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Dontcha just love when you can't put a project down and you're knittingknittingknitting so fast and furious that you find you've come to the end of a first skein and ready to add another? You then take a look and smile at what you've accomplished so far, until you see that you've forgotten to add an increase at one of the 4 markers...and um, it's FOURTEEN rows back?!!
Yeah. Me neither.
So I started this:
I can't believe I hadn't said anything earlier! Sockapalooooza! The person that I knit the sockapalooza socks for is Laura aka Affiknitty!! I am seriously relieved that the socks fit her!! HUGE SIGH OF RELIEF over here, I'm just sayin'. She wrote a really nice post about them here. I love that she actually liked the chocogummies! If you haven't tried them, I know it sounds really odd, but man are they gooood.
I can't believe how many Monkeys were made this time around! It's kind of fun to have a pair knowing that there are tons of other people who are wearing their monkeys as well!
So, the pink sweater...I can't seem to put it down. knitknitknitknit. Finally though, I needed to stop to give my arms a break. You wanna see? Take a little peek...
I am really liking this so far...and I pray that I will not look like a football player in a pink sweater once I have it on my shoulders.
Now...should I make that trip to WW? Hmmm. Okay, if I do, this has GOT to be the last purchase until I work my way through my stash. I've said it. Now I've got to stick to it. Stick to your ticket.
The day was so overcast today and now it's pouring...I managed to get out and run all of my errands just before it started to rain. What timing! Now for a little recap.
What's a girl to do on a rainy day, except to put her Sockapaloozas on for an errand run?
First off, who knew that Kirkland had such a nice post office? I didn't. Also, big-up to the signage people who have marked our little town noting which way each point of interest is. I thought I had an idea of where the post office was, until I realized that I was still too far North. Sure enough, those little blue signs with the arrows pointed the way very clearly! I half expected a townsperson from Oz to pop up from the brush with a little flower on their head...follow the little blue signs...!
After that I headed across the bridge to Weaving Works. I have had a $20 punchcard burning a hole in my wallet for months and I've always wanted a pink sweater. Yes. Pink. When I got close, I saw there was some kind of fair going on. Great. I thought it would be packed at the yarn store (yeah what? no idea why I thought this.). There were 2 other cars in the lot besides me. yay!
So...
Um. Have you seen the new Rowan Cocoon?!! My god. I wanted to put every single skein into my bag and run out of the store. Seriously. (I didn't.) This stuff is so amazingly soft (and yes expensive)...3sts of glorious, soft sheen. yum. I am dreaming of what I can make with it right now. Oh, and um, faggoting. Excuse me?! Did you know that this is a basic lace stitch?! The things one learns at the LYS. Thanks to Barbara Walker's Treasury of course.
I did pick up the above yarn for a sweater that I've been knitting away on this evening. I really needed a sweater that wasn't so involved. That and I needed something besides the CNR to work on. I've been pretty monogamous with that sweater for long enough (ha!).
While I was in the neighborhood, I couldn't drive home w/o stopping at Acorn Street first, right? I wanted to see whether they also carried Karabella, alas, no. But then again, I really shouldn't be buying more yarn when I have so much stashed already...right? Argh.
Although at WW, I heard a woman say she printed out her coupon from the web and I perked up. WHAT?!! Sure enough, I searched my mail and found the coupon. yay! 20% off. I may go back tomorrow.
So a few things.
I got my invite for Ravelry! yay! I have one friend. hahahaha! Actually I haven't really been looking much at the site (yet), but I'm wondering how it all works. So far I've only been adding things to the queue. I don't even have my profile updated. Do you have a Ravelry account? Let me know so that I can add you! ^__^
Another thing, the new Rowan mag was on my doorstep when I returned from the Vegas conference! That was kinda fun to come home to for sure...
The last thing, I keep seeing TONS of people knitting baby stuff. Baby stuff looks so fun & addicting!! But, remember these? Okay. I honestly did not want or expect an over-indulging mention of thanks...but I definitely could not have prepared for the reply that I received. Instead of an even lackluster "thanks." I got an extremely condescending "Wowwww. You must have soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much time on your hands if you could knit this." Um. I wanted to say, "No. I wanted your baby to have them, so I set aside time every damn day to work on them until they were finished." I didn't. But, geezus! I was almost done with a matching hat, but after that comment from my friend's wife, I haven't picked it up and am considering frogging the project.
I've always wanted to try Artyarns Supermerino4! I can't tell you how many times I've looked at it, wondered how it would knit up, put it in my shopping cart and then moved along to something else w/o ordering...
Well, lucky me, Dani sent some in my Sockapalooza4 box! Perfect colors for me to boot. Check it out, doesn't it look yummy? Z asked for a closer look...
I somehow however, torqued my wrist really badly on Monday. I'm not exactly sure what the heck I did, but OMG my wrist hurts!! I could barely hold a pen yesterday. When I went to write my sockpal a note to include in the package, my writing was so wonky!! I swear I wasn't drunk or anything...really.
This does mean though that I should probably rest it and not knit...at least for today... ^_~
Well gosh. I made it back from the conferences for work safely, though I have never been so exhausted in my entire life. The conferences were in Vegas...which in theory sounds like fun, but the early morning and all day briefings which then morphed into dinner with co-workers, late into the early morning 'fun' afterwards and all of the smoke really can wear one down. Repeat this many times. Oh yes. And there was the 100° weather while we were there...and no, it wasn't the typical dry desert heat. Vegas was having thunderstorms, so it rained off and on and um...talk about muggy. Thank god for the A/C in the hotels, but wow, it felt like hitting a wall when we had to go outside to go to another location. I think I also got heat exhaustion b/c I wasn't drinking enough water.
After retrieiving my luggage from the Alaska flight to find that my suitcase handle was completely ripped off on one side...seriously, was it stuck under the plane wheels and pulled SO hard that this happened...I headed home. While I've had the suitcase for awhile, I've only used it about 8 times and the handle was more than sturdy and could have handled even the average baggage handler. At least mine didn't come out completely wet (inside contents wet as well) and stinky as one of my friend's suitcases did. (I'm not sure if I want to know what his suitcase was drenched in.) We had to go and buy him clothes while his regular clothes were being laundered (he was from out-of-town, but came into Seattle for a continued work visit). The good news is, Alaska is going to pay for the repairs (had NO idea they'd do this, thanks to Scott for the idea!) and the luggage place will direct-bill Alaska, so no funds had to leave my hands for this.
Better news was...when I came home, after wearily lugging my broken-handled suitcase up the flights of stairs (thank goodness there was a handle still operating on the horizontal side), I saw a box on my stoop. I didn't remember ordering anything, so I was confused. Confused and exhausted I should say. Seriously, the late nights went into last week since my out-of-town friend was here...not that I was happy to see him go, but I really could use the sleep. Back to the box. It finally dawned on me the next day what it might be (I told you...I've been EXHAUSTED)! I opened it and saw this:
Ohhh...so excited!! It was my socks!! The card...soooo funny!!
I slowly unwrapped it...oooo!
And then...
Apparently my sockpal finished my socks ON HER HONEYMOON! (yes I am yelling that, b/c Danielle...you really didn't need to do that! ^__^) The proof? My socks have seen more sights than I have!!
I absolutely LOVE my socks. Love love love them!! I've always wanted Monkeys, yet have never seemed to knit myself a pair. I LOVE the color!! It is absolutely, hands down one of favs!! la la la, such a happy color. I tried them on and I noticed that Danielle even made my socks with shortrow heels!! While this definitely was not a prerequisite from me, I do have to say that type of heel fits me the best, so I am absolutely thrilled that they were made this way!
See for yourself!
Danielle even included some skeins for future socks...and how did she know that I would LOVE those colors as well?!! I am thrilled, over the moon, estatic with my new treasures. Danielle, really, thank you SO much, these socks will be treasured for the days to come! I will be wearing them to work tomorrow!! yay!
