This time, I’m blaming my silence on Anime Expo! It was my first time in Los Angeles. I brought my Artist Alley table, which was not terribly successful, but I had lots of fun anyways. I had authentic LA experiences such as In-n-Out and getting in a car accident on the 110. (In a rental. *sob*)

I got a lot of work done on my Two-At-A-Time, Toe-Up, Magic Loop socks. That’s too hard to say, so I call ‘em the stripey socks. I have no picture, so just imagine some turquoise, stripey, stockinette socks. Knitting on the plane was an interesting experience… My balls of yarn kept wandering off, tangling, and generally being pains. I have a feeling that if I wasn’t dealing with two tiny, slippery balls of sock-weight yarn, it wouldn’t have been a problem.

Here are some things I do have pictures of!

ITEM THE FIRST: Aguona! The laptop bag is toddling along slowly, but surely. The yarn has been irritating my hands lately so I haven’t put a lot into it. Still, I’m almost through the orange stripe and moving back into red territory. This is me performing the dance of joy.

See that spot on the left of the second picture? The one that’s missing the top row of white dots? Yeah, they’re in there, but they’re totally buried. Oops. I’m going to need to duplicate-stitch over those.

Speaking of oops, I made a big one on my new project. Our knitting circle is doing a February Lady knit-a-long, and I’m going at it with gusto. Unfortunately, at one point some stitches fell off the needles, along  with the stitch markers at the increase point. I put them back on in what I thought was the right order, but alas! This was not the case. And me being a super-duper-genius, I didn’t notice for oh, six or ten rows. That’s something like 1800 stitches I need to rip out. ARGH. Check out my amazing photo illustration at the left to see the oops.

Fortunately, I’ve been able to console myself with ten delicious balls of Rowan Felted Tweed. I’m gonna make my husband a sweater as a reward for putting up with me.

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