knitting in the dark

It’s been quite a week here in Cleveland and I am excited to be leaving later this evening. I have just a few more images to share before I go…

This was the beautiful morning we had a few days ago in between all the rain and snow:

This is the cute courtyard in the middle of the Cleveland Play House:

And this is where I’ve spent my last week; at the tech table:

And I really actually ran out of brown sock yarn for my father’s socks, but my mother found a ball of it at Weaving Works in Seattle (which is really one of my favorite knitting stores anywhere) where I originally purchased the yarn and mailed it to my apartment so it should be there waiting for me when I get home!

I put the second brown sock on a string so I could use the needles for another project. I finished the first red stripey sock months ago - like in April… and I’ve been meaning to knit the second ever since. At least this pair will be completed during Socktoberfest even if the brown pair isn’t.

I’m so so happy to be going home tonight. Whenever I leave NYC for more than a few days I start to miss it, but this time has been particularly excruciating because there really isn’t much to do in Cleveland while not working. Even the people who have lived here for years had a hard time telling me what I should do with my free time…

So, as previously mentioned, I’m in Cleveland this week to remount RFK at The Cleveland Play House. Saturday was a beautiful day here - and we only worked a half day - so I took this opportunity to explore the city a little. I started at the LYS: Fine Points on Larchmere. The online reviews seemed promising, but I was disappointed. They had nothing to solve my dilemma regarding my father’s Christmas socks and they had only one skein of a beautiful Koigu PPPM colorway (in which I’m usually not interested, but this one seemed pretty for some reason).

I then drove out Cedar Road and back through Shaker Square (where I’m staying):

Next I drove out and back through Little Italy and the University:

This building reminded me of NYU’s Bobst Library:

This is the wall along the perimeter of the beautiful Lake View Cemetery:

And the Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Little Italy:

I wish it were nice like this again today as today is my day off, but instead there is a lovely mix of rain and snow falling from the sky. I might just go see a movie this afternoon rather than trying to explore the city any more.

Okay, okay - I’m convinced; I’m in love with short-row toes for socks. But I still think a sl1, k1 heel flap seems more sturdy than a short-row heel. And I’d forgotten what big feet my father has and am therefore running out of yarn. Apparently his two-color socks will need to be three colors unless the local Cleveland yarn shop has Fortissima Socka in this brown color that I’ve been using. I suppose the third option would be for him to have shorter socks than I would usually make him but I think they’re really still too short for that:

I had to get up this morning while it was still dark to go focus lights in a dark theatre. And it was dark when I left the theatre at the end of the day. I hate that. And it’s raining that steady incessant rain - not a drizzle - not showers - but steady umbrella-necessitating rain. And it’s been doing that ALL DAY.