Thursday Sockalong: Smooth Operators!

It’s Thursday???  How did that happen!

I had a lovely weekend at my parents’, then came back to Philadelphia to a half unpacked apartment and the start of a new academic year at a new institution.  So the last few days have been hectic.   But this afternoon, I cleared off a corner of my increasingly buried kitchen table, made a pot of tea, knit a few rows of my new socks (Susan B. Anderson’s Smooth Operators), and snapped a picture:

After I’d had my tea (I found my most favorite tea here — Tea Pigs English Breakfast, what a treat!) and worked a few rows, I felt much better. So much better, in fact, that I decided that I could get the rest of the big eat-in kitchen in order and check out my neighborhood’s Thursday night farmers’ market.  My formerly rubbish-strewn table now has a bouquet of flowers and a bowl full of the most delicious tomatoes: I even managed to use some of those tomatoes to cook myself a real dinner!  In my new kitchen!  Which no longer has a box in sight!

If I seem a little delirious, it’s probably because I am.

Anyway, I’ve strayed pretty far from socks … next week, hopefully I’ll have many more thoughts on my Smooth Operators to share, and I hope to be back to my regularly scheduled programming.

There’s a group of us who knit socks and write about them on Thursday.  Go check out their blogs:

• Alex at Alexand Knits
• Paula at Spin a Yarn
• Hannah at unsophisticated + jejeune
• Jennifer at A Creative Yarn
• Maggie at Project(s) in Progress

Hope your week’s been great.  Back to unpacking (read: figuring out where to store my heaps of yarn).