the blue-ish sock fits the woman! The woman is pleased! I will now perform the amazing feat of making a perfect mate for it while it is 500 miles away up the coast. This should be very interesting.

I am supposed to be writing out a newsletter to be mailed tomorrow. I am so sick of doing this. I've done it for nearly the whole time that we have been in the club, eight years I reckon. It's tiresome that no one will come forward and be an officer either. But, you love the friends. So you go ahead and be President or Secretary or Vice President, you do it anyway, and it's because you love the people in the club. These people are so very special. I'm not just saying that. I am really feeling it, too.

Well this isn't meant to be a "Dear Diary" so That's enough of that.

In our excursions around the yarn shops in Santa Cruz at the end of September we found this lovely soft and fuzzy yarn. It is so soft that it might not really make a sturdy sock but why not try, right? I've sent it off to the DD to see if it fits, and if it does I'll start on the other one right away. If it doesn't fit, it's frog, frog frog on that one and start on smaller needles on the mate.

My DD, in the pictures, who knit her first sock while we were there has completed two pair, declares them pretty easy, and is working on a third pair, for herself this time. The only problem she says she has is that they are not coming out the same length. That is easy to solve.

The other pairs were given away. One pair went to a friend for a birthday, and one pair to her sister who was begging for them right away before they were off the needles. I hope her twin sister will try knitting some socks soon, too, because, well, it's just a lot of fun to make socks.

this is a very fuzzy sock made for Laura, but my leg is not that white, is it?

What's been happening...

We went to visit our DD's in the Midlands. It was wonderful and there is a new sock knitter in the family, DD4, and and a brand new knitter as well, DD2. So, that is four family knitters, and one who is being maybe a little tempted to start knitting? I hope so. She does crochet so that's cool.

There are two shops we visited and they were both great. I was so happy to find such wonderful yarn shops! One is called The Yarn Store and is in Capitola, and one is the Golden Fleece in Santa Cruz. They are both run by sweet natured and energetic young women who really make you feel at home. We left some money behind in both places, as I bought new needles and some yarn. I've been won over by bamboo DPNs. So cool! So easy on the hands!

Jazzie got a lesson in tolerance and diversity training, too. He had to get used to having cats around him and it was a very good lesson for him. He needed some tolerance for other creatures in his tiny doggie nature. He is very sweet but he is soooo aggressive to other creatures no matter what size they are! Very baaa-aaad!

Also, on sock knitting, when I can I will post the sock I'm making for my DD1.

And this is the finished sock. DD's #4's very first sock. Isn't it great?

This is a first sock near the toe or maybe it is the toe.