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I am done with the Stose Socklettes and they will be in her hot little hands Tuesday when we are due to get back to the office. I am amused that they fit in the little box that a bracelet I was given came in. I am slowly making progress on the office. I have 12 shelves cleaned and arranged into some sense of order, of course they will be rearranged many more times before it's done. I have found many books that I will probably take to Half Price Books, others that I'll move to the living room or into the guest bedroom/husbands office. Once the knitting room/office is set up and complete I will post those pictures. It's a sunny day here finally. Our city was encased in fog for the past three days, thick enough that I couldn't see my neighbors across the street, nor any stop lights till I was right up on them so it made driving exciting. The weather today makes me itchy to get on my bicycle but even though it's sunny it's a bit cold and my winter riding gear is pr...

This is what I wanted to do all day today, sit back with my feet up, and knit on the Stose Socklettes. Instead I was productive....I went to my mother-in-laws, took her tree down, we went out to lunch, I drove her to the grocery store and I am just now getting home, this started at 8:30 this morning. So, now I'm going to try and kick back, put my feet up and relax for the rest of the evening, tomorrow maybe I'll take my tree down....by the way, how do you like my first pair of socks that I knit over a year ago. I love them....worsted weight, 100% wool with a cashmere wool blend toe and heel.

The second socklette of the Stose Socklettes Below you will see the first Stose Socklette size 5 1/2 as compares to my size 10. God bless friends with little feet, hand knit socks go so much faster....... My friend Marcy and I are going to be doing a group project, also known as a knit-along of a sock pattern called Nasturtium that I found here.. http://throughtheloops.typepad.com/through_the_loops/ What a great site. The yarn is from http://www.angoravalley.com/ and the colorway is appropriately named, NASTURTIUM.... The project starts on Tuesday during our lunch break.. as it progress' I will post pictures of my sock and Marcy's. Here is a delicious wool that was given to my by my sister-in-law for Christmas, it came with 3 others just like it. I hit Ravelry today to see if there was a scarf pattern that would strike my fancy, there wasn't an actual pattern but a member on there had knit up a scarf that was exactly what I was looking for so she said that she would writ...

It's been my goal for about 4 months now to get my yarn stash under control......Well I use the word control loosely as I have yarn spilling out of an empty flower pot in the corner of my living room that is surrounded by more yarn, a couple rubber maid totes full of yarn, i could go on forever. The plan is to organize the office upstairs into a office and yarn/knitting room. Up till now it was more of a storage space for stuff that we didn't know what to do with when we moved in 5 years ago, well it's going to change now! However the process of going through 5 years of storage can be frustrating at times as well as amusing. Last night I found a VHS player, I didn't think we even owned one in our previous house, but there it was. I found a couple old dog toys from our first boxer Baily which just about sent the other two dogs through the roof with wanting to play with them, i have to sew them shut, i'm guessing that's why they are in the office in the first pla...

Please bear with me, this is my first blog and I plan on working on it this weekend adding images, and basically talking about me, as interesting as that can be. Enjoy!