So said DH as I misread a very poorly worded aside in a travel book and made us go a whole mile out of our way. We covered a neat little slice of new england last week. We started out at Storyland for two days worth of rides and nursery rhymes, followed by almost a week exploring the midcoast region of maine, primarily in the Damariscotta, Maine area. We went to a county fair and I made the following declartion to my husband:

“If you are going to judge sheep, and award blue ribbons in 15 different classes, you should not allow 100% acrylic yarn entries into your kntting competition.” DH aggreed, and when we run the world, this will be rule #101.

Finally, I promised a tale of the sock.

I am participating in the Sockapaloza 2 hosted by Alison over at the Blue Blog. I was so excited to get started, that I cast on, throwing caution to the wind. (and ignoring the fact that when I made these socks last year, in the same yarn and the same needle size, that they were too big and I needed to felt them). I was very excited, but realized they weren’t really the colors my secret pal requested. So I put them aside and will pick them back up later this fall, finish them, make a make and then felt them. They will look great on me.

Then I ordered some Twinkletoes sock yarn from ebay, cast on for the Retro Rib socks from Interweave, but I just couldn’t get into the pattern. Further color reflection revealed they were too dark for my pall. Back to the sock yarn drawer.

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Finally, I realized that a beautiful hand painted Lorna’s Laces yarn doesn’t need lots of embellishments or a fancy pattern. I cast on for a basic sock with picot edges, and finally found my groove. I did a star toe, rather than a tapered toe, because I find they wear better for bigger feet, which both my pal and I have. I hope she likes them. I’ll be done by the end of tonight, hopefully and will use up the leftover yarn for a super secret surprise that may or may not be a lavender eye pillow.

The mac transfer is going … ok… I never knew how addicted I was to my keyboard and my right mouse button. I’m designing a new blog using Dreamweaver, PHP and MySQL, look for a test blog later this week.