I enjoyed my visit. Will have to come back to watch that avocado cam. I got a kick out of your kids moving home making clutter, I'm with you.... my stuff is never clutter (esp. the yarn) in spite of what my 18 year old tells me when she is trying to clean the living room!

I love your color choices for those socks. I made a stranded hat this winter in similar colors and I just love it!

You'll enjoy the kids back I am sure...great looking sock!

I from time to time toy with [gasp] trying something different!! with socks, but then I, too, think "why change?!" and continue on with my top down, heel flap wonders. I figure the time it would take me to mess around and try something new, I could have cranked out at least one pair of socks. Happy Wednesday!!

I am inexplicably drawn to the avocado cam despite the lack of sprouts or roots!

I have yet to switch to short-row heels too, since heel flaps always worked out and the socks are fine. But I guess someday I'll try short-row heels just so I know I can do it.

I'm not sure you'd consider it a "real" experiment, but every now and then I'll try something slightly new, and if the results are ok then the thing becomes a gift. I did this recently with scarf-sized shawls--to see how they'd look. But I used a color that really didn't look so good on me. I decided I liked the small shawl, but the first one ended up as a present.

My husband did this thing with the avacado, upon rooting we planted it in a nice big planter with lots of sun in our little apt. bedroom. The little bugger got to almost two feet tall...before my cat decided to snack on it that is...better luck!

First of all; YARN IS NOT CLUTTER, never, ever!

I can't wait for the next installment of The Avocado Cam!

Oh Dear, I need a glass of water, I need to sit down, I really cannot take this much exciting Avocado Cam at once. Please, Sandy dear, give us a warning next time won't you? lol

And yarn...clutter? Hush your mouth, never. Secretly I'll bet your glad to see their clutter back in your uncluttered corners.

Avocados are so hard to propagate in the kitchen, I wonder how they do it in the wild!...

I spent the entire weekend de-cluttering (and then cleaning all the newly exposed surfaces.) It's exhausting, but it gives me a powerful incentive not to let things get so out-of-control next time. Seriously, I have sore muscles everywhere from all the lifting and bending and carrying. Yikes! Good luck getting the kids to put all their stuff back in their rooms. ;-)

I haven't tried the short row heel...but I figure "if it ain't broke don't fix it"...so I'll stick with my comfortable heel flap! LOL!!

Congrats on having the offspring back home!!

Your Avocado Cam is about as thrilling as MY Amaryllis Cam.

XOXO

I've tried the short row heel but I have to say I like they heel flap and I'm sticking with it!

Beautiful pansies!

The honeymoon is over, eh?

I really hear you about NOT experimenting with gift socks. Someone a while back asked me about doing that I said "BAD PLAN!" heh Sunlight on your pansies is a lovely sight. Surely it will help you overcome the feeling you get when you see baskets of kid stuff in every corner. :)

The best luck I've had with avocados is to just put the pit in a small zip lock bag with a tiny bit of water and zip it up until it sprouts. Then I potted them up and had healthy plants.
Good luck!

Whoa....the kids come back?

We have an avocado seed growing at our house. It has been growing well for about 8-9 months, and is about 2.5 feet tall. I hope yours does well! We have tried a couple times in the past. It doesn't always work well. However yours looks promising.

My stuff isn't clutter but my husband's stuff drives me NUTS. Hope the kids' stuff isn't as irritating. ;)

The new IK has a really good sock article, with instructions and diagrams for short row heels that make sense. I can never do the flap ones - I always end up with leftover sts that should have been picked up somewhere.

I have done avocados in moist sand, and it worked better for me than in water. It helps to have a seed starting heat tray, too... just be careful that Fig doesn't eat the plant!

Yay!

Yarn is never clutter. Your stuff is never clutter. Anything that is not yours or Fig's is clutter. And how full could it be when you've only got the two kids?

/runs like hell