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tonight I became ADD

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Perhaps it’s a side effect of the allergy medication I took this afternoon, after hanging out at a cat house last night sent me into a sinus frenzy all day. I slept for 4 hours this afternoon! So tonight I was trying to catch up on my planning for this next pair of socks.

Here’s the deal: I want to make a leaf. Just a single leaf, on an angle. This delightfully soft sock yarn, from Hill Country Yarns, is called “Indian Summer” but has me thinking of leaf-peeping and falling leaves. I’ve been in the mood for pumpkin pie for days now. I decided the “easiest” way to figure out how to make one nice leaf would be to find a pattern and steal a single leaf from it. But of course, I needed to chart the whole pattern in order to pick out the single leaf and still keep all the decreases and yos even. So I did that. For a few different leaf patterns. Then I decided I needed a straightforward swatch before I tried experimenting with leaves.

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adding to the stash

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I actually have a fairly small stash of yarn, though if you were to ask my boyfriend he’d have something different to say. I haven’t forced him to sit and look at bloggers’ photos of their stashes as a comparison, but trust me: I don’t have a ton of yarn that was purchased with no project in mind. For the most part, I decide on a project and buy the yarn. So I have lots of leftover bits, but never enough to make an entire something.

Until a week and a half ago, when I was inspired to buy some sock yarn “just because.” Just because it was so reasonably priced. Just because the colors were so pretty. Just because I could.