Vote!

...if you want. It doesn't really matter.
My polling place is in walking distance from my house. I arrived shortly after 8 AM. I waited in line about 1/2 hour, here in the battleground state of Nebraska. No ID required. If you know the name and address of a registered voter and beat them to the poles, you could vote instead of them. Vote early and vote often -- that's what I always say.

Happy Halloween!!

I started my Ravelry account, but I had trouble posting my pics on it. I had to put my pictures on Flicker first or something, but I didn't have a Flicker account, and so I went to do that, and it crashed my computer. So I haven't really done much with my Ravelry account yet. But I will when I get some time.

Back to School

The Fall semester is upon us. I've been pretty busy since I got back from England. I taught a 5 week summer course and tried to tie up lots of loose ends. I didn't get it all done so I'm going to be even busier. I start teaching my fall class on Monday. I'll be teaching a seminar Wednesday which will cut into my Wednesday night knitting at B&N.

Ravelry

I just joined the waiting list for Ravelry. Finally! For those of you who don't know, it's a website for knit and crochet where you can talk about knit and crochet, post pictures, and much more. So, I'm going to start posting my knit and crochet pics there and leave this blog for other stuff (if there is any other stuff!) I'll post my Ravelry user name when I get on.

Baby Socks

9 pairs of baby socks for Sewing for Babies.
The striped ones are made with Red Heart Strata. The solids are Caron Simply Soft.
I varied the ribbings and heel flaps a little.
The purple one is all garter stitch from the ribbing down. It makes a cute puffy little bootie.

All the Shawls

In case you didn't know, afghans for Afghans latest campaign is to collect shawls for mothers of newborns treated at a hospital in Kabul, and I've been working on them all Summer, pretty much.
Shawls are due at the a4A collection center in a week, so I'm going to stop making and start sending them now.There's 8 in all. 4 were knit with The Ultimate Sweater Machine. (It's not just for sweaters, obviously.) I crocheted borders on 3 of those, and knit a garter stitch border on the 4th. 3 are all hand crocheted and one is hand knit.
Here's Fuzzy (my other cat, not the one who had the tumor) sitting on one of the crocheted shawls before it was finished. Needless to say, all shawls come with a little cat hair.

The chest next to the chair is fill with, you guessed it, YARN!

England pics

I didn't bring my camera to England, but I bought a disposable. The quality is not great, but better than nothing.

Guarding the entrance to Center Court at Wimbledon

Me at my 3rd row seat on Court 1.

Arnauld Clement in action.
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Some of the historic architecture of Oxford