Friday, 5/16/2008

Mending

In The Garden | Knitting | Miscellaneous Musing by Judy @ 8:33 am PDT

The title of this post reminds me that I still have a pair of socks that needs darning: the Rooster Feather Socks. I managed to blow out the heel on one of them. But I think I have some of that yarn left somewhere, so they won’t end up like the poor Snake River Socks with non-matching patches on the bottoms.

The socks I am working on now - toe-up Monkeys in the Knitters Without Borders colorway - have heels reinforced on the bottom. I can be taught, although I need to be whacked with a 2×4 for it to take it sometimes takes multiple repetitions.

I’ve been sick most of this week, but mending there as well now. Enforced inactivity has afforded some knitting time but, alas, no bloggage or photography or inventions. The garden is coming alive, though, and we’ve actually had a day of hot weather. We are promised another day or two of sun before the rot sets in again. I will snap some knitting and garden shots. My wisteria is really lovely this spring.

For today, I can only offer you this link, shamelessly stolen from Sam Klein at The ZehnKatzen Times: The 50 Worst Album Covers, as determined by Newsday. Some of these are so incredibly bad that they really defy description and it’s hard to believe they were ever published. (Some may be are offensive. You have been warned.) You can vote for your fav. I got a good chuckle out of the cover showing the sneering sleazeoid who looks like he’s about to deliver some particularly bad pick-up line. The title: Can I Borrow A Feeling.



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Stuff I Gotta Do

Andes Mint socks

30%

feet

Knitters Without Borders Socks

100%

Done!

Peacock Feather Shawl

0%

swatched

Honeybee Stole

5%

in progress

Irtfa'a Faroese Shawl

0%

In the queue

Lenore

20%

On Hold
temporarily abandoned

Fatigues henley sweater

10%

On Hold
temporarily abandoned

Jade Sapphire Scarf

15%

On Hold
no reason - just on hold

#1 Son's Blanket

1%

On Hold
(but still feeling slightly guilty)

Cotton Bag

0%

In the queue
Swatched, finished object is in my head