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TagsAnastasia Socks Errata
Many thanks to Jeanie for pointing out an omission from the Anastasia Socks pattern.
When working the pattern from the chart, odd-numbered rows are knit.
purple
I’m going to just go ahead and post my Project Spectrum post for July now, even though the month is only half over. Because there’s no way I’m going to discover any purple or even knit with it. It’s not that I dislike purple, don’t get me wrong. It’s a perfectly nice color. But I’ve discovered that it’s practically nonexistent in my life.
if I were to cast off my lace right now . . .
I’d, uh, well, actually, um, I’d have a pair of socks. Anastasia Socks, that is.
what to do with leftover sock yarn (another free pattern)
My new haircut, which is actually a month old, is still taking getting used to. Honestly, I hate it. Detest it. I can’t keep it out of my face, and it never sits quite right. I get lots of compliments, but I think mostly people are inspired to say “ohmigod, you chopped off all your hair!” and then they have to say something nice. I guess I don’t really hate the way it looks, I mostly hate living with it. I’m just twiddling my thumbs until it grows out enough to start cutting to a consistent length, and hopefully someday I’ll have a normal haircut again. But in the meantime I’m making prodigious use of bobby pins to hold it back.
It’s nice to have a little variety, though, so this weekend over the course of a few short hours, I made up this little headband.
carb loading
I like to think of food as having a place on this knitting blog, if only because it and knitting are the two passions in my life that use my hands. This weekend was a food-focused one.
My dear friend came in for a long weekend visit on Friday—we immediately went to dim sum for lunch. Saturday was devoted to this: