This summer I did a lot of small trips with the kids. We found new splash pads in town, and went out of town a few times too. One trip was to the awesome Cobourg Beach. Due to trying to fit in so many activities before the girls went to daycamp, we were down to two possible days to go to this beach. I choose the earlier of the two days as I really thought we'd be doing something else on the other day, which was also a Friday so I wasn't keen to head out on the highway on a Friday.
The morning of the beach trip started out nice, but by the time we headed out, big grey clouds had formed, and we actually had a few drops of rain on the way. The beach was not crowded at all, but man! was the water ever cold, despite being a shallow and usually warm, beach.
After I forced the kids out of the water, I had to warm up a little. Wool socks in progress was my only option!
Two at a time, toe up, magic loop on KnitPicks nickel circulars. Yarn is Patons Kroy Stripes in Mulberry, that I had picked up on clearance from Michaels'. Instead of the Fleegle heel, or a short row heel, I did a similar idea to the last pair, except that I made the increases as yarn overs. Then, I also included vertical rows of yarn over/dec in the center. I did a heel flap (sort of like the Fleegle heel) and brought the yarn overs (now paired with a dec) back towards the middle. Then, when they met at the middle, I went down a needle size and did a band of lace diamonds. I went down the needle size because the number of sts needed, based on the stitch repeat, was exactly what I had, and eyelet patterns tend to be larger gauge. When I got to the mid-point of the diamonds, I started ribbing between each diamond. I'll show more pictures later when I'm done. I thought I might do some diamonds with travelling stitches, but I can't be bothered now, LOL.
It did clear up and warm up slightly....as we were near the end of our visit!
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