Time to Bring Out the Socks

Chicky and I are on the road again.
This weekend, we’re in Atlanta, which cannot go by the nickname “Hotlanta” cause it’s FREEZING!
When we left home (i.e. Florida) at 6:30am, it was 50 degrees.  My phone has a weather application, and I checked it as we traveled.
When we hit Dothan an hour and a half later, [...]

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My Week – In Pictures

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Traffic Jams, Soccer, and Knitting

It’s another weekend, and guess what I’m doing?
Sitting in a hotel after a day spent on the soccer fields.
We drove to Jacksonville after school on Friday.  We moved right along until a few miles outside of town, where we hit a major traffic snafu…

Ugh…what a mess!  We checked the GPS and saw that there were [...]

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Star Struck

Ok…so I didn’t get to go to Sock Summit.

If you’re not a knitter, let me explain what Sock Summit was.
It was probably one of the most fantastic knitting get-togethers ever.  Think of it like a Woodstock for knitters.

You know how much I love knitting socks…so I would have loved to have attended.
But I had a [...]

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Socks and Tires

I had a little wrench thrown into my plans this morning.
The grand plan was for me to get up, finish a pair of socks, and take Rooster to the beach to ride go-carts.
Instead, I spent an hour and a half here…

Yeah…I had to go to the auto place to fix this…

I ran over a screw [...]

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AuburnChick Finishes Her 14th Pair of Socks

Hot off the needles…my 14th pair of socks!!
These are my Hanging Vines Socks.

The free pattern can be found here.

I originally cast on using green Koigu KPM, but, as you can see in the picture below, the yarn was knobby and hid the cable work.  As you know, being a good knitter begins with the marriage [...]

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Extreme Sock Knitting

Check out this video.

My addiction pales to this man’s!
Wow!

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Sock Addiction

A few days ago I needed to move my dresser.  I was doing a tiny bit of rearranging, but nobody was home to help me.  So, I removed the drawers to make it lighter.
While doing so, I caught sight of my sock drawer.
Folks, I think I have a problem.
I’m addicted to socks.
And not just ordinary [...]

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AuburnChick Knits Through the Pain

As you may remember, my latest project has been the Leyburn Socks (free pattern found here).
I had been eager to use the Rio de la Plata I bought the weekend of Mother’s Day…

I thought the project was going to be easy and zoomed right through the first foot until I turned the heel and had [...]

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A Week Without the Kids

I’m in a bit of a fog today.
It could be due to the fact that I just saw the kids off at the church…bright and early this morning.  They are headed to camp and won’t return until Sunday evening.  Because they are “leaders,” they had the privilege leaving two days early for a side trip [...]

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