitting and temporary ownership of the remote control, it has rained constantly. Everything from a little drizzle to the roof pounding kind that strains the palm trees and makes the dogs stare out into the darkness and growl. Kinda nice, kinda creepy!