there has been some bad knitting juju in these parts but I am working to remedy the problem immediately…. I started a new sock from Knitting Vintage socks (childs first sock ) in some Louet Gems I think I am gonna use this pattern for my sockapalooooza pal but this one is just a practice one. I picked up Interweave crochet after seeing granny bags popping up all over. I like that its cute and a lil kitchy and I think it’ll be a cute summery bag so I have to get some yarn for that (yeah I know that took a lot of persuasion). I think I have blathered on enough for tonight so… Be back soon (hopefully with some pics and the reason the knitting mojo may have been lost )

My day in bullet points (because thought in an orderly fashion is not coming)
* I wore sandals (for the first time this season) I need a pedicure. Painted toes to me always look like they are smiling.
* I work with these 3 guys lets call them Larry Mo and Curly. Mo and I do not get along so his brothers in stooginess have taken to screwing with me. Case in point I have a picture of my god daughter on my desk they took it and tried to taunt me with it. I mean seriously how old are you… I may need to seek revenge not sure though how… I mean seriously mess with the girl who plays with sharp pointy objects?
* I picked up my long abandoned rectangle shawl to start knitting only to see that there was a humongo counting error so to the frog pond it went. It was actually a zen moment though and got my aggression out which was a good thing. The Lorna’s yarn from Purl rocks… this is some mini stripey fun. Plans for tomm. include restart on the shawl and then more sock time.
hopefully will come up with a good plan

The Harlot make me wanna sing Mary Poppins?? Knitters in large numbers … what a sight to see. I took my bus (with the icky driver) to Port Authority got Farblungit ( i cant translate from Yiddish sorry) took me to long but I finally arrived at my destination. (actually Kim found me and brought me where I needed to go) Once upon a Tart was quite the pleasant eatery with the coolest duckie thing in the window oh and btw soup involving peas,spinach, and mint is awesome!! Then I hit Purl…(thanks Ina for providing the contrast, my photography skills leave much to be desired) omg I think I wanna move in there. Wow for a tiny store they have a heck of a lot. The wall of koigu made me wanna drool yet I bought none. I did buy some new exclusive to purl Lorna’s sock yarn… Then we made our way to FIT. Where I took the same photo as countless others I am sure… SPM spoke for about an hour and a half and then took questions (which were actually comments) What kind of blew my mind was all the people knitting like a giant SnB and not just knitting, there was a common goal (afghan squares). Stephanie touched on the kindness of knitters which was so evident in all the money collected to Doctors without Borders. Got to meet a fellow Jersey girl, waving to Jessica. All in all had a fabulous day which has been described much better by others… Suffice to say I can’t wait for the next knitter meet up… Photos from the day below

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Thanks for the GREAT day ladies…

The sock and I had quite the “wild” weekend. We went to a bachelorette slumber party at the Sheraton. Since a picture is worth a thousand words I’ll leave you with 2 in lieu of a post.

Working on a toe up and making some progress on the monkey sock. I am playing with some Lorna’s Laces for the first time… the colors are soooo pretty. Be back soon .
-D