I’ve tried to surreptitiously work on the socks for my mother-in-law while at work this week. When I started them back in May, my approach was knitting both at the same time on two circs. That didn’t turn out well and I frogged both and put it away for a while.
A few weeks ago, I realized that mil had been here in April (yes, I wrote April) and that I should at least work to have one sock done for her in the next month or so. I cast on again, but decided to magic loop it. I realized yesterday why you need a circ longer than 16 inches for magic looping.
So I frogged again.
On the other hand, since I rejoined Yarn Pirate I received more of her circs. The cable is extra long and perfect for magic looping. See - I can do it. (Not that you can tell with a dog schnoz in the way)
The boys are being cute this morning. They each took their turn sitting next to me in bed before realizing that I wasn’t going to go back to sleep.
(hey Lucky, why so serious? ha ha ha)
Hubby will be home Sunday. Woohoo!!
I discovered the ISO/FS/Destash board on Ravelry. It will be the death of my yarn diet if I don’t walk away now.
I’ve purchased some yarn from Ayana that she had posted there (it’s the same brand/style I’m using for Mom’s Clap, but a different color way). I’ve also purchased a beautiful black Cole Haan bag. It is just the bag I’ve been holding out for fall/summer to/from work. These purchases plus Yarn Pirate’s Booty Club (that I rejoined and from which received my “first” shipment on Monday–see below for a bad picture)
plus Cosmic Fiber’s Notorious yarn club will have me rolling in more sock yarn than I know what to do with. I’ll have to be selective in what I keep and try to trade the ones I’m not in love with for dupes of ones I do so that I can make larger items.
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Dear Postal Carrier:
Thank you for delivering our mail. We appreciate your timeliness and dedication to your job. That being said please don’t shove any more mail in my mailbox. Just prop it against my door (like you do with most other big items). Just because the box is 5”x8”x3” doesn’t mean that it fits in my 5.25”x8.25”x5 mailbox. Okay-dokey. Thanks again.
Love,
Me
Once I got the box out of the mailbox –which involved prying open the box while it was in the mailbox, extracting the contents (Notorious yarn, baybee!!!), and then trying to mash the box up for removal—I took the following picture of the colorway and the roving I received yesterday too. Yes, that’s more Plum & Berries (approximately 3.2 ounces) and eight ounces of natural roving too. I’m very excited.
The Notorious colorway cracks me up. I’m a little fuzzy on the actual name, but it’s inspired by the colors one gets when Kool-Aid is used as a dye. Why Kool-Aid? Reverend Jim Jones. More details about the sock yarn club can be found here. I sold the first two months worth of yarn (Hannibal Lecter and Mme. DeFarge) because while I liked them, they weren’t my cup of tea. This months and May’s however, LOVE THEM!!!
On the Tour de Fleece front, I started my plying on Tuesday evening after knitting group. (I spent Sunday and Monday evening winding my singles off the spindle into little cakes.) I’m pleased with my progress and took the mess with me to our impromptu knitting night last night too. I bought more roving because it is beautiful and a dream to work with (and I also want to have enough for someone to make something semi-substantial with). I doubt I’ll actually knit it up myself as I’m sure I’ll be tired of the colors by the time I finally get around to it. (Note to self: need to take pics of this)
My friend, Joanna, is organizing Knitting Olympics for our group. I’m going to wuss out and not choose a new challenging pattern to work on. Instead, my goal is to actually finish a couple of my WIPs. I swear, I’m such a spastic (and slow) knitter. A quick mental count shows that I have 9 projects on the needles (one of them is almost two years old and another is a year old).
MUST.FINISH.SOMETHING.BEFORE.CASTING.ON.FOR.(YET).ANOTHER.PROJECT
