I love knitting socks and have knit dozens of them.
When I wash them, I try to keep them separate from the rest of the clothes so I put them in mesh wash bags. I bought two of the bags (I make my own now) and could never find them when needed.
Magnetic hook to the rescue.
I now keep the bags on the front of my washing machine so I can always find them when I wash my socks.
I air dry my handknitted socks so the bag makes to so easy to find them mixed in with the other clothes when transferring to the dryer.
Four generations of my family got married on the same day. My maternal grandparents in 1921, my parents in 1950, Mr. Aitch and I in 1974, and our daughter and husband in 2007.
I had these photos on the tables as decoration as well as 20 x 30 inch posters on the walls.
From top left clockwise: my grandparents (on the right) with the maid of honor and best man, my parents, our daughter and son-in-law, and me and Mr. Aitch.
Unfortunately I didn’t ask anyone to take photos during the event so all you get are the favors.
I’ve been making these Hershey Nuggets covers for various events for about 20 years. I just use a sheet of address labels (1″ x 2 5/8″), “create” the message, and print them out on my home printer. The labels fit perfectly over the wrappers.
I took a cookie decorating course at our local community college in March and learned how to decorate cookies and cakes using Royal icing. For our anniversary favors I made about four dozen cookies in various shapes and iced the cookies. Some are two-toned with white and pink but most are plain white.
I bought a cookie stencil and gold spray icing to make the cookies shine then piped little dots of icing around the edges.
We attached round labels to cellophane bags. After the icing dried, we inserted a cookie in each bag and tied it shut with white curling ribbon.
I decided to get two cakes, one sheet cake and the other cupcakes in the shape of a champagne flute. The sheet cake was devoured at the party but we managed to bring to cupcakes home and finish them off with some help from our family and neighbors.
With around 40 guests it was best that we had the party catered and hired a bartender. Our caterer supplied us with a variety of sliders, chicken nuggets, chips, nuts, fresh veggies with dip, fresh fruit, loaded potato skins, and sausage kabobs. We served beer, wine, iced tea, lemonade, and water. Everyone was well-behaved and no one danced on the tables.
I promised to expand on some of the events mentioned in my last post.
In February, I was knitting along on my Easy Mosaic socks when I (well, Mr. Aitch agreed) decided to host a family reunion AND anniversary party for us. We married in 1974 and wanted to celebrate the occasion with family and friends. I had four months to get it all organized, which (for someone who never planned much of anything involving more than two handfuls of people) got me into a slight panic.
The brass light fixtures over the breakfast table and island needed updating. Plus I wanted to get new carpeting throughout the house but first wanted to stain the stair treads on each side of the carpeting a darker color.
The new light for over the table was ordered. Mr. Aitch and I installed it in mid-March.
The light fixture over the island was installed in June. I forgot to take a before picture but it was just like the one over the table. I am not an electrician, however, we got both lights up and running without issues other than locating the correct breaker to turn the power off.
We celebrated Pi Day 3.14 with Turkey Pot Pies and an Apple Pie. The turkey was part of our Thanksgiving leftovers which I froze for this very day.
Obviously, I dropped the ball with blogging. In fact, I forget how to make a list here. OK, I found it.
February – I was so enamored with the Mosaic socks that I couldn’t stop knitting but I did. I decided to have a party* in June and needed to deal with a lot of stuff.
March – I wanted new carpeting for the stairs and second floor but first wanted to stain the stairs a darker color.*
April – I was still working on the stairs and encountered a problem during the process*. To clear my head, I visited my BFF in Ohio. We had a wonderful time!
May – I finally finished the stairs and had new carpeting installed*. We went to our oldest grandson’s high school graduation in Michigan. Then a surprise retirement party for my sister-in-law.
June – Cleaned, cleaned, cleaned. We had our family reunion and anniversary party.*
July – Hot, hot, and more hot! I went to my first Book Club meeting*.
August – My neighbor and I decided two months ago to have a combined yard sale so that occupied most of my time. It ended up that I didn’t have as much to sell but still made $101 plus I got rid of stuff. Most of what didn’t sell went straight to Goodwill and not back into the house. As you might know, having a yard sale is way too much work for very little return. After that adventure, I finally got back to my socks and discovered a BIG mistake.
Well, of course, I discovered a BIG mistake.
Here I am past the heel and gusset and two pattern repeats into the foot section.
The leg.Something happened here.
You can see where the heel begins on the far right where the red arrow points.
The row right there is where the BIG mistake happened. The chart was wrong (or so I thought) so I redrew it and went right on knitting the gusset and foot.
When I looked at the sock, something wasn’t right. I know it’s there but you might not be able to see it. It finally dawned on me that I reversed the Main color and the Contrast color.
Could I live with the sock being wonky and wrong? With that busy pattern, who could tell it’s not correct?
Me. That’s who. I am my grandmother’s granddaughter. “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right.”
*More to come (at a later date) about those other projects and events mentioned above.
Knitting In Flashes 