WIP Wednesday

It's that time of the week again.  I noticed the cats were playing with the camera while I busy looking for something.  I haven't found it yet.  There is a pattern I want from an old Workbasket.  I knew where it was in Rochester, I just can't remember where it is packed.  That is I hope it got packed in the boxes I have down here.

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Could you disturb this? Yeah, I couldn't either. However, when the need for a comfortable place to sit became greater than my want to avoid disturbing him, I gave him a gentle pet and he jumped right in the air like I pounced him. Poor thing. He's currently sharing with me.

Miss Bootsie wanted to introduce this week's WIP.

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Pink is my color, don't you agree?


She has high hopes. Where is the afghan? I'm still hooking away on it. I thought everyone might be sick of looking at what seems to be the same picture.

Yesterday, we needed to go to Wal-Mart for the bunnies Timothy pebbles. When D asked me if I needed any knitting stuff, I said I wanted to look at yarn. I found the blog attic24 last month and I've been wanting to make a granny square afghan ever since. I started out crocheting granny square many years ago. It's comfort crafting, like grilled cheese is comfort food.

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I love the new wrappers on the Simply Soft. I just picked out these two skeins, though they had some peach I really liked too. There is always another time. D never bugs me about how much I have started and I don't try to push it when he suggests I could get some yarn. I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with squares. My granddaughter loves pink, or she did when I was babysitting while my daughter was in a training program. I was thinking maybe a pillow or a small afghan for her for Christmas.

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Speaking of Christmas, I reading someone's blog last night and the had a Christmas countdown ticker that said 87 days until Christmas. I think I threw up a little at the thought. Unless, I get a job between now and Thanksgiving I will have to break my rule and make presents this year.

It's a good thing my neighbor Di pointed out to me she reads my blog via Facebook.  I totally forgot I had linked up on Networked Blogs.  *waves* Hi Di and J.  This means possible my sons and daughter might read about what I'm making them.  Just possible, highly doubtful they pay attention, but one never knows for sure.  This means I won't posting about your present either, Di.

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This may or may not be Christmas socks.  Back when I was dying yarn and selling on etsy, I made a few of these sock blanks.  Someone had asked me what they would look like knitted and I hadn't made a sample.  I still have them and this one of the dyed ones.  I've been toying with idea of selling some of my extra stuff I know I won't use on Artfire, for a while now.  I really need to get things more organized before I do that.

These are knit on size 1 dpns with a stitch count of 92, knit from the top down.  They will be plain vanilla knee highs with calf stitch decreases.  The nice thing about these sock blanks if you like to knit two at time is that it is double ply.  I don't like the whole 2 socks on circulars knitting so I'm winding the second strand into a center pull ball, so they will be a matching pair when finished.

I should somewhat of an FO to post for Friday.  It will be a technicality but FO's happen so rare here, I'll take it where I can.  Speaking of rare, I could sure use some rare cool weather.  We tied the record of last year with 101F today and we're supposed to tie it again tomorrow.  I read So. Cal has had record heat of 110+F but LA is supposed to cool down to 88F tomorrow.  The weather man says we should cool down to the low 90's sometime next week.  *weak* Yeah.  I believe it when I feel it.  I sure would like to kick about 10 or 20 degrees off the thermometer.

For WIP posts go over to Tami's blog, she is hosting this.  The list keeps growing every week.  I finally remembered to post the link back.