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here’s a great gift idea for all your single friends!

First, the knitting. In order to check the length of my poncho, I needed to take if off my circular needles. Being a somewhat clever girl, I simply took an enormous length of scrap yarn and threaded it through the stitches. It has taken an inordinate amount of time to get the stitches back on the needles. I thought it would be more efficient to simply knit them back onto the circs. And I still could be right about that, but it took forever! How I suffer for my art …..

Do you guys know about this? It’s a show about knitting. I caught it for the first time today and I must say, I found it boring. Lily Chin was on and demonstrated various stitch techniques – that part was good and informative. The rest was rather dry.

What I like best about my knitting groups is all the laughter – seeing all their projects, hearing about their kids & husbands – how they love them but they’re driving them crazy, what’s been happening in their lives – all the things women talk about when they get together, the ebb and flow of it. Camraderie. This show didn’t have it.

That being said, here is some non-knitting content:

Daughter #1 (the one who was kicked by a horse about a week ago) has a huge bruise on her thigh, which is all kinds of purple ugliness. She has been able to ride and will indeed be competing this weekend at the Hampton Classic. That’s good – my kid got hurt, and now she’s on the mend.

If you read between the lines of my story you will see the important questions of course are,

‘What hat shall I wear’? and ‘What knitting project shall I take along?’ – in that order!

First, the knitting. In order to check the length of my poncho, I needed to take if off my circular needles. Being a somewhat clever girl, I simply took an enormous length of scrap yarn and threaded it through the stitches. It has taken an inordinate amount of time to get the stitches back on the needles. I thought it would be more efficient to simply knit them back onto the circs. And I still could be right about that, but it took forever! How I suffer for my art …..

Do you guys know about this? It’s a show about knitting. I caught it for the first time today and I must say, I found it boring. Lily Chin was on and demonstrated various stitch techniques – that part was good and informative. The rest was rather dry.

What I like best about my knitting groups is all the laughter – seeing all their projects, hearing about their kids & husbands – how they love them but they’re driving them crazy, what’s been happening in their lives – all the things women talk about when they get together, the ebb and flow of it. Camraderie. This show didn’t have it.

That being said, here is some non-knitting content:

Daughter #1 (the one who was kicked by a horse about a week ago) has a huge bruise on her thigh, which is all kinds of purple ugliness. She has been able to ride and will indeed be competing this weekend at the Hampton Classic. That’s good – my kid got hurt, and now she’s on the mend.

If you read between the lines of my story you will see the important questions of course are,

‘What hat shall I wear’? and ‘What knitting project shall I take along?’ – in that order!