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I decided on what is called a " Moss Stitch V" cable with moss stitch inside the cable work for the front of the leg. I can do plain stockinette stitch for the foot, so it will be smooth. The book I am using is the Knitting Stitches Visual Encyclopedia, by Sharon Turner. Amazon carries it both hard copy and kindle I believe. It is page 129 in the book.

The other thing waking up to icy hands as the temps drops has inspired me to search and find a simple wrist warmer pattern and this is what I came up with. Great for using up sock yarn bits.

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/basic-mitt-pattern-using-left-over-4-ply-sock-yarn

Will any one with metric system knowledge be able to translate to American measurement system please?

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/past_exhibitions/2013/pompeii_and_herculaneum/pompeii_live/live_event/bread_recipe.aspx

here is the recipe. I have no idea if this is gluten free?

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Making 2,000-year-old bread

In AD 79, a baker put his loaf of bread into the oven. Nearly 2,000 years later it was found during excavations in Herculaneum. The British Museum asked Giorgio Locatelli to recreate the recipe as part of his culinary investigations for Pompeii Live. Try it for yourself using Giorgio's recipe.

Ingredients

400g biga acida (sourdough)
12g yeast
18g gluten
24g salt
532g water
405g spelt flour
405g wholemeal flour

Carbonised loaf of bread, AD 79, Roman, Herculaneum. © Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompei

Method

Melt the yeast into the water and add it into the biga. Mix and sieve the flours together with the gluten and add to the water mix. Mix for two minutes, add the salt and keep mixing for another three minutes. Make a round shape with it and leave to rest for one hour. Put some string around it to keep its shape during cooking. Make some cuts on top before cooking to help the bread rise in the oven and cook for 30–45 minutes at 200 degrees.

Wow. ok. I am sorry you got a whif of that stuff. yikes. Do you have any dandelion tea or ginger root? Make some tea and drink it. The ginger would help your lungs recupe quickly and it detoxes the blood stream, dandelion detoxes the blood. Glad you are feeling all right. I am glad they checked you out medically. Or a good dose of silver iodide in a glass of water, any of that is a help when you run across toxic stuff at that level.

Garbage on the side of the road.

Has to choose the cable patterns to use on the sock now. Will do seed stitch on back of leg.

Lunchtime and its a nice sunny , warmish day again, will knit a while then go on errands. Daylight savings times drives me nuts. It gets dark far too early in the north.

Christy, do you know the keyhole scarf style? I like those, too.

Nice. I found a zick zack scarf I can do in the sock yarns I have in my yarn stash! On ravelry.com if you are a member? I do like cabled scarves, but might do one for my friend down the street. Manly colors, but have to dig out the yarn for it. At this point I just need the socks more. It is getting colder now, sort of, temperatures are still fluctuating , and it is oddly warm here in the States compared to how it usually cools down each year. Although we are having some snow storms . It was 30 F degrees yesterday, windchill made it 19F, but today back up to 51F.

I am trying to do one or maybe two projects at a time, or I won't get any done at all.

ouch, five days of intermittent knitting to get the calf area done on leg.......ok, well, you know the distractions out there in the world today! Finally back on a seed stitch for a bit of the length. It all looks pretty good. I am just wondering if cables are the way to go after the seed stitch. Yea, it's 'different', having used the pique rib stitch for a solid leg section... but maybe I will be starting a new trend????

There are so many cables to choose from! I will post a pic once I have the seed stitch part done under the pique rib stitch......

Ok, if I did not have as cold a winter as I get in this climate I would do knee high socks in Lunar Tide pattern on ravelry, but it has a slightly open work or lace cable and while it is quite pretty, It would make a better spring time or warmer winter /beach zone sock, so I am designing a prototype sock as I go, on the knee highs I just cast on.

This means I have to increase cast on stitches because my top of my calf, under my knee where the cuff goes is quite a bit larger than where my summer socks start ( crew style) below my whole calf on the lower leg.

My cuff place on my leg , below the knee is 12 inches in diameter, and I have a muscular calf. I estimated the ( approx. 15%) negative ease or 'stretch' this will take and settled for casting on 80 stitches, size 2 dpn's ( you can use circ's if you like, I am still learning to be comfy completely with dpns and just cuff down styles for now. ) I don't need to feel more mixed up than usual, ya know? Gauge is generally 8 stitches per inch when I use these needles in this size.

These socks need to be sturdy, solid and by comparison, even though its sock yarn from Patons, Cascade colors and some of the other similar colorways like it would probably be as thick and sturdy, compared to the brown rose marl. I could just tell the difference when I knit the brown rose marl in the cable and rib socks I just made. It's a tad squirrely to work with compared to the cascade colors Patons Kroy Sock FX yarn. It has very pretty gradations of colors in it too and suits the patterning I have chosen so far.

So, on first knee high sock, the cuff is just a simple 2x2 rib. ( K2, P2) 1 1/4" long.

I decided to do the seed stitch to see what affect it came up with . I like the affects, which are textured and I did 12 rows to get 3/4" length there.

( These socks will be a composite of stitch patterns that I hope end up going well together, but are sturdy and solid against the cold)

I am looking at cables but the calf part remains using the 80 sts cast on until I can decrease to 64 sts and then do a cable patterning that will work.

I also wanted the majority of the calf to have some stretch, but also feel 'warm' . So, what ribbing would work, I asked myself.

I am thinking outside the box here, these socks are not quite conventional, but I see a lot of folks designing new sock patterns , so I decided to come up with something I enjoy, but was not too difficult to do and went fast on knitting the stitches. Stitch Patterns I could get the rhythm of and probably remember well enough to not make so many mistakes since for some reason my concentration levels are very poor right now although I am working on that each day.

I did not want it so difficult or long in the number of different rows, that I would not want to finish it, either.

I have settled on the Pique Rib Stitch from my stitch dictionary book. It also only has 4 rows, you repeat to length you want done.

This is with the seed stitch and cuff completed, thus far .

Absolutely dangerous when it comes to open flame and cigarettes losing their cherries. Major flammability and melt factor.

Another 1.5" on the foot and I can do the toe, which goes pretty quickly.

I spent some time on ravelry.com this morning, and knitpicks site finding free patterns for dishcloths , the Wheatsheaf Sock pattern which is very nice. As well as some knee warmers you can adjust to fit any size knee, and some nice leg warmer patterns.

Now, onto finishing this sock.

Very well said, Kappy. I was just thinking of my friend "Chief" who was a Viet Nam Vet, part Mohawk and Cherokee, I used to be best buddies with here, who has passed on. Pancreatic cancer. I never knew til well into his last year on earth because he just stayed quiet about it. He was a POW in a 'river cage', for five years and did 3 official tours in Viet Nam and was captured, having parachuted into enemy territory and landed with a bamboo spike going through his foot. He was stuck and they saw him come down and heard him when he landed on that spike. He was well thought of in the area here and many youth he mentored work in LEO and such today. He taught me things about the Mohawks and the Cherokee relationship over the centuries and some bushcraft skills. He had PTSD but never would have let it hurt anyone and really was a super nice fellow , salt of the earth who respected the earth. I miss him very much.

oh no. I am so sorry.

October, a slow 2 mile walk. It is a start.

It really helps to have an extra set of dpns in the necessary size when you have to backtrack like that, btw.

I was working on the heel and gusset last night........ um, thought I was doing sooooo good.......... I couldn't believe it, when I realized I had moved to the gusset work before I did the heel turn....... aw, gee whiz........ so I backtracked.... sigh.

Have to do the heel turn now, then the gusset!

Need to run errands first, so later today I will work on it when I am done with errands and some chores.

If that happened in this town, nobody would allow them to either. Too strange. I don't mind if someone, with an adult in charge and reasonable in appearance might knock on my door in the neighborhood and ask for some oddball items in a scavenger hunt, but to disrupt customers in a restaurant of any type is not ok. These days you don't know if its a real threat or not and I don't blame anyone being antsy about it.

Not every one is still in tune with local youth activities, especially if they are older and to tell you the truth, if I had been out with my son on a rare lunch , I wouldn't want to be interrupted and neither would he, at that age even. I do not give other people license to touch my hair or clothing either, no matter how much it may need it, on the spot. Not for silliness, anyway. Especially around food being served. My personal space bubble does not get violated. I doubt my son would have been into that at that age, either.

What if someone was scared enough they had a heart attack due to that sudden approach, or pulled out a concealed weapon in self defense mode, thinking they were going to be assaulted? I think this activity, by whoever started it and sponsors it should be notified of liabilities, and possible danger to the participants due to others thinking it may be a ploy to assault them and their defensive methods being swiftly employed and it becomes a really bad accidental injury or death situation because the sponsors did not think it through in today's climate of social unrest.

President Obama has just signed a two year budget deal but there are other spending bills that are being worked on too, in Congress, so I guess we all see what happens next on that stuff. Per Fox News video.

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While camping, it is safer to wear a wool sweater or coat around a campfire than a nylon/poly material around the campfire, because it doesn't really burn easily.

Acrylic will melt and burn , often into your skin when dealing with hot pans or dishes. ( CAUTION NOTE) .

Yep, always use wool for hot pads and oven gloves since it resists burning. Acrylic yarn is a huge no no. cotton is ok if dense but will burn / singe.

Your fingers are free to use when you make these.

I think there are times when I do both. My toes can turn blue when colder than the rest of me. I watched one man on my train ride to TX at Christmas time demonstrate his reynauds on his hands exposed to blasts of cold winds south of St Louis Dec 23 that year..... they went red then stark white in a matter of moments. It eventually damages the circulation and nerves.

One should NOT work in cold environments , such as freezers and coolers in stores. My feet and lower legs are affected easily too. Ears and nose can be as well.

So, wrist warmers and arm lengths with wrist warmers are nice for me to have available and I have been wanting to do them for forever! I can knit them in the round or do them flat on straight needles and just sew the seam up to one side. I have seen dozens of patterns for all weights of yarn but I can assure you , something lightweight is also beneficial and I won't be using chunky yarn. Just fingering/sock weights or up to worsted weight. It is also one of those stash buster items, you could use scrap balls of sock yarn and have fun with it or just some plain yarn you had. I think easy wash and dry is great if you wear them alot and I would. Possibly make up a few pair over time, and you could vary them for some fun.

I have also seen very elegant designs but for now some basic densely knit ones will do just fine.