Today is the very first day of NaBloPoMo and so I begin my third run at all-blogging-all-the-time November with three things:
1. I handed in the beginnings of my Introduction and a pretty well complete Chapter One to my supervisor on Friday. It's just about finished. It could do with more work. I'd quite like another week to work on it, but I recognise that Evidence of Research is required and Further Editing can come later.
2. Last week Made by Loumms sold its third Sock-Perfect WIP bag!! And I did a little dance before jumping on Matthew to tell him the good news. We have so far sold one bag to someone in America, one SEKRIT bag for a Secret Pal swap partner and now this one (and to Ali, no less, for whom its buttons are perfect!)!
I shall have to post, one day, about when Lou called to tell me that we'd had our very first WIP bag order and I nearly fainted and how we both started jumping up and down screaming in delight and how, after we had calmed down a bit, Lou asked tentatively, 'So what do we do now?' and I replied, 'We send it off, I guess,' and she said, 'That's it?' which sent us into shrieks of hysterical laughter, because it just seemed so ludicrous that we could have sold something to someone who lives on the other side of the world and all we had to do now was take it down to the post office. The Other Side of the World. It's mental.
3. I had a dream last night that I found a huge hand-knit blanket in one of our closets, which I had apparently made but stashed away and forgotten. When I opened it up, it was covered in moth holes. I was kind of pissed off, because nothing else anywhere had been touched but this one blanket I'd made. But then I realised it was made with acrylic yarn and was really annoyed with myself for making a whole blanket out of acrylic -- it was a patchwork of puke pink, pus yellow, conjunctivitis red acrylic. No wonder I'd hidden it away. So I put it back in the cupboard and decided that if it made the moths happy, they could take it.
Just saw the button WIP bags, and I love them! Just added the psychedelic one to my holiday wishlist - should be the perfect match to the sock club membership my son is giving me. Also, I think I'm going to do your Edwardian boating sock for SKA's November challenge. Since I'm moving in a few weeks, I don't think I'll be doing the mosaic mystery sock until December, but I have to have something fun to do in between packing and unpacking!
Posted by: Barb | November 01, 2009 at 06:40 PM