I got contacts today. First time ever. But they’re weird ones. I have “perfect, 20/20 long distance vision”, according to the eye doctor, but I have found that more and more I am reaching for reading glasses when doing things close up. (Like knitting, sometimes. And reading.) I used to think it was hilarious when “older” people had to hold things at arms length to read them (because that SO does not make sense) and now I’m one of them. So these contacts have reading magnification in the bottom of the contact and are clear on the top. I suppose I’ll get used to them, but right now you all seem a bit blurry to me. I’m anxious to try knitting with them – maybe tonight. (I know – midweek knitting! WOOT! I told you it was one of my summer goals.)
Speaking of summer goals, I saw a list on someone’s blog about the things they wanted to get knitted up this summer and it got me to thinking about what I wanted to knit up over the next few months. So here is my list of wishes:
– pairs to all of my twinless socks (and I believe there might be 15 or so. sigh.)
– finish my Sea Silk shawl in the Nova Scotia colorway (because I’d also like to do something in the Aegean Sea Silk and the Melon Sea Silk. And I love Schaefer Andrea, so I set aside a skein of Empress Wu Zhao, and I also like Helen’s Laces a lot, and so have a skein of Vera set aside in that. Then of course there’s an amazing skein that Susie at Perchance to Knit sent me, but I can’t show that to you or you’ll want it. I’ll wait until we have it in stock to tease you like that. I really really like knitting lace. Almost as much as socks.) Lastly, I’d like a cashmere scarf out of this Jester colorway.
– work on a short-sleeved sweater that I started last year. (last year. brother.) It would be nice for fall, I think.
– and knit up new socks. Here are the yarns that are calling to me most loudly from my own stash. (There’s more in the stash, but these are the first ones I’d knit up this summer if I had unlimited knitting time.)
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Perchance to Knit (special colorway called “Sheri Baby” from Susie) J-Knits New Mexico Woolly Boully Brooklyn Candy The Knittery Earth sKNITches Syncopation Collegiate Zen String Bart & Louise (this just arrived today and I have been waiting for my own skein of Bart & Louise! It will be up in the next Sneak Up.) |
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Fleece Artist Sea Wool Pinata sKNITches Kettle Drum Thunderclap Gypsy Knits BFL Merry Go Round Yarntini Cherry Cordial Perchance to Knit Primarily |
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Urban GypZ Twisted Curry with Raisins (new indie dyer to us, coming soon!) Seacoast Panda Pheasant Cider Moon Casual Friday Opal Rainforest Toucan Regia Stretch Toronto |
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Yarn Pirate Loopy BluesSeacoast Bee Balm Opal Neon 1937 Yarn Pirate BFL (special colorway from Georgia called “Zoe”) Posh Tweed Coat Claudia Blue Terra Cotta Claudia Sante Fe The Knittery Moonlight |
So how much of my summer knitting list do you think I’ll get done? (Did I mention that I need to find more time in my day/week for knitting?) What’s on your list for the summer?
No blog on Friday – I’ll be winging my way to the TNNA Market in Ohio. I’ll let you know all about it next week when I’m back!
Sheri andwillIevergetusedtotheseforeignobjectsinmyeyes?
I got new contacts last week. I have ok vision, it isn’t great, but as my eye doc said – he expected it to be so much worse. Why? because my stupid astigmatism is SO bad. I actually compensate really well for it without my glasses/contacts. but I am trying contacts again. Because I should be a good girl. You will get used to them, just make sure you wear them, that is the key.
I am afraid of my summer knitting list, so I am avoiding making one. That and I just plied my very first yarn. it isn’t pretty, but I love the colors, so maybe a small felted item.
I want to knit your stash. I am so envying some of those yarns. I can’t wait to see the socks that you are going to knit. I saw some Frank colors in there too. Way to go Sheri!!!!!!!!!
Oh the joy of contacts! *Sigh* The fires in Florida (okay so the smoke from the fires) have been drying mine as soon as I walk outside. Just some contact wearing advice… Always always always bring at least a contact case with solution in it so you don’t have to toss out your contacts if they’re driving you nuts. (I wish I had followed my own advice today at work). 🙂
And the yarn, all of the yarn… Makes me extremely envious! So many beautiful things, oh the possibilities! Your summer knitting list is much more fun than mine is. Mine is finish up all of my current projects. If that happens I’m going to start a sweater for my husband.
Can’t wait to see all the knitterly posts!
WOW – what a list. Love the “buffet” photos – you should warn us that there will be so much beautiful yarn. I must say, as you perhaps know, that my “buffet” is well stocked as well. I’m diligently working on a sock for my co-worker – and I feel confident that I will be able to finish it tomorrow before her party (I happen to like the pressure of a deadline looming at times).
Socks are PERFECT for summer knitting (just did a bit of it at a T-ball game tonight, with the sun brightly shining, and warmth overflowing! 🙂
Now, when will I knit those worsted wool sweaters for my nieces and nephews????
Your stash is so beautiful. I predict at least three pair of socks and the lace finished. Your stash is wonderful. Fun to peek in someone else’s closet 🙂
I’m not even sure that WENDY could knit all that over the summer! LOL
I wear progressive glasses (had to give up contacts several years ago). I know what you’re going through with the vision! MOST people told me “oh, no sweat, I got used to the different visions right away!” I had 3 weeks in which I could return the progressives and get single vision glasses and at the end of 2 weeks I was ready to do that–EVERYTHING seemed blurry (if you think it’s bad just with 20/20 + reading correction, try it with a couple of vision zones–ack!). I had constant headaches. Then I met one person who told me to stick with it–that it had taken him nearly 3 weeks and that one day it just “clicked” and he didn’t have to think about where and how to look and focus–it was just “natural.” He was right. So…it takes a different amount of time. So…hang in there on the vision and hang in with the contacts (that takes your eyes maybe a couple weeks to adjust too).
My summer knitting goals aren’t too ambitious–a couple pairs of socks, some lace (I have a cashmere scarf and a koigu shawl going with a bunch of cashwool ready to go), and finish a cabled sweater so it’s ready for cool weather. And…maybe a tank top or short sleeved top but I suspect I’ll finish that about the time it’s too cold to wear it this year. And snuggles–I’m making them for a small local shelter that takes in feline leukemia positive cats.
Nice looking stash. 😉
I have nothing set in stone that I’d like to knit other than the seraphim shawl, pomatomus socks, hedera socks and lots of other undecided socks and some bracelets. Nice small things I can take outside and knit on while the toddlers play and that I can take with me on our vacation to the Outer Banks.
Enjoy your time in OH, we have a great state if I do say so myself. 😀
Umm…wow. Good luck with all that! =)
I’ve had glasses since I was 9 years old–I don’t think I’d ever get used to contacts, if I were to try them.
Ooh, Sheri, that’s a beautiful stash!
With all the sock yarn I’ve been buying, I think I’d better plan to just knit socks all summer.
Enjoy TNNA. I went a few times when I was a yarn store employee–I can’t wait to hear about the great stuff you’ll find for us!
OMG! I didn’t know they even made those! I asked about reading contacts years ago when I was first prescribed them, because it’s a pain to have to take them out when I need to read stuff, and I was told they didn’t exist. I’m so going to have to check that out.
My knitting list is ever fluid. I have a few things to finish, a few things to start (though I haven’t decided what). I’m an impulse knitter! No planning here!\
Also, looking at all your lovely center pull balls, I have to ask. Any plans for ball-winders or swifts in the future? Everyone keeps saying I should wind them by hand, but I always end up with center pull knots. Woe.
Sock yarns are like pokemon. Gotta catch ’em all.
My summer knitting list:
-finish the current baby blanket for the cousin
-make another baby blanket for my friend
-lots of baby socks (baby knitting is just too cute and I am very glad to know pregnant people at the moment!)
-my Snowdrop Shawl
-my newly acquired sock yarn for the summer of socks 🙂
-two pairs of Twinkletoes as an early start to Christmas knitting
Sorry if I post twice … had a little mishap here.
First of all I love those colors and I am wondering how is it possible that you have yarn I don’t have in my own little ‘store’ here. hehe
Summer knitting includes making up a few Christmas presents so I am not frantically knitting all autumn which is a gorgeous time of year here to play. I have a loosey goosey goal of trying to finish more than I start and a vaguely prioritized list of things I’d like to start. How’s that for an action plan?
Congrats on your new lenses Sheri. I hope you get used to them quickly. If not don’t monkey around but ask for something else. My last checkup they told me it was ‘strongly recommended’ I get bifocals (progressive lenses) and I cannot tell you how sorry I am I did it. Words cannot express how much I DETEST these idiotic things. I am getting a new exam with a new doctor soon and we will have a serious chat about the aforementioned DETEST factor. Anyway good luck with your contacts.
I keep hoping that as I age, farsightedness will compensate for nearsightedness, so I’ll need glasses for reading and needlework but can read the clock across the room without glasses. (However, I suspect that in actuality, I won’t be able to see anything without corrective lenses. Good thing I stitched up that little needlepoint-on-40-count-silk-gauze kit already!)
Summer knitting: I need to finish a shawl for my sister-in-law’s sister by July. (Eek! Coming up soon! Fortunately it’s a simple pattern.) There’s a sweater for myself that I’m saving to start on a June business trip. That pair of Fiber Trends felted clogs that I keep saying I’m going to start and then keep not starting.
And of course, socks. A pair of lace socks I started nearly a year ago (it’s a complicated pattern, so I keep setting it aside in favor of mindless socks). The current mindless socks (Apple Pie on the #1 needles, Panda Cotton on the #2). And whichever socks jump out of the stash after these are done.
GIve the contact about 2 weeks before you truly decide. I am in the same place and find my odd bifocal contacts (is that mutually exclusive??) take patience and time, mostly getting over the “where in the world is the ground” feeling and the “did I eat something poisonous?” feeling. I do like mine and really really like the fact I can wear sunglasses over them and not squint in my regular glasses… the joys of the age I suppose.
My grandson can not see much out of one eye- so when as a baby and toddler his parents had to patch his eye, they bravely each took a turn wearing a patch for a single day. They said the vertigo and weirdness of it all made them grateful for their vision and made his tantrums over the dang patchs much easier. I guess it is all relevant, huh?
Have a ball this weekend!!
I had to go over to the dark side and get reading glasses a few years ago (my arms just got too short to hold anything at a distance where I could make out the letters!) so you have all my sympathy with the contacts. Good luck!
I am drooling over the colors of your stash. My list for the summer: finish up a couple pairs of socks and make some baby things for my husband’s cousin who is expecting. Maybe start some more socks but I don’t want to excite myself. Besides, we are going to be flooded with house guests this summer, so my knitting time will be severely curtailed by cleaning time (shudder), cooking time, laundry time….
I’m afraid to make a list of my knitting plans. For just summer or otherwise. I’m sure in no time it would get so long as to be terrifying and I’d flail even more than I already do. I’d like to finish my sock club socks at least. When I had to get progressive bifocals this year i goofed and took a book to check for the magnification I needed. It turns out I need more for knitting than for reading. So I am probably going to have to get another pair of glasses for that sort of work. Sigh.
I’ve worn contacts since I was 11 and wouldn’t have it any other way. You can get used to them pretty quick, or you might not, as my totally eye-squeamish brother determined back in his twenties. The bifocal thing would take extra getting used to, I think.
Summer knitting will be the same as winter knitting – socks socks socks, whatever my heart desires from the stash, except one pair in Panda Cotton for my Mom and one summer top in bamboo for me. Oh, and I’m starting to feel the need to make another lace shawl. I’ll have some good driving and flying time in June and July, so I’ll be needing different WIP’s for different situations. Any excuse…
I know my eyes are going to need glasses in the near future. But I can still see how amazing that Bart and Louise is…hopefully my fingers will be fast enought to get some next time. Have a safe trip!
Time marches on doesn’t it ?
I wear glasses for knitting and reading too and I’ve noticed when my glasses are missing my arms seem quite a bit shorter 🙂
Oh that yarn, you tease!!
You should find a sock buddy who will knit your second sock as their first and you do the same for her, that way you both get to try tons of new yarns and neither gets SSS!!
Like others have said, give your eyes time to get used to the contacts. When I wore them it would take a couple of weeks to adjust to a new prescription. Then I became allergic to contacts, broke out in an eye rash and got LASIK. But, I digress. 🙂
My summer knitting plan is SOCKS! Actually that’s my 2007 knitting plan. Once fall arrives, I only want to wear hand knit socks. I have 7 or 8 pair knit so far this year, so I think I can meet my goal.
Oh, Sheri the horrors and joys of new contacts! When I first got my contacts I had horrible trouble with them! This was right around last Christmas and I had a really hard time. I thought it was just me but the contacts were the wrong size for my eyes (and the wrong prescription, they weren’t best at the place I went to) but I kept going back until they got it right and now all is grand! My boss has bifocal contacts and she says it does take a while to get used to them but that it’s worth it in the end. I used to have 20/20 vision in all directions but my eyes have deteriorated rapidly in the last 4 years and I’m only 23! I got the glasses/contacts I’m wearing right now around Christmas and I think I need a new pair already. I have trouble with distance and with reading and I’m really struggling.
*sigh* But you will get used to contacts. They really are great!
Furthermore I LOVE Schaefer Andrea in the Empress Wu Zhao colourway,but I don’t really wear shawls and I don’t know anyone who really does. I will knit a shawl from some Sea Silk though for a costume my friend and I are designing and making together. I love Sea Silk!
Wow, bifocal contacts. I had a hard time getting use to the bifocal reading glasses that the eye doc stuck in one of my prescriptions. They drove me crazy! My new eye doc doesn’t think I need them now so they are gone, which was a bit of a relief.
I can’t wear contacts because of my allergies *sniff*. I tried them for awhile but my eyes are always dry. So for now I’m stuck with my glasses.
I think since I’m moving to MT where the winters get colder, I’d better start knitting on some winter stuff. I think it may feel a little weird to be knitting on hats, scarfs and mittens when it’s 103 degrees outside….good thing I have A/C. 🙂
So my goal this summer is to get more warm, fuzzy socks made and get some hats and scarfs knit up for everyone in my house. Hubby is asking for several hats to cover his bald head. The bad part is I have to make them black so he can wear them to work. *sigh* But I love my hubby and I want to make sure his clean shaven head doesn’t freeze this winter. 🙂
I have only one thing to say-DROOL! Good luck on the contacts. Never worked for me because I need trifocals. Ah, the joys of aging. Have fun at TNNA. I have one other thing to say-ENVY!
My summer knitting is all about my UFOs. I did an inventory last Christmas and discovered about 10 abandoned projects – abandoned for various reasons. I have finished 3 so far and will finish the others by summer’s end.
Have fun in Columbus! Make sure you visit the Cider Moon ladies.
Just a warning: it has been ungodly hot and muggy for the last few days in Cleveland and Columbus usually isn’t far off temp-wise.
Have a great time at TNNA! I’ll be waiting for your update, and my LYS owner is going, too. I’ll have vicarious knitting fun next week for sure!
Don’t make those lists too often. I find that sometimes they “overload” me and I can’t make decisions about what to work on next.
Last year I got new contacts and new glasses. Mine are also the bifocal ones. I hate contacts. I have always hated contacts. Not just these in particular…I am too lazy with them. I have only worn them once! But, I keep looking at the packages of them and I do have to try again. Sigh…
TNNA should be so much fun. My LYS owner went last year with a booth…am not sure she is again this year. She is the distributor for some gorgeous lace yarns.
Summer knitting…socks of course (you know all that yarn I have been buying from you) and now 2 friends are expecting so I am going to have to work in baby blankets. I also want to finish a lace scarf in Schaeffer Anne and I think when I finish the second sock I am now knitting I will get back to the scarf. Also started an alpacha shawl and work on it bit by bit. Now that the a/c is back in the window I might be able to knit something that heavy during the summer. I have lots of yarn for shawls and need a few for in my new office…a bit chilly in there and I bet winter will be really chilly.
Take care.
Hi Sheri,
I had to get bifocals
a while ago. I didn’t even need glasses until I was over 50.
I thought I would never get use to them, but I find that I really like them since I have to wear something to see what I’m knitting. I don’t
need them to drive, athough I don’t drive much anymore. My distance is still very good. My two sons wear contacts, but
my youngest son decided that he preferred his glasses. My sons are very handsome
with or without. Michael has been told a lot that he looks just like Kevin Costner.
My mother is very ill, and she is 98 but can still read without glasses.
I love your stash. Maybe I’ll just pop over and get some of yours.
You should be knitting all day everyday to get that all done. I start in January
making my presents for the following Christmas and still can’t get it done.
Happy Knitting!
Sheri, your eyes are in good company. I have astigmatism along as well as I’m far-sighted. I’m not yet to bifocals but I can no longer read fine print without my glasses. I think driving is about the only thing I can do that I don’t absolutely need my glasses. And I just turned 40! SHEESH!
Your sock stash is beautiful. The Knittery Earth and sKNITches Thunderclap are calling my name. Can’t you hear it? Heck, I think they are yelling.
My summer knitting consists of:
Finishing up ATH Skinny Dipping in the Monkey pattern (like in the next 3 days!)
Socks for step-DS
Finish up the Loopy Challenge and send to you
J Knits Indiana done up in the Twisted Flower by Cookie A
Loopy Ewe Fall Socks (can’t wait to to see the colors!), and
Socks for September. I can’t decide which yarn to knit. I have some Bearfoot (blues, purple and some green), Apple Laine in Blue Bayou, Fancy Image in a yellow/light orange colorway, or start some knee-hights in Louet Pearl in cream. Decisions, decisions, decisions…
Still living vicariously with a purple cast on my arm…three more weeks…enjoying reading your “to-do” list, (and thinking that I’d happily knit a cheap cotton dishcloth right now….) My lack of ability and time spent on your website makes me so much more appreciative of all of your hard work promoting this craft. Have fun with your projects!!
Welcome to Ohio, Sheri! Remember, we are all along shopping with you!!!
I am going to keep knitting on socks, just trying to make a dent in my stash. I loved that you showed us yours! Very pretty.
I have had contacts for several years and love them. My glasses have now moved to the rifocal stage. TRIFOCAL?? When asked if I had worn them before I didn’t know they existed. I am not yet 50 but apparantly my life long career of iitially working in the dark and then drastic increased computer use, work has gone digital has destroyed my eyes. SO there is closeup, farawy and in between like computer. Good luck with the lenses…your list is admirable. I can’t even think about mine. I will, but not now. And then I think it will be for the rest of the year, LOL. Have a ball at the TNAA? right letters. I would love to go to a place that was all knitting all the time…someday.
Thanks for showing us your stash – makes mine look pretty paltry, which, of course, was your intention. Right?
About the contacts: I’ve worn them since I was 20, and I hate to admit that’s 56 years! My vision has moved from being quite near-sighted as a child and wearing glasses to contacts that I wore all the time at 20 (and I did have trouble getting used to them – they’re right, you just have to wear them!!!) As I have aged, I have become less near sighted — you know that old saw about it’s not my eyes, it’s that my arms aren’t long enough. Well, I’ve advanced now to wearing just one contact for day-long activity, even driving. It gives mono-vision — I can read, watch TV, teach my students, etc.. The only time I wear two is when I go to the theatre, track meets, etc. where I want to see detail far away. If I’m not wanting to watch TV with subtitles (since we have a big screen), I often don’t put even the one in at all during the day. My eyes are so “numbed” from long use that I can get away with not wearing them for days and days…and still never feel them when I put them in after that. I definitely don’t need them for knitting – in fact, even better without if I’m picking up stitches!!!
Good luck with them Sheri. Be patient.
Joan
Oooooooooohhhhh! Pretty!!!
Best of luck with the contacts. I give you credit because I could never stick anything in my eye. I’m too much of a wuss! My list of things to knit is so long, I’ve given up adding to it. I just stick my hand in the stash box and whatever I pull out is what I knit! Safe trip and have fun!
well good grief already! I have a pitiful stash, I’M STASHLESS…… re-entering knitting so I have the one skein from Fleece Artist that I’m knitting and 12 skeins of a pink cotton circa 1814! Your stash is amazing, I am hanging my head in shame.
The best part? I know that soon enough I will be overflowing as the knitting passion is always at the forefront of my mind (and fingers).
Good luck on your contacts, I can’t wear them they just make be cranky. Instead I collect readers and have them in every color of the rainbow—- if ya’ gotta’ wear ’em might as well be perky about it!
Now, go knit woman!
Sheri, I’ve worn contacts for 35 years and it just takes patience. Over th years I’ve changed the types of lenses I wear, since lenses have improved since the early 1970’s :>. It’s worth it. My mother wears lenses like yours and it took her a few weeks to adjust.
I’ve got a few pair of socks and at least one quick summer sweater planned. I’m also hoping to complete a cardi in Rowman’s Calmer that about 3/4 done.
Question about lace – are you going to carry the Addi lace needles? I’m been drooling over your lace yarns (and have orderd some)., so some new lace needles would be a nice addition to my next order!
Wow, what a stash! I haven’t started socks yet, but there’s already a small (very small) sock yarn stash.
I’ve worn glasses since 4th grade, when I couldn’t see from the front of the room. Nearsighted with a lot of astigmatism. Lately, lots of changes, and the new glasses don’t seem to work a few weeks after I get them. So my husband says, go to a different doctor. Also, I’ve been having problems with sight in general — seeing better far away, not long enough arms for reading, can’t see the computer.
So I go to the new doctor, and get new prescriptions. Forget to mention to the doctor herself that I want progressives, so I don’t have to keep switching between pairs of glasses, but do mention it to the glasses-fitter (don’t know the proper term). Get fitted, drop off my near pair of glasses (’cause I still need to see to drive).
Come back in two weeks. Now previously, I could see at whatever prescription, from side to side of my lenses. A wide field of vision. No one told me that progressives, you can only see straight ahead in a thin line of vision. Far away (driving and such) is the top quarter-inch of the lenses, then it progresses from there down for seeing the computer to reading/knitting (at lap level) at the bottom. But, I can only see a word or two across on the computer or the page — all else is blurry until I move my head to see straight there. So my life is very blurry right now. I’m on the second week, so I do hope it gets better in week 3 as others have indicated. (AND, my glasses providers won’t refund the money. I’m trying to talk with them about this, as I wasn’t warned about the ramifications.)
Summer knitting. Well, I’m finishing up a few baby things for the new nephew and coming great-niece (my husband’s niece is having a girl), then I have some things I’d like to finish to enter into the county fair. Also need to make socks, since I keep pushing for new categories at the county fair, and it worked last year when we took them 20 hats, and they opened a new category. This year we voted on socks, and since I’m the instigator, I guess I have to enter socks. My wanna-knit list is hugely bigger than the time available.
thanksforlisteningtomywhine!
i’ve worn contacts since 2nd grade. it feels more normal to me to be wearing contacts than to not be wearing them.
i think you know what kind of knitting i have planned around here ;). i am very envious of that sock yarn stash of yours!!
IF I can get my paper down in time, you will get used to those strange things in your eyes. Me, I can never wear them. I have to wear glasses. But just think, you can now change the color of your eyes if you want to.
If you find you aren’t reaching your goals, stave off the guilt and send the offending yarn to me. Sigh. I love your stash.
Oh, and yes, I think you can get used to contacts. I’ve worn them since I was….um, wait a second, I have to count here…..11 years old. Yes, I’ve been wearing contacts that long and I find the maginifcation less annoying than glasses. It’s closer to your eye, so you don’t have the situation where you can see blurry around where your glasses aren’t. I used to wear contacts exclusively until I got a bad eye infection this fall and going back to glasses drove me batty a bit. I did get used to it, but for a while it seemed like there was a much bigger portion of my vision that my glasses didn’t cover than they did. Yes, I did get some of those skinny trendy ones….. But I don’t have bifocals so I can’t say for sure in your case. I’m just generally blind!
I’ve had contacts for years and they took a bit of getting used to, but now I can’t live without them. They are regular contacts though. I’m very near-sighted (pratically blind without my contacts), so I can’t imagine what bi-focal contacts would be like. I’m sure with time you will get used to them. As for summer knitting: Socks, Shawl, and B-day aran-style sweater for boyfriend (this is his 3rd sweater and we’ve been together for 9 years so the curse hasn’t applied….actually I think he’s sticking around so I can make him more socks and sweaters!) Have fun knitting!
Good luck with the contacts, it does take time, being very blind then needing reading glasses did not strike me as fair, but that’s life. have fun on your trip
Contacts scare me. Don’t want anything that close to my eyeball. Good luck!
Thanks for all the eye candy to drool over while you’re gone. Have a great time!
I really love that Bart & Louise. It reminds me of those catepillers that turn into monarch butterflies. I forget what they’re called, but they’re the ones that eat the milkweed leaves. I’d better get knocking down my stash so that I can add to it without arousing too much suspicion with my husband (who, by the way, wishes you wouldn’t go to TNNA).
By the way – when I switched to my bifocals (the kind without the line), i felt seasick for days. But now, I don’t even notice it – I bet it’ll be the same with you.
My mom had laser surgery, and she now has 20/20 vision, but she wears her glasses (with regular non-prescription lenses) because it feels weird to her to be without glasses! Go figure!
When I first got my close up contact I walked lopsided. One contact is for close up & the other is for distance. It took awhile but now I can’t differentiate between the 2! I love ’em.
I’ve got big plans to get a lot of knitting done this summer going back & forth to Carlyle to sail – when I have my granddaughter, Sofia, I don’t get much done. Her knew thing is to sit on my lap while a knit (maybe a future knitter???) which would be okay if she would hold her head still and not try to hold the yarn!
Can’t wait to see what you come back with from the convention!!!!
Yay on the contacts! I need something similar as I never put my reading glasses on when I should. Ah well. Love your stash! Very pretty!
I am going to:
– finish the Clementine Shawlette from Interweave.
– my walking away socks
– my falling leaves shawl
– finish my child’s play socks.
Then onto other knitting. 😉
Love your stash….I have the Yartini Cherry Cordial also and really want to knit it up but I’m waiting to find the perfect sock pattern!
Daddy always said his arms got shorter with age. If we were sitting across from each other in a restaurant, I’d just prop the menu up in front of me and let him read it from there. He was always “misplacing” his glasses.
Now… to finish off the Fleece Artist sock and dig into some of that loveliness that showed up at my door this week.
It sounds like my vision is much like yours. Everyone asks me to read signs for them in the distance, and I really should have glasses/contacts for reading—but I don’t. I hate the idea of taking glasses off and on all the time. Keep us posted on how the contacts work out; maybe they’re something I should look into.
It looks like you have a lot of wonderful summer knitting in store. I do, too–lots of socks (CM Glacier and Icicle, Seacoast Panda, and many others) as well as finishing a fir cone shawl, and starting a cabled sweater for my husband. I really love the Zen String Bart and Louise and after your update next week hope to be able to add that to my list, too!