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How do you mess up a beautiful day like this?? With a really bad knot like this! I need to find my glasses:)

Knitting has been a bit boring, just adding to the dish towel collection. I did pull my Drunk SOB blanket. I stalled out on for a while because the black I was using was like knitting with poodle hair, really hard on my eyes. Only one row left of that yarn so I’ll get it done and start on light grey. My daughter has her own Flickr page now for her art, she just needs to sort through it all and decide what to upload. Good time for her to start a real portfolio. She’s still rocking straight A’s and placed at 11th grade test scores. Really proud of her.

I pull out a few balls of stash/leftover yarn and my daughter says “Your not using those colors together are you?” To which I reply “I am now:)” Sox, I decided on sox. The colors reminded me of the SouthWest so I am calling them Pueblo sox.

I’ve been mixing the thin confetti yarn with the orange and turquoise with random stripes. Hopefully I’ll be able to figure out what I did for the second sock. Pretty bad about taking notes as I go! Thought I’d add a bit of color work and bird fetishes seemed to fit the bill. If all goes well I’ll add a arrowhead to the back of the heal.

UPDATE; I had to finish one heel with the arrowhead. Used a relief stitch with one strand of confetti yarn to give it a rock look. Really pleased with how it came out. Still need to figure out the foot and the toe.

A year and a half in the making! I am really pleased with how these are looking. I stopped this project well over a year ago because I couldn’t get the toe right & the heal gusset was to long. It was a bit tricky getting the gauge right using the different yarns. I finally pulled them back out to fix them. Here’s the old sock..

I switched to one strand and a lighter shade of alpaca for the toe & heel instead of two. When I started the toe I had 60 stitches of the sock yarm. It worked out to be the same gauge using the alpaca *K2tg, K1* repeating around. I still need to finish the heel to toe on the second and sew in the zippers. Toe doesn’t look pointy with your foot in it:)

Yes, I am!

What is wrong with everyone? I swear I don’t understand why people make the choice to be so mean! I know life’s not perfect and times are tuff but it’s no excuse to be hurtful.

How is it I failed to see that a seemingly large percentage of society has stopped caring? I guess I thought it was just a temporary bad mood because of the economy. A man sat in his warm car next to me today honking his horn at a elderly woman crossing the street with her walker. I swear if I could afford the jail time I would have gotten out of my car and beat the crap out of him! I spent the rest of the day trying to counter his behavior. I see seniors and terminally ill people all day and it fells good to tell them they look nice or make small talk about the holidays, their pets etc. We all need to feel somebody cares, that we have some purpose and are valued. It really takes a second to smile at somebisn’t, hold the door for them, compliment a piece of their clothing etc. Who knows, it might feel just a good to you as it does to them. But what do I know….

Snow is amazing and it makes me feel fantastic!!!