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well i got together with the girls tonight. we had a great time knitting. it was good to see everybody. and, wonder of wonders i actually made progress tonight. got the soles of the ballet slippers done and started up te body of one! woo hoo. i might actually get these done before christmas! and even better, i finally got to see string. (and try as i might i can't find a wesite for this store. go figure) i absolutely love that shop! i can't believe i never went there! and i even picked up some yarn to make this . i've been trying to decide what to make it from and i found the perfect solution! that will be my travel knitting. i'll also take a pair of socks to work on, if i can find my sock yarn. oh and dave's hat...long car trip what can i say?

oh, so i just watched must love dogs. (which i do, especially the big stupid ones) and as a person recently subjected to the personal ad hell thing (by myself of course) i have to say if i ever and i mean ever answered my own father's personal ad i think i would have issues for the rest of my LIFE! hell, some the guys i did out with should qualify me for couch time... but tell me, how come john cusack didn't come along ans sweep me off my feet? huh. oh well.

sorry, but really i thought it would never be done! imen it looks like one hat but really its two... and i think it turned out ok. it was my first try at double knitting. i figured if he wanted it to be warm it would be this way. but not too warm since its acrylic. yes, i know, but he lives in houston! what am i supposed to do? give the kid heat stroke by using wool? its caron simply soft, and as far as acrylic goes i could do worse i guess, and it is stash yarn so. anyway, i'm yeah. i'll shut up! oh, and if you're wondering, "he" is my nephew, 15 (i think) geez am i terrible or what??? so here it is finished. hope he likes it. and another thing, so that i don't have to knit full sized stuff for the rest of the family, don't have time but relaly want to make a little sweater for my other nephew, he's 3, wouldn't something 3 year old sized be cute??? wow, i'm getting wierd...anyway, as for everybody who you haven't seen presents knttie...

oops i can't believe i forgot my sis in law's...i think they're married...long sotry anyway...her slipper socks! super soft and warm must go to mail these and my brother's hat tomorrow...

hey heres an updated photo of my entrelac bag i'm loving this, or i will once i get back to it...see below. and as promised i finished up through the hood on rogue. i cast on and did the cuffs of the sleeves, but i may need the needles so they are probably going onto holders! and i never did show you mom's socks... with a close up of the cables...i got bored... and finally its been sooo cold lately i had to dip into the stash to make me a new hat! i have enough left over of the thaki shannon to stripe the cuffs of mittens to match. i plan to use brown sheep for the hands since i don't have enough of the loft leftover from dave's first hat (total disaster) after using it to stripe my hat :)

so it started with this suri merino from the bargain bin... and i had promised to make dave a hat... (yeah i know he thought the last one was too big but its ok. he likes the way my brother's turned out so if i can duplicate the result...anyway. and i have to make 2 pair of the fiber trends felted ballet slippers... and the icing on the cake michaels had a secret sale on novelty and i've been eyeing this ticker tape ribbon yarn for a year... so there we have it my no buying yarn promise out the window...but $2.79??? how could i resist? and in my defense this hat for my nephew (his christmas hat shhhh don't tell) is entirely made of stash yarn. so i've moved 2 balls from stash to leftovers after i finish this so i'm not completely fired...the question is can i finish it? that and the slippers. well just one pair, but both before christmas??? no i'mnot crazy, i'm not talking about the real christmas the one thats a few days after the real christmas. the o...

so i promised to post about mom's sweater! everybody at work loved it. she wore it last week when it was sooooo cold. and it didn't fall to pieces on her so i'll assume its done :) geez that project was an exercise in procrastination, one full year from cast on to first wear i think!