well the girls came over and we knitted, and we ate and we drank...and it was fun! and it only took about a thousand tries, well not really a thousand but at least a gopod ten tries but i got cast on for chickami. i think i'll make it as a twinset with the one skein wonder or maybe with the boob holder top but i don't know. decisions decisions. and i'm either gonna make it with a block of purple at the bottom and them use some multicolored artful yarns fable or i'll stripe it i just don't know. but thats all that is really going on. i got some help and i think i ow know how to do the eyelets to finish up my bad penny. and i still ahve theat second sleeve to sew onto my moms sweater but things are going well.
ok, now for a knitting update :) i know thats what you really wanted to see. here are the contents of the sockpalOOOza package that goes out in one week. i am so excited! counterclockwise from lower left: there is a sock tote for her to use the next time she knits a pair of socks, the socks, postits. my favorite way to mark patterns, a card telling her all about her socks, a postcard of longs peak to show where i'm from, a birthday card fror her to share with a knitting friend on a special day, and stitch markers. yeay! i love presents! i can't wait to mail this! and on to current knitting... so a few weeks ago i went down to highlands ranch for the Littleton meetup, i went next door to string to do a yarn exchange. thats like free yarn you know. and picked up 7 balls of this elsabeth lavold sily wool. ooooh. wonderful yarn! i know, there are only 4 in the photo. thats because my italy cardigain is well under way. 2 balls in i just stared the third and i love love love this y...
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