I checked the wall this morning and did not see any ants. Yay! It's going to be frosty over the next couple of days, though, so Erik brought our worm box inside and I'm wondering if some ants, or worse, are going to come out of that. It will go right back out when there stops being a frost warning ( Read more... )

Cookie invited a bunch of the BobaKnitters over today for Fizz Fest: a bath bomb making party. I took the opportunity to bring the Costco sized bottle of tequila that I bought when I went with a group of the knitters to Tahoe in May. They didn't drink as much of it as I had hoped and I keep trying to use it up and failing. I also brought my blender ( Read more... )

This morning, Cookie and I did this:


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Today was a long one. It started with our fourth day of Arts Focus. The kids came in and immediately started embroidering, which I thought was awesome. They were all really enthusiastic about it. Later they did fabric collage and some of them made more tassel and pompom animals and dolls, of their own choice. Awesome. This group of kids is really ( Read more... )

I wasn't sure what size needles I used to cast on for the wedge sock, but they "seemed" right ( Read more... )

My sock is all fixed now.


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I almost forgot to make my post today ( Read more... )

I guess I lied in my previous post. I'm still talking about Cookie because I was gripped with the urge to knit her Wedge socks from the new book. I decided to knit them out of my Blue Moon FIber Arts mill-dyed Sock Candy. I was very excited to see that they were making mill-dyed Sock Candy since I had some bad fading experiences with the hand-dyed ( Read more... )