Not much spinning this week because my back is very uncomfortable in my spinning chair, but I was able to get quite a bit of knitting done from my spot on the couch. I'm slowly but surely making progress on my Cable & Diamond Lace Socks, and I got through the most difficult section (argyle) of our Xmas stockings. The cable socks don't look this shabby in real life, I promise. Because of the black-on-black, I had to lighten the picture to the point that it looks washed out.

I feel guilty about the stockings, because I kinda sorta stole the idea from a book that I did not purchase. ("A good artist borrows; a great artist steals.") I just couldn't bring myself to pay $30 for a book when I could take one look at the project and recreate it on my own, not to mention the fact that the book didn't have any other patterns that I would ever want to knit. I have justified my actions by emphasizing the fact that christmas stockings have existed for many years, and probably hundreds of them looked almost exactly like this one. So I'm not stealing from this one particular author; I'm stealing from a long line of pattern designers who each in turn stole from designers before them. The blame is easier to accept when I get to share it with so many others.