Yesterday, while I was pouting about the Facebook Kills!! socks, I dragged out my sewing machine and started a pair of summer pants for me and then quickly moved on to drawstring project bags. Aren’t they cute?
These little bags are great. I bet you can’t make just one. Why yes, I am an enabler, why do you ask?
This yarn was on a time out. ::grumble::
Everything was just peachy until I got up to 38 stitches for the instep and the pooling turned around stabbed me in the back, just like it did the first time I tried this pattern with this yarn. Clearly this yarn wants to be something else. Plain vanilla socks? Or perhaps a lacy scarf? A hat? What say you, dear internet?
ZOMG, Webs. I <3 Webs.
Total for yesterday’s trip: just under $100 bucks. Which, funnily enough, is about the same as our behavioral health copay.
This morning I schlepped the kids (along with my friend Adrienne) up to Webs, America’s Yarn store to procure some therapy yarn.
We just got back. I’m exhausted, but happy, and have slightly less money than I started with.
Sadly, I used up the rest of today’s sunlight during the ride home. Sorry about that. Luckily there’ll be more tomorrow, so you’ll have to wait until then for photos of my haul. Webs is awesome. They definitely know what they are doing up there.
Cheers!
Luckily, there’s fiber. Always fiber.
It’s Star Wars Day, the holiday of, by, and for geeks! Here are 10 quotes from Episode V that would make great Facebook updates.
Now, go snuggle up with your favorite geek, gather up your little nerdlings and pop your favorite Episode into the DVD player. Episode V, amirite?
I’m in a bind. You see, I need a nice little project that travels well. Something mindless that I can tuck into my smallish purse and work on while I’m out and about. You know, at park day or in the waiting room at the dentist’s office or whatever. You have one of those projects, too, admit it. Anyway, Skew was decidedly not that project for me, so while I was working on Skew at home, I was taking my Involution Shawl out. It was the perfect traveling project. It was still sort of small, and oh-so-mindless. I could pick it up anywhere and sneak in a few stitches or rounds, and put it down without worrying about losing my place in the pattern. But now Skew is done and Involution has outgrown my purse, and I’m left trying to figure out what the heck to cast on that travels well.
Ever have one of those days where you let the dirty dishes pile up in the sink because you lack the motivation to empty the dishwasher, only to realize, when you finally do muster up the motivation, that the dishwasher is halfway full of dirty dishes?
This was our fourth year at this festival, and it was still awesome.
Evidently I was in a purpley sort of mood today.
Last night I cast off the second Skew sock.
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I’m so glad I didn’t follow through with my plan to abandon the second sock. It came out so beautifully. I love how the colors pooled and how the heel does that swirly thing.
Kudos to the designer for figuring out this elegant sock construction. Unlike “regular” socks (where you can sort of eye-ball the heel placement) Skew is hardly intuitive. But the pattern is clearly written and easy to follow, even though it was a challenge for me because I had to pay attention to it. It was a thoroughly enjoyable knit and I’m so pleased with the end result. And yes, I stopped the ribbing on the second sock about 1/2 an inch too soon. I’m okay with that.
Knitting Interrupted 
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