And It’s The End of the Week!

I started a ‘knitting socks’ class yesterday, again with Young Co-Worker. We are learning the ‘magic loop’ method. I have watched videos on the internets, and read directions, but somehow the…magic…eluded me. I knitted Grandbebe Girl’s christmas stocking, so know the general techniques of sock knitting. However, that was a ginormous sock, and I was able to use a 16” circular needle for most of it. When using dpns, I tend to have loose stitches where the needles meet. I have tried many tricks to avoid such, but to no avail. I am hoping the magic loop method will help with this plight of mine. My project is bebe socks for Grandbebe Girls 1st birthday!

Monday, I am taking a vacation day (Yes! Another!) for a field trip to the Brown Sheep Company in Nebraska with Spinning Co-Worker, Spinning Neighbor, and other Knitting Peeps. Local scuttlebutt has that it is quite the place to see…and shop. Makes for another short workweek, and we have Friday as a holiday the week after. Yea for short weeks!

I am shopping for a memory upgrade for my computer, too. I want my Little Friend to work more better faster gooder smoother when I am photozapping. Always with the speed! It is a learning process, and one that is not straightforward. I suppose life has always been this way, and, if it was not, progress would not be…progressing. I sometimes think I would just like to rest with the knowledge I have in certain fields, like annuities, mutual funds, and healthcare savings accounts, or computer RAM, ghost discs/ backups, and spyware. Bleh. I just want to learn what’s fun to learn. You know, things like spinning, sock knitting, photozapping, my way around Ravelry, gardening stuff, and such like. I do like to learn new computer…things. I just get intimidated by the vast amounts of what I don’t know.

I have the Forest Canopy about ½ done. Alison’s Scarf is languishing at about the same place. And now I have a bebe sock started. I have 1 oz. of roving (merino/alpaca/silk) on the spindle that I want to ply with something. (Maybe the ball of blue merino?) I finished 3(?) oz of the ‘Hot Tamale’ wool/silk that will be plied with itself…or something else? These design questions are difficult for me. Wonder what it would look like with the orange merino? Wonder what I would knit it into? I want to start a scarf for Eldest Daughter out of the ‘Vanilla and Chocolate’, and I have another special project planned for some homespun. And something else I want to try is to measure my spinning for wpi. Will that be rewarding?

Wonderful Guy and I are planning to have breakfast tomorrow with Grandbebe Girl and her parents, and perhaps her aunt will be there, too. I believe the weather this weekend will be nice enough to spend some time out of doors for a walk, maybe up in the mountains even. I will probably even tour the yard in hopes of seeing a green sprig pushing it’s head up.