Kat had a minor freak out Monday morning because the socks I bought her over the weekend were too big.¬† Seems she has my feet.¬† Tiny.¬† Narrow.¬† Wigged out because the foot was too long and put the heel shaping up the back of her foot.¬† If I got it in place, wrinkles formed on the foot.¬† Showing her that commercial socks fit me the same way didn’t help.¬† Heck, the only way to get socks to really fit my feet is to knit them.¬† So…
What else would a knitting mother do?  Head to the sock yarn basket.  I had this skein of Koigu KPPPM in various pinks.  I traced her foot on a sheet of paper, making sure to put marks where the ankle bones are, and got knitting.  I took that photo on the way to work yesterday.  I turned the heel this morning and started the cuff on the way home.
Back to the instructions from my last posting.¬† All those who guessed IKEA guessed correctly!¬† Woot.¬† Yup.¬† It was time for the annual (or twice annual) trip to IKEA for a new chair for my bedroom.¬† I have a drop leaf table along one wall where my iMac lives.¬† When I work from home I sit there.¬† I’ve rotated through a couple of seats there, my Kromski spinning stool first, followed by a barstool I bought at Target.¬† Now, I have a chair with a back!
Sorry, tis the standard crappy lighting in my bedroom.  The yellow walls combining with the high hats and all the wood combine for this lovely coloring.  Sigh.
Gotta love this little girl.¬† She pulled out her knitting bag which is tucked next to mine and announced she was going to knit tonight.¬† By.¬† Herself.¬† “I know how!”
After popping on the Ott light, she settled into my knitting chair and tried knitting.
She’s not quite there yet, but did far better than she’s ever done.¬† She did wind up in my lap with my helping with the steps and needle control.¬† A regular repeat and I think she’ll be soloing in no time.¬† We decided the she’s making a doll blanket 
Oh and some might notice the addition of the “Finished Items” in the sidebar.¬† The one thing I liked about Typepad was the photo albums there and how I used them to have a thumbnail view of all the projects I finished over the course of a year.¬† I didn’t want to use Flickr.¬† While it is nice, sometimes it goes down, sometimes there’s a delay as the files stream in from another network.. blah blah.¬† Whatever.¬† I wanted something here.¬† I couldn’t find a plugin for WordPress.¬† So what does this geek do?¬† Write it herself.¬† I might not be a PHP/mySql wiz, but they’re not that much different from ASP/T-SQL, just a different dialect.¬† I added database tables, wrote the admin pages to add/edit the information and the album and project page.¬† Now it is just a matter of downloading all the photos from my Typepad album, move them here and paste in the text.¬† Cool.¬† I finished entering the stuff from 2004 and am on my way through 2005.¬† Who knew I was so prolific then?!¬† I’d love to know what you all think of it.
I’m off to watch the Sox and do a little knitting.
Craft on!
