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Happy Birthday Auntie, if you're peeking!

The best birthday I ever had was when I turned 40 and husband put up balloons and signs in the yard and all over the house and I had a double layer Boston Cream Pie birthday "cake." That one and the 5th birthday that started my musical career with a one octave electronic keyboard and big pink slippers. Any good b-day stories?

special initials

o.k. so a little a.m. knitting got the heel turned BUT... just as there are special initials FO, WIP, DPNS, CIRC, for many things a-knitting, so should there be a special secret knit code for the curses that want to spew from your mouth after such a mistake is made.

i am a stupid head

My procedure for making a sock top down-

1. cast on, knit some ribbing.
2. knit the leg
3. separate stitches and knit half of them for a heel
4. pick up stitches alongside of sock
5. alternate decrease and knit rows until there are the right amount of stitches.
6. continue for foot
7. reduce for toes
8 Kitchener the end

Notice any errors? How about that short row heel shaping. Ignoring everything I know about sock construction and the approximate number of stitches I should have to decrease before moving on to the foot, I ONCE AGAIN failed to turn the heel before attaching to the sides. Only this time I knit 20 rounds down to the original number of stitches and have a sock that looks like it's for someone wearing a cast. Once in 6 months, this is an acceptable mistake if you haven't made socks in a while. Twice in one month is just ridiculous. Even when observing the giant ankle qualities of said sock I reasoned, that's ok, there will be more room for Aunties ankle. I am a stupid head.

Sockatta

Socks- I love 'em. These will be b-day socks for my Auntie if I get them done in time. Don't worry sockless mama- we'll get sock yarn when I'm there and you can pick it out and have some for your b-day too. Sock yarn in tangles- how I hate it. When I learn the magic trick of not tangled sock yarn, I will be a virtual sock making machine. Until then they come here and there when I have enough patience to untangle as much as or sometimes more than I knit. (the pictured tangle isn't the worst of it- the really bad one met an ugly end.)