Dippers Redux
As promised, the cleaned up version of Dippers is now available. Again, the old one wasn't exactly wrong -- lots of people made them with great success. It just wasn't quite as tidy as I wanted it to be. And, again, alas, no new pictures. Apparently socks get fuzzy and [...]
Grave Concerns
Ya'll are awesome. You really are. You answer my questions and give me yarn tips and read my ramblings and make my socks. Generally speaking, you are a wise and helpful bunch. But some among you have recently caused me to have some grave concerns. You seem unnaturally interested in [...]
Unintended Restraint
The plan was to just get whatever I wanted. I really don't buy much yarn, I use what I buy (and the accountant swears it's a business expense), and yarn is a better souvenir than a postcard. I intended to indulge. Apparently giving yourself permission to buy it all ahead [...]
Slant Redux
The spiffed up version of Slant is now up. It's two pages shorter, and yet contains more actual useful information. I told you I was shamelessly chatty back then. Alas, I could not get new pictures for you. I still have the socks, but a year and a half of [...]
Strike A Pose
Sunday morning it was time to head back to Halifax. We corralled our stuff (somehow it had rather spread out after four days at the cabin) and cleaned up the kitchen (making grill soup in the dark being a surprisingly messy endeavor). But before we could leave, we had a [...]
Shows Continued Improvement
You know how you look back on those (dreadfully earnest and sickeningly leaden) papers you wrote your first year of college and just wince? Or maybe it's entries in your high school journal or your first few blog entries that make you cringe. Well I did that the other day. [...]
Pleased To Meet You
We had plenty of warning. We knew Earl was coming and so had decided to stay in on Saturday. In the days before, we had visited two yarn stores, a book store, a game store, a grocery store, and two distilleries. We were well provisioned. We spent the morning in [...]
Blocking
I spent the weekend blocking the socks for the book. Well, not the whole weekend, it doesn't exactly involve a lot of active work, mostly five minutes of soaking and stretching followed by a few hours of waiting for things to dry. Sheri at The Loopy Ewe was kind enough [...]
Drumroll Please
And the winner is Christine! Check out her lovely socks, I know she'll put the yarn to good use. I've sent off an email to ask for a mailing address. And to answer her question, the Sock Plus 8 is a bit more tightly twisted than SG Bugga, and the [...]
Hit the Beach
Since we had driven up the western side of the Cabot Trail on Thursday, we thought we'd check out the eastern side on Friday. Before we set out, we took advantage of the clear weather and the dock at our cabin to take the final photos of Socky. He very [...]
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