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Heads up!

by barbara waters

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 . . .
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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?

Never mind that I went to the group I cofacilitate (after being gone for 3 weeks) an hour late! Sheesh! On Tuesdays it is from 7-9 pm. Tonight it was 5:30-7:30! I’ve been doing this for 6 months like clockwork. Give me a few weeks off to have some silly little surgery (hahahaha) and I am all flustered.

But, it was fun to walk in and be the butt of the joke! Seriously - it helps to break some of the tension. And, that is all good. Besides, I can laugh at myself just as well as the next person.

;)


Posted in Knitting, fun on January 4th, 2008

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