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Thursday, February 19, 2004
Are we baking wool again?
I can just picture it. Out on the playground, one kid says “my mom bakes the best brownies”, Another says “my mom bakes the best cookies”, M says “my mom bakes wool”. I know this child is just dying for me to bake cookies or something other than dyed roving. She now assumes that when I’m baking, its going to be wool I’m pulling out. The sad thing is, she's probably right. 
I took another pic of the roving for my socks. partially because the other pic sucks and the more I look at it the more ideas I get. I think if I remove the roving with the x on it and just use the 3 that are there, maybe add a purple, I will make the king of all socks, argyles. 
This one is an idea that I had. I need to spin and knit it to see if it will work. I'll keep you posted. 
M got a very thoughtful gift today from Roxi She absolutley loves them. I had a hard time getting her take them off for a bath. Now I'm looking forward to my package. I'm so excited. I'm getting some of Roxi's gorgeous Quinalt roving. Its so pretty.
I worked like a dog today to get my orders done and get stuff for the door prizes this weekend. I promised to bring pottery and some other knitting accessories. the kiln is running and the accessories are packed. I've been planning on stopping by "spa" tomorrow for a short chitchat and then off to a hockey game. Then spend most of the day Saturday. I hear we are supposed to get some nasty storm on Saturday. Oh no, I may get snowed in and have to stay there overnight. So what if I have a big 4 wheel drive truck. No one has to know that.
Thank you for all the well wishes. My mom is doing good, my uncle is expected to be ok. I'm glad everyone likes my yellow, but its mine all mine.... ok. I can share. I did buy a whole bolt of it afterall. I think I may need to make a corset out of it now. Its too thick of a material to be too much else but I've made a couple of corsets before. The plaid would be a nice challenge. I have a couple of different leopard prints that I'm working on. After this weekend I'm going to really need to be sewing a ton to make up for all my fiber obsessed purchases.