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I'm busily working hard on getting ready for the Yarn Party. Dyeing, skeining, and tagging, oh my! Also, hoping to split some skeins up into mini toe and heel skeins for the give away goodie bags for the first 100 customers.
Meanwhile, I'm learning all the in's and out's of the girl scout cookie sale. who knew it was all so complicated! To get extra cookies for bookie booth sales at your local grocery store, one must make a deposit to one of the Council's many bank accounts, and then one must drive to a local cookie depot to pick up extra cases of cookies using the deposit slip as currency. Sadly, the entire National Capital area has run out of Girl Scout cookies until the bakery in Kentucky bakes and delivers more. Wow! Anyone have any extra lemon cremes or thin mints?
During the merchildren's swim practices, I have been steadily knitting the boy's pirate hoodie. Once i had completed much of the body, I noticed that it was narrower than i'd intended. Not narrower than the boy, who was re-measured and determined to be 27" around. Bit not as wide as he'd like it to be. I decided to knit 2" wide gussets to give the body extra width and performed my very first steek in order to insert them under the arms.
I considered using crochet steeks, but felt they'd acc extra bulk under the arms. So I pulled out my poor lonely sewing maching, threaded it with pink thread, and sewed reinforcing lines two stitches apart. Super narrow, yes, but the idea is to add width here and I've never been a wimp:)
