I cut my little finger last week in a horrific cheese grating accident; parmesano reggiano into a beautiful blue israeli bowl which cracked, and disconnected a lovely little piece of flesh. shock, the angle of my finger looked funny, blood, firsthand experience of Canadian universal health care (totally ok), glued up, bandage, home to knit... Wait. I knit every day, have done so for 20 years, with much more intensity since this winter when my contract wasn't renewed. Egad! But I have to knit, and I ultimately found a way, with socks. Just the right gauge of needles, little hand movement, no touching of the pinkie finger, no splitting of building scab. Socks good, sweaters bad, coats really really bad. So the pink confection on 8mm needles that might be a coat or a cape will have to wait until I have a really good solid scab. In the mean-time, I'll finish another pair of socks.