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So I finally got the neckband seamed on the Baby Norgi:


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Knitting is a very user-friendly hobby in that you can mess it up pretty horrendously and yet still be able to rip it out and do it over right. Not too many pursuits of which that can be said! How often have you wished for a "Delete" key that would work on something you just said out loud, or a "Restore" button to let you go back to an earlier ( Read more... )

Today I knit the neckband on Baby Norgi:


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And now for KNITTING posts! Can you tell I'm on vacation now?

I just spent a little over an hour trying to finish up my Baby Norgi sweater:

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Indiana is still quite wet this week, but Jasonville isn't. We've had yet MORE storms even though many areas are still flooded from last weekend's downpours. Jasonville's water is still off while they work on repairing the water main broken last weekend. Estimates of when they will have water again vary from a few days to up to TEN DAYS WITHOUT ( Read more... )

Okay, so it is June 7 and already we have surpassed the average rainfall for the month of June. I'm ready for a break from all the storms. So is our whole area...I drove home to Jville last night for the weekend and parts of my drive, while the road was dry, there was standing water in the fields to either side. Last night it stormed again - ( Read more... )

I would just like to say that
I am done with grading for the year!

( Which of course means now I have time to ramble on the journal. )

Apparently yesterday was my Ravel-versary. I was filling out a survey about Ravelry that asked how long you had been on Ravelry, and when I went to my Rav profile to check, it says member since May 21, 2007! I'm amazed it's been that long. And it's still in Beta! But the waiting list is down to just a few hundred people so that generally if you ( Read more... )