A mixed up day

It was a day of mixed blessings. The biggest thing that happened is that I got my first royalty advance check and promptly deposited it in my account. I guess this is all real, huh?

I took my boot sock to the shop to work on and people kept stopping to admire it. The owner said her first thought when she saw it was "I could do that." My editor keeps cautioning me to not get carried away with complex lace designs as there are alot of people who wouldn't buy the book because they didn't feel they could knit them. What do you think?

Then, when I got home, I found two skeins of Lorna's Laces worsted weight yarn in a denim color for me to use for legwarmers. Also in the mail box was a package from Crystal Palace with their yummy Panda Silk in a butterscotch color. It's wonderful to have yarn companies just sending me whatever I ask for to design with! My office has baskets of yarn overflowing at this point.

The rest of the day went downhill, at least as far as designing went. I really wanted to use a pattern I had tried out with fingering weight, only I wanted to adapt it to a sport weight knee sock. My math brain was apparently on vacation and I struggled with trying to figure it out for a couple of hours. I finally thought I "had it" and cast on and did the ribbing. Then I promptly messed up the first rows of the pattern and had to rip it out. Maybe it just doesn't want to be this pattern. Maybe the knitting gods are trying to tell me something.