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More Fiber/ Making Socks

I recently purchased more fiber. Yeah. I know. I have enough already to keep me busy spinning for months. But I couldn’t help it. I bought the same stuff as before (BFL from Sakina Needles in Woodstock), so I could spin it up and have more yarn available for the campfire socks. That way I can make socks that come up higher than just my ankles. I’m plugging away at the socks and although I don’t have photos yet, I’m make decent progress on the foot. So far they look okay although I think they will be a bit loose. I probably should have gone down to a size 3 needle, instead of going up to a size 5. I will post a photo as soon as I can.

I’m having computer issues. My battery is bad and I’m taking my laptop to the Apple store this weekend, in hopes of getting a replacement.

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Upgraded

I’ve just upgraded my installation of Wordpress from 2.2.1 to 2.5.1. Wow! What a difference. I think it’s going to take a bit of getting used to the new admin interface. I was previously using the Tiger Admin plugin to make it look a bit cleaner. I like the new interface though so far. Seems a bit cleaner than before and I like that it has a bit more color to it. :)

I’ll have to play around, because I can already see that I’ll use the tags quite a bit, instead of having to use a bunch of categories that don’t really get but a few posts.

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How Sad

I have no comments on this blog. Primarily because when I converted my posts from Textpattern, I couldn’t figure out how to convert the comments, so I lost them all. Since, I’ve not had anyone post comments. So I made a test post to make sure it’s working. Yep. :(

My first comment received was spam! How sad is that. I guess my blog is pretty lame that no one comments. LOL! Oh well.

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Finally Back Online

Sheesh. It’s been a while. October has officially become a busy month. With Amelia’s first birthday and trips to FL to have cake and presents with the grandparents and 2 weeks worth of sickness in our house and now preparing for Halloween, it’s been so busy. 2 weeks ago, Amelia came down with a cold or something and spiked fevers up to 103. An ear infection that had her screaming 3 nights straight from medication. Me developing the flu, I guess and being bed-ridden for 3-4 days. Then to find out it’s a massive sinus infection. So now I’m doped up on meds as well. Amelia had her one-year checkup and I baked cupcakes for her class at daycare. Plus we’re trying to figure out what to do for Halloween. It’s been a few busy weeks since I last posted.

And sadly enough, because of all the stuff going on, I’ve missed 2 SNB nights and have hardly worked on anything knitting/crochet related. It’s still warm here, so now that I’m working on the edge of my sister’s afghan the whole thing has to sit in my lap. Not fun to have a thick warm blanket on your lap when it’s sweltering hot. Plus I’ve messed up somehow and my ripple isn’t going the way it should. I need to take some time to recheck stitch count and pattern repeats to see where I went wrong and fix it. Then there’s a section hanging off the end of the border that I have no idea how it fits into the whole thing. It will be interesting to see where it goes, but I’m trying to take it one row at a time. With this yarn it’s so hard to see the stitches, much less in a ripple. ugh! I will be so glad to be done with this project so I can finally be done with Lion Brand Homespun for good.

As you can see, I finally also got my blog working again. So many errors and attempted fixes and it was all due to one plugin causing me so much grief. So I disabled that plugin and all is well.

So start commenting! I have none!

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Waves

There haven’t been many posts from me in a while. I’ve been crocheting even though there isn’t really anything new to report. I’ve pieced together the rectangles for my sister’s afghan and I’ve started on the wavy border. It looks really neat so far, but in the past week, we’ve all fallen ill. Guess the flu is going around and we all caught it. I’m still feeling sort of crappy, so I haven’t really worked on anything this week.

We’re going to FL this weekend for Amelia’s 1st birthday party, so I’ll be too busy anyway. Hopefully when I get back, I’ll be feeling more myself and things will get back to normal. Then I can really get working on the border and have something to show. Till then, you’ll just have to wait.

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