Knit me something?

At a recent spin-in, I chatted with a woman who used to knit professionally; she charged by the stitch. I calculated how many stitches I knit in one of my typical pairs of socks, figured $.01 per stitch, added a bit for the cost of the yarn, and arrived at $300. For a pair of my handknit socks. WOW! If I paid that much for a pair of socks, I would expect them to last forever, but they don't.

Dyeing: Started soaking yarn in the Indian hemp dye bath.
Knitting: Slaving away on socks.

Spinning: The eternal Romney.
Weaving: Threaded the heddle on my 24" Ashford, wound the warp around the back beam, now ready to tie onto the front, for a tote bag.

Blogger has a feature that tells me how many views my blog receives. In the past, the numbers have run to about 40 or so per posting. Lately, those numbers have jumped, in one case over 1000. I have to assume the additional views are from AI bots. To those of you who are real people, thank you for reading (or at least visiting) my blog. For the rest of the so-called viewers, welcome?