Summer knitting.....damn it's hot

It has been extremely hot lately, but that hasn't stopped me knitting. I finished a pair of bed socks in 8ply pure wool very late last night (they are for Berrima Women's Prison), and I was itching to find something else to start. I have been wanting to read through the Socks Soar on Two Circular Needles, and then try to knit socks using this method. So I got out the book and read through a bit of it, then I got the needles out, found some sock yarn, then decided that it was way after midnight and I should go to bed.

Today in this extreme heat we went for a ride for lunch down the coast, I told DH that it was going to be too hot to ride the bikes, but did he listen...NO, anyway we had a nice lunch and a lot of cold lemon water when we got home, and then I sat and got out the two circulars book, a pattern book for socks as I decided to try this method on a childs sock, and away I went. It is pretty easy so far, I will wait for better judgement when I have to turn the heel. I am only doing one sock at a time, not two like some people I know. I am using Patons Patonyle 4ply sock yarn, it was left over from my very first pair of socks I knitted for myself, the colours are knitting up nicely.

It is now 8.30pm and after an extremely hot summer day of over 40C this is the sunset I am looking at from my chair here at my computer as I type this post, it is beautiful. I have even put Ruby's quilt flat on her blanket in her kennel, she still lays under the quilt when sleeping, I hope tonight she will just stay on top as it is way to hot for her to be under it, and it would be much cooler to sleep on than sleeping on top of the blanket she always has slept on.