Yet more socks! These ones were knitted out of Trekking colour 100. This colour was very popular some time ago but for some reason I missed it then. After seeing the yarn actually being knitted, I knew I had to have some! It is definitely one of those colours which looks much better knitted up than it does on the ball.

Yet again the pattern is my basic ribbed sock pattern, these were knitted in my tired-and-brain-dead phase 🙂 I do love the colour, just putting them on makes the day a little brighter.

As well as my nice new glasses, I have been trialing contact lenses for the last week. It turns out that I am probably the most inept contact lense wearer on the planet. Never mind the first hurdle, I fell before I had even got out of the starting gate. The poor assistant who was teaching me how to put the lenses in and out had to put up with me taking nearly an hour to manage it, and then throwing my right lense on the floor. It turned out that that was the only one in my prescription that they had in the shop so they had to order me a new one. I am improving and have got it down to only (!) 20 minutes now, although I did spend 2 hours on Monday with my left lense inside out. These are toric lenses so I think this is actually quite an achievement! I am persevering (or possibly just very stubborn) and after my appointment today they are ordering me in another set of lenses in what I hope will be a slightly better prescription than the trial set. All good (moderately) clean fun 🙂

The teal top is jogging along, I will try for another photo or two tomorrow. I am hoping that the sun will come out (the eternal optomist that I am). It is lovely now that the days are getting longer. It makes so much difference to my enthusiasm to actually do things, although a bit of sun too wouldn’t go amiss. I have been a little distracted from the knitting by the yummy looking silk and bamboo yarn that Elann has on sale at the moment. Both Cassis and Arles Teal have been looking at me since yesterday and my will is weakening, the only decision left is how much to order? I think it would make a gorgeous lacey summer top.