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So since I finished the slip stitch socks I had to cast on for some more. Sure Thermal is just one big sock but  it’s always useful to have more than one wip.  So I started some plain Stockinette socks in this colorway of trekking. I figure that the color changes will be enough to [...]

J is away at school, which has been unfun. I’ve been consoling myself by reading a lot. We’re in the middle of a horrible heat wave so the idea of going out during the day makes me just go euuuwww. So reading and knitting it is, not that that is such a hardship of course.  [...]

Pattern: My usual sock with the slip stitch rib from MSKS
Yarn: Misty Mountain Farm, Colorway- Apple Rose
Needles: Kp size 1’s
Size: Me Me Me
Pattern Notes: Because of the ribbing they look far more narrow then they are. The slip stitch pattern did do an excellent job of breaking things up so they didn’t pool. I did [...]

So in a fit of cosmic irony I found out far too late that I got gauge on the zip cardi. This is a knitradgedy because uhh well I was under the impression that I hadn’t gotten gauge so I had upsized accordingly. Now I have a tent sized most of a cardigan. In a [...]

So what has become the usual stress still applies. However it is looking more hopeful, which means of course I need to return to house hunting in stl. I have found the perfect house, however it is in eureka which is a bit far west and its a bit out of our price range. However [...]