Enabler Alert

OK. First, this has nothing to do with yarn or fabric.

I highly recommend that you either read this or, even better, listen to this. It’s OK. I’ll wait.

GO!

OK. Welcome back. ☺ Pretty awesome, huh? I thought so when I heard it on NPR last night. There’s a reason Wait Wait won a Peabody!

I forgot to take pictures of my sock-in progress. Picture the same thing as last week, just on the second sock and three pattern repeats farther up. I’m gonna turn the heel tonight after I post to ye olde bloggity blog.

And then I’ll fly up the leg of the sock (I didn’t make the first sock very high. Mostly because I wanted it to be finished) and be done.

Next pair of socks will be the final architecture from New Pathways, and I’ll use the February shipment from my Zen Yarn Garden Harmony Semi-Solid sock yarn club. That I apparently forgot to photograph. If the weather is decent, I’ll do that tomorrow but meanwhile, here's the Flickr photo from the Harmony blog.

Meanwhile, I just want to tell everyone how freakin’ great this sock club has been. As a reminder, here’s my January shipment


And here’s my March shipment. Roxanne had a supplier problem and this is a brand new base yarn. Tencelicious Yarn, 50% Superwash Merino, 50% Tencel. 2-ply fingering weight. 375 yards/4 oz. Colorway is called "Sun Kiss."


This has been a fantastic sock yarn club. Sign-ups are open now (until Sunday) for three-month and six-month memberships in the club. Go! You will like!

Last night was Hurricane Knitters at the Waterworks B&N. I do believe that a good time was had by all, including Yvonne, who had some automotive nightmares en route. I still really enjoy that group of humans. It’s a good mix of people.

OK. That’s about all I have for tonight. Sorry I haven’t been much fun. I did swing down to Bloomin' Yarns tonight. The sale is already going on, and it’s pretty good. Michelle even got some new bags in to the store today. One is already sitting on the stairs waiting to come home with me … last night I re-discovered some Christmas present gift cards from BY that really want to be spent. I’ll bring my mini-haul home on Saturday. Remember, birthday cake, Carol Martin from Farmhouse Yarns and ME if you stop by the store on Sunday!

Wait! Wait!

Don’t Tell Me …


I had tickets for something tonight (good seats! Off to the side so we were a little obstructed by speakers, but third row!)


What was it? Hmmm …

Yep. Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, my very very very favorite NPR show, was in Pittsburgh tonight. I went to see the show with my mom and aunt Suz. My face hurts from laughing for two solid hours.


Yep. We had Mo (in a very lime green blazer), Roxanne (in a SERIOUS dress) and Tom (who left a light on ... somewhere). Our Governor was there in person to play “Not My Job” and was pretty decent! A good time was had by all.

I forgot to take a picture of it, but I had all three panelists and both hosts (Peter and Carl) sign my program. I did get goaded (by Aunt Suz) into getting my picture taken instead of letting RT have all the fun.


Yep. It’s me with the Rock Star of NPR, Mr. Carl Kassel! All of the panelists were super nice and hung around to sign autographs and talk with the people. It was much fun!

I have YPF photos sitting around just waiting to see the light of day. I’ll try to get my sorry self motivated tomorrow.