HT!
A very Happy Thanksgiving from me and the iSocks (with an assist from one of Kylie's squeaker toys)! Wishing you all safe travels, good eats, and plentiful drink!
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In the Inbetween
I have a couple more non-Thing-A-Month projects to share: More socks in self-striping yarn: iSocks (for cell phones and smaller smartphones) made with leftover sock yarns; by special request for OogyMom, who wanted some for a fundraiser: (These are fun like booties in that they're fast and they use up leftovers; I've made several already and will get them all together before sending them off). I'm hoping to cast on the November Northern Isle mittens today, seeing that it is already the second week of November!!
Thing A Month - October and November!
Dear Neuro, The time sure is flying, as are the leaves today with all this wind! I originally had grand ideas about our theme for October - Exotic Fiber. I was going to obtain some quiviut or yak fiber and then spin it into a yarn for subsequent knitting into something fabulous - which is way cheaper than purchasing the already-made yarn. Of course, the best laid plans... Well into October I realized this would never occur, and that with the holidays just around the corner I'd better come up with an alternate plan quickly! Which is when I suddenly remembered - MIL Oogy had given me a very strange spinning fiber blend a few years ago, and I had already spun it but had lost the nerve about knitting it into something. The fiber blend is merino and blue fox. Now, I can't find this fiber blend anywhere, so I've got to believe that MIL (who, you will recall, is also a famous weaver) must have acquired it from one of her famous fiber friends at one of their...