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Last Saturday evening, I was browning meatballs when the phone rang...

me: "Hi Mom"
M: "What is the name of the yarn store you took me to?"
"Article Pract"
"what time are they open tomorrow? I want to take your dad to browse"
"hold on, let me go look" (turn down the meat balls...) "they are open from 11-6"
"oh good, that will be fine. that's all"

The meat balls were overdone (whoops!) Dad loves hand knitted sweaters. Mom did not have patience to knit him sweaters is the story she told me. (what about now?! heheh ) I knitted two sweaters for him already (and two for mom too). I offered to knit another sweater for him. Sunday morning, I called and reminded Mom that she should buy one ball, swatch, and I will procure the sweater amount.

This morning, she called to say Dad picked out "r-o-w-a-n ... 4 -ply", in black. She means "Rowan 4 ply Soft" - 4 ply merino. Dad wants a layering sweater, that does not pill, and in black. Mom tried to talk him out of tiny gauge "takes a long time". Clearly, he does not care about knitting a black tiny gauge sweater :) I asked Mom to swatch (tiny gauge!) and go from there ...

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• One travel knit. ( Free destash yarn and free pattern)
• One sesame ball. ( 3/$1 sheesh. dont tell dad)
• One plate of homemade turnip cake. (Thanks Mom!)
• One short trip to SF (BART rocks)
• One visit to yarn store with Mom. $3.29

Mending a hole in a second hand sweater Mom was alternating for herself, priceless.

Sometimes, it is more pleasant to look at the bright side, instead of the crap crap crap situation. For example, this time around, we paid an arm and a leg for my interview trip. BUT ... who wants to think about that?! I prefer some sanity, if just for a moment.

J rescued me from travel-knit-paralysis with a good pattern pick. On the flight, the girl next to me was crocheting a cotton wash cloth for her mom. It took a bit of effort for me not to crafty-geek out on her. whoops. The lady across the isle had a sweater part (arm I think). The lovely flight attendance asked what I was making... that's a whole of lot of craftness.

Mom made turnip cakes for me, and transportation to and from BART station. Mom rocks. After the interview, we went to Article Pract. I have no idea why I overlooked this LYS for so long. It is a wonderful shop with lots and lots and lots of variety. It is awesome. Mom found a bag of Noro Kureyon in the 'sale hallway'. :) On our way home, we stopped at TJ for more dried cranberries (Dad really liked them and requested some more!). I told Mom the story how G ate all the Route 29 - Red & Black Licorice Piglet I brought back last time. So we stopped at Peet's (next to TJ) and she bought another tin (for G!). Spoil!

As with most visits, Mom is always working on some project. This time, it is a selvage hand knitted sweater (garage sale? second hand?). The sleeves were too long and it had a hole. I offered to mend the hole for her ... "but I would need some yarn". She ripped the sleeve seam, handed me the sleeve and some yarn. (Look closely, and you will see the spot).

Time to join the rest of the reality show. Happy almost Thanksgiving!

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ravelry link

In another notes, just to re-enforce that 'no good deed goes un-punish" ... DH was gone for both days of the weekend, doing absolutely-no-housework-no-idea-what, while I finished my weekend chores and started his sweater (ravelry project). Go figure.

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... to de-lint a black Peace Fleece sweater, that took over a month to knit, in a house with two fuzzies?

(ravelry link)

well, about two dozen sheets. There were bits of vegetation from the yarn, lots of fur, and small amt of piling (from the spin cycle). It is all done. I really like the knit and the buttons. The buttons took a long time to find. I finally asked a [commercial seller from HK] on etsy to source it for me. Now that it is out of my system ... I will stop procrastinating and go back to what I should be doing.

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