Progress
The gray socks are done and blocked. Tomorrow, if the weather and The Boy are agreeable, I'll get pictures (The Boy is generally agreeable, it's the weather that I have suspicions about). Look for the pattern some time around Tuesday of next week. Meanwhile, I'm going to do something scandalous [...]
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It's going to be a busy couple of weeks around here. The gray socks are coming out very shortly (next week if I have my way about it). Even more exciting, the website for Book the Second should be up the week after that. Somewhere along the way there may [...]
Doing the Math
A tiny bit of calculation has revealed that the current pair of socks will, when finished, be made up of about 14,400 stitches. A further bit of calculation has revealed that I've got about 1,550 stitches left to go before I finish the second sock. This means I am about [...]
Bodes Poorly
The universe hates me and wants me to die young. This is clear, because they have allowed an establishment called Sweetie Fry to open down the street from us. It started out as an ice cream and french fry place, which was quite dangerous enough. But now...now they've added a [...]
Snow!
Apparently I've sunk to the level of using my blog to record the weather. This is doubtless shameful. But I've checked, and there are far more shameful things on the internet, so I'm letting it slide. Because people...it snowed yesterday. And I almost missed it. I...erm...like snow. Especially the first [...]
Change of Plans
I was going to show you the gray sock's mate (heel just turned, coming along nicely). But for now I'll have to leave it to your imagination. I've got something much more amusing to show you. Do you remember back when I put carpet down in my side entrance? The [...]
Snag
From time to time, even the nicest yarn has little slubs and snags. This is, at most, an irritation. It's much less of a problem than knots. Knots mean you've got extra ends to weave in and they can mean breaks in the color progression. Slubs often just mean a [...]
Just One
We've established that patience isn't my strong suit. Not really at all. And we've established that one of the oh-so-very-nifty things about having your very own website and writing your very own books is that you can more or less do what you want. And I've also confessed that the [...]
Saturday Evening Post
I had two things I was supposed to do this weekend. Usually those things happen on Sunday evening. This weekend, I was feeling unusually noble and productive, so I did them on Saturday morning. Most of this week has been spent with my ears attuned to the tromp of the [...]
There’s a Plan
I'm a firm believer in the importance of plans. The current stage of Book the Second's plan involves double checking everything on paper. The way I do this is to *print it all out, read it, and make notes (the kind in ink on paper) of problems, go back to [...]
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