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A pictures worth.....

This is a big pile of leftover yarn from all sorts of projects. Looks like technicolor cat barf to me : )

What I really want to blog about are my husband's finished Guiness socks. He decided that having a seperate toe would be annoying, so they are just regular socks. He really likes them, which makes me feel bad about taking soo long to make them.

Also, Starsky is just about done. I seamed it, but while I was working, I became suspicious that the sleeves were going to be too long. That would be an understatment. I cut them (!) and now have the live stitches ready to go. I just need to knit 5 inches of cuff and that shouldn't take long. Looks like it's going to fit : ) The belt is more than halfway done.

There won't be any pics for a while as the camera is on its way to Germany in the luggage bag of My Man's motocicletta.

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amanda said…
Can't wait to see Starsky!!
9:41 AM
nanny said…
Me too! Loving the projects and looking forward to Starksy as well. Looking forward to sharing the Ohio stash as soon as the bumbles figure out how to put the pictures in our soon to be blog. The Irish scarf is coming along. It is sort of a race that'll stop when St. Patty's Day approaches. That'll be the long or short of it. Can't stop knitting. Fingers are stiff and eyes are burning, but needles are flying. Ms. C and her dishclothes at lunch and me and my scarves. We could be knitting the history of the world. K2, P2, K2, P2
6:53 PM
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