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This is the beginning of my sockapalOOOza socks. The yarn is Regia Cotton Surf Color #5411, and I’m using a free pattern from sockbug called Lacy Scallops. I’m beyond pleased with how the pattern is working with the colors of the yarn, especially with the picot edging on top! It’s also going pretty quickly: this [...]
Where did the weekend go? Seriously, I have no idea where the past 48 hours went. I feel like I accomplished absolutely nothing at all, although there is some progress on my knitting, most of the laundry is done, and there are groceries in the house, so I guess I must have done something. I [...]
I’m pretty sure every other knitting blogger out there has joined the Knitting Olympics. Knowing that I was going to get my yarn for FLAK right about now and that the rehearsal schedule for Sound of Music was going to get more intense kept me from jumping in with all of them. But the Olympics [...]
Carrie has started naming her books. I know of at least 5 books that she has names for: The Going To Bed Book is “toothbrush” because the animals all “brush and brush and brush their teeth”, Spot’s First Easter is “duck” because there’s a little yellow chick on the front, The Belly Button Book is [...]
Yesterday I was so sick. I had one of those headaches where you feel like if you turn your head too quickly your brain just sort of sloshes around in your skull, and it was making me really nauseous. I’ve never had a hangover before, but if I had to guess what it feels like [...]
We went to a Superbowl party tonight, but left at halftime so we could get Carrie to bed. Obviously, I missed a lot of the commercials, but of the ones I saw my favorite is definitely the streaker sheep Budweiser commercial. There was a prize for most unique appetizer at the party, and I won [...]
My swatch for FLAK is finished and blocked, and I’m really happy with how it came out. I decided to swatch the cables it originally called for before trying to substitute any of them, and I like how they came out so much I’m not going to bother switching anything. The cable I didn’t think [...]
Well, I was going to post about how I finished my swatch for FLAK, except that it’s blocking right now and I haven’t taken a picture of it yet. So, when I stumbled on this fun little thing over at chrisknits, I figured why not? Ten Top Trivia Tips about Sarahsthreads! The risk of being [...]
The groundhog predicted six “more” weeks of winter. But we haven’t really had any weeks of winter at all yet. I mean, by now we should be socked in with snow. I think Denis has used the snowblower once this winter, and only because it was the first time there was even enough snow to [...]
I skipped right over November, December and January so I could have one done in time! And let me tell you, I was really tired of looking at the October cross-stitch by the time last night rolled around. But this one turned out cute, I think, and I have the next few months done through [...]