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I did finish my fourth pair of socks while on vacation. They are “Saucy”. They will be sent off to my Dad’s wife, since she has rather small feet and they turned out smallish. Next time I will not switch to smaller needles, and I will make them shorter.

Now, both kids are back at school, Dan returned safely from his “coming of age” solo car trip to visit Karl and Andrea and Murphy in Chicago. The only hitch was a flat tire in the middle of nowhere in West Virginia on the way home..no cell phone service, so it was collect pay phone [...]

We got back yesterday. We had a great trip. Katie moved into the dorm without incident unlike last year. She marching her butt off in band camp. Exhausted but happy to be back at school. Dad was good. He kind of amazing for 85. I hope I am like that when I get to be [...]

Tomorrow, we bring Katie to school. She starts early because of being in marching band. After we get her settled, we’ll head north to see my brother in NH and my Dad in Boston for his 85 birthday. I’ll be bringing all my sock projects with me. Hopefully I’ll get my Hogwarts socks done and [...]

These two skeins used to be black and yellow. I bought them as candidates for my Hufflepuff Hogwarts Sock. I just did not like them, decided to go with a 2 color sock, not variegated, so I over-dyed each of these differently. What’s the verdict? My son likes the dark one. I hope all [...]

I dyed up the rest of my 4 hanks of Knit Picks Bare today with food coloring dyes. I am showing improvement I think. This one was meant to be yellow and black ala Hufflepuff colors, but it went seriously awry, so after I had finished the others, I over-dyed it with what I had [...]