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Hello everyone. :)  I hope it’s been a good week for y’all!

Here is this week’s bag!

I got this gem back in October when I was w/ the fam up in Canada. :)  I have yet to use this bag b/c i’m crazy like that.  But isn’t the blue color just fantastic??    man i love all these Tokidoki fakes.

I got a new toy this week and I said I would post up a video of how it rolls. :)   I got a Boye Electric Ball Winder.  I saw it when i was at Joann’s this weekend getting some stuff and i thought “oh no…i gotta try this thing!”   If it sucked, i was just going to return it.  *giggle*.  but i like it!

So as you can see, i couldn’t just turn it on and walk away.  i still had to sit and babysit it while it was winding…and mess w/ the tension a bit while it was winding.  Which isn’t a bad thing.  you have to do that when you wind w/ a crank winder anyway.   but overall …me likes.

I have a small FO to show off.  I finally finished the Crobot I have been promising Janice I would finish for FOREVER!  WHEEE!!

Rosy the Robot.

Project: Wheely - Crobots book (rav link)
Yarn:  Encore Worsted / Lion Brand Wool-Ease
Amount Used: a smidgen of each color
Color:  0520 - grey, heathered pink
Hook Size:  D - 3.25  mm
Date Started: Jan 21, 2010
Date Finished: Jan 23, 2010

It took me longer to pick out the embellishments than to crochet the whole thing. :)   So I used buttons and felt buttons to embellish and I glued them on b/c the recipient is a 2 yr old girl.   Safety eyes were used instead of sewn-on beads.

Janice and I decided to make a crobot each for the manager at BN (where we hang out on Weds), b/c he has a set of twin girls he said would love to have a crobot.  Janice held up her end of the agreement months ago and I finally caught up.  (so bad!)

I guess it’s been a bit of a crochet week.  I’m still knitting on the danish tie shawl, but i’m on the edging part.  that means I’m almost DONE.  wheeee!

But a friend of mine made mention that she loved Rosy the Robot and how cool it would be if i could fashion this into an R2D2.  instead of trying to be original, i did a search on Rav for an R2D2 and i found one.  it’s going to take me forever to embellish it (i should have considered this before i jumped in w/ both feet)…so here is a blurry pic of what it looks like so far.

Dear Debbie asked me today how many pairs of socks I have actually made and I honestly didn’t know.  I took the time to count them all up and my grand total is around 39.   Wow.  not that many.

This topic came up b/c I was helping Ien with his first sock on Sunday and the pattern he used wasn’t very clear.  Actually, it was very confusing.  So i just told him how I knew the basic sock pattern and the formula and we went from there.   That pattern was actually pretty jacked up.

So that came up in conversation on Weds and Debbie asked me how many pairs of socks I had made.  i was kind of curious myself!

NOW….i counted up 39.  BUT…you have to keep some facts in mind.

• I included in this number the Christmas stockings i have done.  ONE stocking doesn’t count as a pair I know…but it is ONE project. hahaha.  and it is a sock.  and the formula for the heel, gusset and toe is all the same.
• I included baby socks in this number b/c even though they were widdle biddy socks…they are still socks.
• I never made a single machine-knit sock, so there was no padding to the number.

that’s it for now, folks!  have a great weekend!