Surprise surprise, I have no new purchases to show today. I might be off to Purl later this week, but that will be to pick up something for my Better Pal . Can’t promise that will be the only yarn to leave with me though. Also unexpected, I haven’t cast on anything new since Saturday! I haven’t finished anything though, but at least I haven’t added to the WIP pile.
I knitted a bit on the STS during my commute today, and the Claudia Handpaint sock for Mom other times. I’m now halfway through the foot, though this picture is as of the end of last night. I really love the colors and how they are spiraling around the sock. Mom confessed that she liked these far more than the original yarn. Good. So do I. I’m really looking forward to using the skeins I bought for myself.
Speaking of mom and socks, she’s been knitting away. Yay! Getting her back to knitting was my favorite part of the whole weekend. She went to her weekly MahJong game last night and they had 2 extra folk. She treated the idle time like any good knitter, working away on her socks! I love how she pulled out her sock to show me her progress. Yay mom.
Last night was 24 night. While last week was I cast on that Claudia Handpaint sock during the episode, I’ve been getting the urge to spin as I see others spinning on their blogs. I mentioned to Cassie yesterday in an email exchange that one reason I haven’t been spinning is that on most of my wheels, I’ve got bobbins worth of plying to do and just couldn’t face the tedium of it. But then I realized that plying with the woolee winder would be akin to knitting socks during 24. I pulled out the two bobbins of BL/Wensleydale singles and my Lendrum Upright. I luckily found an empty woolee winder bobbin, originally purchase for the Womack Electric and confirmed that they do indeed fit the Lendrum. Over the course of the hour of 24, I filled the bobbin and ran out of singles. The plied yarn is aging now waiting for me to skein it off. Another of my favorite tasks. 
I really like the look and feel of the yarn. I hope at some point to use it to knit a gansey. As for 24 last night, excellent episode. Glad to see Pres. Logan isn’t a total idiot, but I do really hope that the deal he and Jack made at the end for Jack to disappear again gets forgotten. Is anyone else having problems with a Hobbit running things at CTU? Sure he cleaned up nice, but he’s a hobbit!
I know I’m late posting today. I got a pretty big project at work this morning, but had to spend almost 2.5 hours futzing with my computer to get .Net 2005 to play nicely with IIS and allow me to debug the code. Okay, how many of you did I lose with that sentence? Anyway, I’m tired, have a few things to do before I plunk on the couch and ignore the President’s State of the Union speach. I wonder what goodies are waiting for me on the beloved ReplayTV unit.
Craft on!
