Last weekend’s stop on the Summer Wedding Circuit was Okoboji, Iowa, home of one of my beloved college roommates. The thing that’s special about Okoboji (well, one of the things) is the lake. Here’s the handsome husband posing on the Queen II in said lake:

I’m under the impression that every boat owner in the whole midwest visits Okoboji in the summer. It’s quite the hopping scene. After our freshman year of college, Mia and I came out to see Kate’s hometown for the 4th of July, and there was much merriment. So I was delighted to have the chance to go back this year for Kate’s wedding. It was an excellent reunion with college friends and Kate’s wonderful family, and the wedding couldn’t have been more perfect (well, maybe if it hadn’t been 100 degrees outside…).

I even did a little knitting on the plane and in Kate’s mom’s coffee shop. Now that my US #0 circs are free from the baby booties, I finally got to pull out my Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock in “Sand Ridge”. I’m such a fan of this yarn, and this colorway, but I know how many people have had pooling problems with it. And I really hate pooling. So I knew exactly what this yarn was destined to become: feather-and-fan socks, of course. I’ve wanted to make these for ages, and although I don’t own Socks, Socks, Socks, I was able to steal a peek at it in the LYS and quickly memorize the pattern. Kate is always up for any goofiness, so I asked her to hold the sock for a picture the morning after the wedding:

All too soon, it was time to head back to NYC. But on the drive up to the Minneapolis airport, we had to stop to see the Green Giant.

And here’s a sock’s eye view:

It’s been rather slow going with this sock. I had to tink a bunch of rows yesterday because I’d missed a yarn over. I don’t know why it took me so long to figure out that I had the wrong number of stitches. But hopefully I’ll have a pair done in time for sock weather.