The Neverending [Sock] Story

Sometime in April

Bought super-cool sock yarn from Wolseley Wardrobe. Loved it, hugged it, called it my own.

04/25/08

Cast on first Baudelaire Sock. It's so pretty - I love Cookie A. - what a genius. Pattern is super fun - not big on the figure 8 cast on. Not as fun. Cruising along! Happy Day!

04/30/08

Cable on leg is not happening. I keep making mistakes and frogging back to heel. Mental Note: probably not the best sock to bring to the SnB. Talking + Not Paying Attention + Chart = Tink.

05/14/08

Crazy busy May! Not enough time to knit! Must. Finish. Sock.

05/25/08

1 Sock finished! Hooray for pretty sock.

05/28/08

Cast on Sock no. 2. Get angry over figure 8 cast on. Cast on and start 4 times before happy with tension...

06/04/08

Still knitting boring second sock. Argh. Desperate to start something else. Buying scads of new yarn to compensate for fact of wanting to start new project. Stop self from starting anything else until finished sock.

06/11/08

Met with "Are you still on that same sock?" at SnB. Cry a little inside. Scream. Feel a bit better...

06/18/08

Initiate a round of "The Sock that Never Ends" at SnB. Wolly Bullies join in in chorus and sympathize for sock woe.

06/25/08

Embarrased to be bringing "same old sock" to SnB tonight. Had to slap down new projects that tried to sneak into my bag this morning.

DaMN yOu FrEAkiN SOcK!

World Wide Knit in Public (WWKIP) Day

Saturday was World Wide Knit in Public (WWKIP) Day and the Wooly Bullies were out shaking their fibers again…

Nicole planned a fabulous event for us where we gathered at the University of Manitoba. I brought my cousin Kathryn whom we taught how to knit and was well on her way to a dish cloth by the time we left.


I got some grey sock yarn in the yarn swap and won five skeins of a very strange colored alpaca wool in the prize draw…

Everyone brought food for the potluck lunch and my pails of margueritas were a big hit! It was damn good food too!

One of my favorite things was those of us who wore our matching “Yarn is a four-letter word” shirts…


So much fun! It's too bad the impending threat of rain kept us inside for the day. Oh well, maybe we will have sun next year...

My Sheeples Peoples

Hello Interweb!

Today is my first post ever on the blog-iverse. I have determined that in order to be able to participate in the coveted "yarn-swap" you must have a blog to which you make regular posts.

What better of a time to start my blog than the week after our Sheeples field trip!


A group of us knitterly people (too bad I have my hand over my face to try to keep from eating my hair) took a trek out to Inwood, MB to a place called Sheeples to learn how to spin and to play with baby sheep! Here I am with a day-old lamb...


Thank goodness Nicole is such a planning genius! She organized the whole trip - Thank you!

I got the chance to try my hand at spinning. I don't think I am quite dedicated enough to invest it that hobby yet; although, it does seem like it could be gratifying...


A bunch of my other fellow Wooly Bullies Stitch n' Bitchers were there including other bloggers like Allison, Melanie and Holly. We had a blast!

Who doesn't love baby sheep?