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August 27, 2007
Socks, Mittens, and Books!
I've been getting a lot accomplished this past week. I've been cleaning, knitting, spinning, and carding. On top of working, fixing my coworker's home computer, and going to a baseball going. There was even a little bit of sleep in there somewhere!
To start off, I took off work a few hours early so I could get to the fair grounds to pick up my fair entries. There was a comment from a judge on the back of my shawl's tag. "Class 46 would have been the place to enter this. Beautiful work." Class 46 is the miscellaneous category. You know, the one my mittens took second in. Apparently, the batty old coots judging thought it was a table cloth. WHO THE HELL MAKES A TABLECLOTH OUT OF WOOL?????? Fine, if that's how we're going to roll, then next year there better be a blue ribbon on my 'tablecloth.' My first project for KSF 2008 is done.
Next, my Crystalline Lattice Socks are done. I'm very happy with them and they are quite comfy.
I've started on my next project.
This mitten is the first in a pair called Kylan. Haven't heard of them? Kylan is supposedly the most popular name for boys in Norway. I liked it, so that's what I named them. That's right, it's my pattern. I'm planning on writing it up, once the initial pair is complete. At that time, the pattern will be available for a small fee from this site.
I also received 4 books I'd ordered last week. Talk about yarn prøn! They are filled with wonderful mittens, gloves, socks, hats, and scarves. Really, you'd die if you saw them. (And yes, I'm bringing them to knitting tomorrow!) All of the books are from Raumagarn. The titles are Oppskrifter på Luer, Votter, og Strømper, Selbustrikk, Votter og luer, and Strømper og sokker Votter og Vanter, Luer Pannerbånd og Skjerf. Yes, they are all in Norwegian, but fortunately they did come with a list of knitting terms. I'm pretty psyched about these books.
I was going to post pictures of my clean apartment, but I'll save that for the next post. My carding and spinning pictures can also wait. I'll be getting something new for spinning soon, and I'll post them all at the same time. It gives you something to look forward to.
And finally, I didn't get the promotion, but I'm only a bit down. After all, I'm still relatively new and I haven't had claims training. My time is coming soon though!
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