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Willis Carrier is a god.

However, even a god's creations are subject to the laws of physics, which state that cool air sinks and warm air rises. I live on the topmost floor of a walk-up apartment building, and my a/c is a unit designed for a single room, and my bed is in the highest part of the apartment.

I think I"m not even going to try to sleep on the bed tonight. Couch ahoy.

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Hm.

92 stitches of a yarn that's 185 yds/50 gm (you are mixing your measurement systems WHY GOD WHY). Two circular size zero needles. Two skeins of the main colour, one skein each of the two contrasting colours.

I have five size zero needles. I have two skeins of the main colour yarn, which is 267m/100g. This is (267 * 39 / 36) = 289 yd/skein. 289/100 = 144ish yd/50 gm. Marginally heavier than the weight called for in the pattern, but still. 185*2 = 370 < two skeins of what I've got so NEENER NEENER.

One skein of the contrasting colour should be enough given that we are talking about a bit of bicoloured ribbing, possibly two repeats of the pattern motif (it's sixty bloody stitches across), and a little stripey around the toes and heels. Barring that, it's a hand dyed wacky multicolour colourway so sod the whole Same Dye Lot nonsense. Split the yarn distribution up a bit so that when I'm doing the pattern I put thirty stitches on each of the two needles directly involved in the pattern, and the remaining 32 are distributed with 16 sts each on the other two needles; switch this around when I do the next pattern repeat...

yeah. Yeah, I think I can do it. I'll have to do up a gauge swatch tonight to see if I'm hitting the right stitch size, but I think I have the pattern that I can adapt into the Socks of Rassilon.