So, I’ve decided to try my hand at making a basic v-neck st st pullover following the directions in Barbara Walker’s Knitting from the Top. All my basic store bought sweaters, which kept me suitably warm for quite some time, all gave up the ghost. Mostly they were done in by huge gaping holes in the elbows. There was nothing there to attempt fixing — the elbows were simply gone, and I’m not a leather elbow kind of gal.
In other knitting relatedness, I don’t think I’m going to re-up for the Blue Moon Fiber Arts Rockin’Sock Club. They raised the price by a good $40, and I wasn’t sufficiently wowed this year to pay more for next year.
Meanwhile, I’m trying not to lose what’s left of my sanity to the last week and a half of 2006.
We shared a table with one of the husband’s coworkers and her husband. Apparently, after talking to me for 3 hours, the husband’s coworker thought I was from somewhere other than America. The next day at work she asked him where I was from, and expressed doubt and surprise to learn that I grew up in America. (Of course, I’ve got enough of a Canadian accent that I’ve been asked what part of Canada I was from by Canadians.)
