Knitting Passion

Okay, so I am originally from Ohio (hence the link the other day to the Columbus 451 website) - but I have webby friends who live in Iowa - and I saw a referrer from one of 451’s pages to Iowa State University, so they are my inter-link of the day.

Not so much about the University today . . . but a Heads Up and a big congratulations to the state of Iowa for accomplishing what few thought they could . . . they caucused and named two non-front runners as their candidates for president!!! Way to pull together, Iowans!

Anyway . . . (as Ellen Degeneres would sigh) . . . several months ago I purchased a socks knitting book. As I’ve been doing the baby socks my fingers started itching to do some big people socks. And, I just happen to have several skeins of sock yarn . . . so . . .

Here’s the first one and the second one is ready to start the heel.

I actually combined two of the patterns - using the cuff from one and the bottom from the other. I think I would make the cuff a teensy bit longer the next time, but like them shorter than I have made in the past. Actually, I’m pretty proud of myself for deviating from a pattern.

I am SO compulsive when it comes to patterns usually. I seldom deviate - okay, I NEVER deviate - from the original. So, this was a breaking out of sorts for me.

Yay, me!

Hope you’re enjoying your - last week of vacation - first week back after the holidays - or whatever it is you are celebrating. Life’s good, isn’t it?
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You’ve got the cutest little baby socks . . .

All right, I know that is not how the song goes (Baby Face . . . you’ve got the cutest little baby face) But it fits, okay?

See, I told you - they are just cute! (click for larger view)

I sent the orange ones and the ones with yellow and purple off today for my friend’s grandbaby to be in England. The white with pink, blue and yellow splashes and the blue stripey ones are for a yet to be named new mama - a friend of my youngest daughter’s. A girl could wear either pair, but as they fit a 3-6 month old, a little boy’s daddy might think twice about the pair with the pink splashes, I guess.

So, now I’m working on another orange pair. They really work up quickly and I’ve figured out one problem with the pattern so that they seem to go together fairly well. I hope the new mamas like them.

The pattern is from a calendar - a box of patterns, one per day - that my friend gave me for my birthday last January. Well, I noticed a blog address on the page so went looking - just for you, my faithful readers - and voila! The pattern is available on the web!

Baby Socks Trust me when I tell you just how easy they are to knit and how quickly they use up those leftover bits of sock yarn you have hither and yon. I don’t care if you are sick to death of knitting socks and want to NEVER knit another sock again - these are FUN and you will enjoy them. Please write and let me know you’ve done some - and send me pictures - I’ll post them with your blog address - or at least your first name (if you don’t blog).

Came home from work early again today - each day I make it just a bit longer, but really get pooped still! I am not used to not having my body do as I tell it, by the way. Fell asleep in my chair again - saw bits and pieces of different junk tv shows - but was reduced to tears by a rerun on Rachael Ray. The story about the wedding being planned secretly by the groom - well, I just thought that was the neatest thing. Good for you, mister!!!!!

So, I’ve been watching way too much trash tv - lots of court stuff - judge judy, divorce court, judge hatchett . . . do these people get PAID to go on tv and act the fool? Or are they just like that for free? Oh, my, some of the stuff they come up with.

Hope your first couple days of 2008 have brought you everything you could desire - see you soon!

. . . towards 2008 - still half an hour away Alaska time. However, I am here to wish you

That’s my alter ego, of course -the moose of a certain color, that is. It would seem the PurpleMoose and his cohorts got into somebody’s stash and have been having a high old time - and they couldn’t even go out and get party hats . . . instead they raided my newly finished knit baby socks and put them on their racks!!! There is no shame in the moosie family, I’m afraid. (hahaha- 2008 is gonna be another laughing year, yes?)

In the meantime, while I was looking for another 451 Press link to publish here, I thought - HEY, they must CERTAINLY have a city link to Columbus, Ohio, right? Well, it turns out they do. Tadah! (they are 4 hours ahead of us, so have been snoozing into the new year for better than 3 hours now).

I will have to keep up with this blog over the next couple of months as hubby and I are taking our oldest granddaughter to Columbus in March. We met there (I was born there) and were married there and had both of our daughters there. I have only lived in two states - AND two towns - in my whole life! (sad, huh?) 28 years in Ohio and nearly 30 years now in Alaska.

Granddaughter and I were to have gone to Washington, D.C. with her history class over spring break, but her teacher had to cancel the trip. Hubby and I didn’t want to see her miss out on a trip (her brother and I went on the D.C. trip two years ago), so the three of us will be going back to our old stomping grounds.

We will show her where we went to school, where he gave me my first kiss (behind the mummy which was at that time in the museum on OSUs campus - but is now in the Ohio Historical Society museum on the fairgrounds), where we were married and where her mama and aunt were born. We will also introduce her to my aunt and his aunt . . . give her a little sense of her own history.

I am hoping to give her a journal to keep while we are traveling - and her mama is giving her a digital movie/still camera for a digital journal. We are all looking forward to it.

Hope you all have a safe and sober new year’s eve - and a wonderful 2008!