Runaway October

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I’ve been work­ing on this blan­ket for awhile now and while I’m pleased at how it’s turn­ing out I’m not pleased with the ten­sion issues I’ve been hav­ing. I also hate to admit it but I found not one but TWO dropped stitches and they’re quite a few rounds back. I’m con­tem­plat­ing frog­ging the whole thing and start­ing over. I think I would prob­a­bly cry while doing it, but I really need to reeval­u­ate my gauge again.

I just hate to use a larger hook because that means larger holes in the throw right? I hate that — makes it too drafty. Actu­ally I just looked back and it seems I may be using too big of a hook already?!

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In other sad news, it’s gonna cost us quite a mint to get the car repaired and the bank has decided not to help us with that as half of our income (mine) is gone. It looks like I’m gonna have to give up all the crafts and fancy recipes again for awhile. I just wish there was some­thing I could do at home with­out becom­ing the Evil­StressQueen of Har­well Street. I wish I was like Dooce and could get paid for each of the mil­lions of read­ers I have. Haha. Nev­er­mind, I think I have 3 but I love you all!

Who is the black sheep in your family/group?

I think it would prob­a­bly be me, hon­estly. You do really stu­pid things when you’re young with­out think­ing about the effect it has on oth­ers. I don’t talk to much of my fam­ily now, and when I do I always feel an under­ly­ing ten­sion. Maybe that’s all in my head though.

If you were a char­ac­ter from a book, what char­ac­ter would you be?

Hmm… Any book? That’s alot to choose from. For some rea­son Alice from Alice in Won­der­land popped up first — Maybe because I’m lost and con­fused alot. If I could choose the char­ac­ter, maybe one of the elves from Tolkien’s World?

What’s your favorite accent?

I love just about any accent, except for Span­ish ones but I think that’s because I hear it alot here in Ari­zona. I espe­cially melt over Irish, British and Aus­tralian. Cana­dian accents are very nice too.

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