Exposed

When someone has a problem, sometimes it’s necessary to bring that problem into the light.

By exposing the dirty side, one can finally start to get clean.

With that, I show you my recent yarn purchases (not including Stitches).

A multi-colored weaver’s cotton, 2 cones of Wildfoote and some nice, plastic baby yarn, along with 4 skeins of Sugar ‘n’ Cream cotton.

This is where the wheedling starts.

The cones of yarn and the baby yarn are for the sock machine.  You can’t just whack an expensive yarn on the machine and churn out socks.  Nope.  You need to use inexpensive stuff until you know what you’re doing. I’m thinking the learning curve is somewhere around 6 – 9 months.

The SnC cotton?  Welllllll.  I bought them because they were ON SALE.  Also because I vaguely remember a pattern that I saw somewhere that used this yarn.

See?  I have plans for it all!

Who wants to be my sponsor?

Back On Track?

Yesterday was the first time in 9 weeks that I was able to bowl.  I only played one game and threw a 140, which isn’t spectacular - my average at the end of last season was a 159 – but I did it without pain and that was a good thing.

Does the blurry make my butt look big?

Next week I’m hoping to bowl the first two of three games.  The doc said to get back into it gradually and I’d hate to over-do and end up spending another 8 weeks wearing a brace.

If the wrist continues to feel good, I’m going to get back to the sock knitting machine on Saturday.

Hand cranking requires a fair amount of wrist action and I’m aiming my sights on doing a total sock.

S’all for today.

Yawn.

Go West, Young Marker

I surprised myself and was able to make up 100 stitch markers, get them packaged and shipped out – all in a week.  Not bad considering the bum wrist.

Now they’re off to the West Coast, to be part of the goodie bags, for the lucky knitters going to Knot Hysteria.

I’m jealous of my own “kids”.

Sigh.

Hey, Bright Eyes

Oh, darn.  Found this post just a few days late.