Poor Puppy but Good Fiber

I sat down in front of Dancing With the Stars to finish the little doggy sweater. I neatly sewed up the side seem, and picked up the pattern to see what comes next.

"...leaving 2 inch opening...."

Huh.

I have fallen victim to the infamous "at the same time" instruction style. Rather, the styrofoam cut out of a dog that would wear this sweater has fallen victim, since I didn't leave a leg hole.

I had a choice of ripping out the seem I had just sewn, or faux-steeking leg holes.



Out came the scissors Bess
gave me and a little while later we had this


Now the poor puppy styrofoam canwalk hang on a wall pretending to walk!

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In the mail today I got a splendid treat! It seems that when Shelia went to SPA last weekend she saw some fiber that kept whispering to her... she said she went back and forth on it several times and then realized that what it was whispering was "send me to Amie"

Good fiber. Well-trained fiber. Way to whisper!

What Shelia doesn't know is that a few weeks ago, Amy was having a little sale, and being a good supportive friend who is suffering from a severe fiber shortage in her own home (my husband just had a stroke reading that) I decided to get a few rovings from her. And I couldn't decide between Mermaid and Water Nymph (I also got Poison, but that was an easy call for me)... I picked Mermaid on a coin toss, telling myself next time I'd get Water Nymph... (or just let Shelia get it for me)

THANKS, Shelia!!!

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As you can see above, we are getting very close to the one-thousand milestone. Do you think the one-thousandth-sock-knitter should get a prize? I'm still trying to decide. If you have something you'd like to donate to either the 1000th sock knitter or the final 2000th sock knitter, let me know (sock yarn would be the obvious choice, and it would be kinda cool if we could get a little stash gifted...) Let me know what you think, and maybe we'll have a nice little gifty for some special knitter!