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I have declared this my Sockpocalypse Summer. In part 6, I played a very daring game of yarn chicken so that my fellow knitting friend Leslie could have some amazing socks, and I had to admit defeat.  But dang if those socks aren’t pretty.

Pattern:  Pomatomus by Cookie A.

Yarn:  Knit Picks Hawthorne in Irvington

When New Orleans was freezing over in January, I made my friend Sabrina the pinkest socks ever.

Pattern is Lindsay by Cookie A., Yarn is Knit Picks Hawthorne in Rose City

Lowering My Standards or Giving Myself A Break

I’ll take the latter, thank you very much. 🙂 When I was a worker bee, I published a post three times a week on average, usually Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Since retirement, I MIGHT get a blog post in once a week or so, all the while making promises to myself that “next week I’m getting back to three times a week”. Now, if you are a regular reader, you know that three posts a week has yet to…

If You Find…

If you guys are artists/crafters and I know most of you are, a lot of the time your FOs tend to pile up faster than you can gift/donate/sell them. I mean,you can only foist gift so many things to friends and family before the eyerolls and less than enthusiastic thank yous begin. 🙄😑 With this in mind, I googled what to do with art overflow and found a great Facebook group called Art Abandonment.…

WIPs As Far As The Eye Can See

ON MY NEEDLES

I’m going to dive right in……..

 New Gray Day Sweater

Knitpicks Wool of the Andes

Sprinkle Heather

  Five Roses Shawl

Knitologie by Knitcrate Sparkling Sock in Turquoise (speckled)

Emma’s Yarn in Turquoise

  Twisted Flower

Yarn Bee

Rainbow Wrapsody

  Kew Socks

URU.YARN  by Knitcrate Sugared Sock

Hidden Pool

Dissent Cowl

Faithful Beauty by The Verdant Gryphon

Arco Iris by…

Whatcha Workin’ On? Wednesday 4-19-17 or What Do I Do All Day??

Hi guys and welcome to this week’s post, Whatcha Workin’ On? Wednesday 4-19-17 or What Do I Do All Day??  I hope you’ll like it! ON MY NEEDLES Pomatomous Socks Cookie A. Woo Hoo!  Heel Flap! Read more about these here and here. PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE I found this book, The Art of Whimsical Lettering, a couple of years ago with the full intention of practicing and bring my own lettering up to…