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Friday, May 07, 2004
How it all relates.
This, my friends, is the Friday rap up.
I was winding my yarn from Sonnet frogged and I looked down and realized something. I have proof positive that "seven degrees of knitting" works. Monday's post was about shoes and boots. Did you think it was totally unrelated to knitting? Today I present proof to you: 
That happens to be the fabulous anime face boots holding my hank of yarn so I can wind it. I say "Who needs a swift, when you have fabulous tall boots?"
Now just to show you I haven't been totally slacking:
This is for a sweater for my cousin's daughter who happens to be my daughter's best bud. They get all giddy over having semi matching things. This will be a sweater for little V's 4th birthday in August. I have the body done and I need to do the raglan sleeves which will be done in lime or purple. I've stalled wondering if I should use up my lime or go out and buy some purple Cottontots.
I finished the back of Kate and am about 3 inches done on the ribbing of the front. The back looks wide doesn't it? Darn it! I was sure it was going to be small and fitted. We'll just have to wait and see. I haven't been working on her in favor of finishing up things for others. You'll notice that I didn't bind off the neck. I don't like how they did it. Instead of binding off and picking up stitches later, I'm just going to pick up and work the live stitches.
This is the Highland Triangle Shawl by Cheryl Oberle from Folk Shawls. I finished the first repeat. Not too impressive yet. I think I will favor this one over Kate when I get time to work on my projects.
So what am I working on?
Mom's socks for Mother's day is item number one. I had serious second sock syndrome with those. I'm at the toe and pretty sure I can finish it up in time for Sunday. I have no idea what we are doing for MIL.
The other project has a deadline of May 15th and I just got the yarn in yesterday. Yipes. I can do it though. It is a lot of knitting but that is all I'm going to be knitting until its done. except for finishing up Mom's sock of course.
I've also decided to sell some of my yarns. I ordered some more yarn the other day. I couldn't help it. I have a design I want to do and I needed yarn. To ease my guilt at killing the budget once again, I need to do something. I have a few handspun yarns I've been hanging onto just because they are pretty but I have no desire to knit with them. I also have a few others. I'll give a hollar when I post them.
I leave you for the weekend with some drink recipes. I'm particularly interested and a little scared of the "Corpse Reviver". The site I've pointed you to also has some really cool retro stuff on it. There's plenty for you to check out while you avoid working on a sunny Friday afternoon.