I have knitted many things since I last wrote - I want to have pictures posted soon. 

 Socks, of course.  Especially an intarsia pair from Cat Bordhi’s “Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles”, and the Mermaid Socks from Lucy Neatby’s “Cool Socks, Warm Feet.”   I hardly ever make socks from patterns, but here I am, making two pairs. 

 I love the Estonian Fishtail pattern from the Mermaid Socks (also featured in Nancy Bush’s Estoninan knitting book).  It twists around in spiral fashion, but one never needs to move the end-of-round marker or transfer stitches from needle to needle to accomplish the k2tog’s.  One of those utterly fascinating knitting mysteries.  The socks seem almost garish, but I think in a good way.  I like the Neatby book because it has many ideas to use patterned sock yarn.

 What I need to do now is go and hide a million intarsia tails - that pair will be so beautiful when finished.