FO: Camo Footies

Love these.  My first Koigu socks.   Koigu….. mmmmmm.  It’s everything everyone said it was.Pattern:  my own, just a basic 64 stitch sock, top down, with a regular heel flap.  Size 2 DPNs.
Yarn:  Koigu KPPPM, the green is P325, and the gray is P312.  the gray seems much softer than the green for some reason.And, just for [...]

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Oh Yes I Did!

Life is too short.  Besides, it just made me happy.  And, sometimes just knowing it will make certain people twitch is reason enough )

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Sing With Me…

ala Sesame Street, “One of these things is not like the other….“Two of these things are kind-of the same….”
Go ahead and laugh.   Kaity’s still laughing at me.  Even worse, I didn’t even notice my heel was knit on sideways until I was about 1″ from being finished with the socks.  So much for my first toe-up socks.
Oy.
But [...]

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I’ve still got it – well, sometimes

(door slam) “Oh man!  It’s SO great to come home to homemade cookies after a day of school like today … thanks Mom!!” – my son, age 21.
I’m so glad I made cookies today.
See, I’ve been enjoying all the Mother’s Day posts, but I’ve especially enjoying the ones written by moms of very young kids, and how much they [...]

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Happiness is…

…learning something new.
My first short row heel!

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How Much Knit Would A Knitter Knit…

…if a knitter were on a cruise???Well, she’d start and finish a Koigu footie (started on the car ride to the cruise ship, and finished on the bus trip to the SeaTac Airport to go home… how’s that for cutting it close!)  Yes, it’s just one sock so far.Here it is with our cutie-pie waiter, [...]

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Lovin’ Victoria

After a rough Wednesday and Wednes-night at sea, we arrive in beautiful Victoria, Canada.  Silly me, I didn’t even know it was an island until we got there.  SUCH a beautiful place.  We decided not to join the organized tour of Victoria and decided to tour the city on our own.  We we looked up the [...]

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We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled “Cruise News”…

to show you what was waiting for me when I got home!!
I participated in Lynne’s Special Swap – and look what goodies my swap partner, Emily, me!
The theme of the swap was to send your swap partner on a mini-vacation anywhere in the world, and Emily sent me to Japan with this beautiful and amazingly [...]

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Where To Start?!

I guess I’ll just start with the first few days!  I’m pretty sure when Royal Caribbean agreed to sign on 89 knitters for a cruise – we were not what they were expecting.  By the end of the cruise we were pretty famous.  “Oh – you’re one of the knitters! – Oh, look honey… she’s knitting!”  [...]

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It Definitely was a Bon Voyage

We’re back!   The cruise was AMAZING.  If only for the 5 days of sittting around and knitting with friends it would have been wonderful, but then there was…
the food, 

the beautiful ship,

and check out the freebies from just the first day!

But wait, there’s more!  No, really, you have to wait.  As soon as I catch up [...]

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