Did my usual Friday-night Laundrypalooza.

Opened the washer after doing a load of darks to find what no knitter wants to find - a loose thread.

This was the result:



The bind off of one of my Crocodile socks had let loose, and the sock had partially unraveled. This is really very sad, as these had become one of my favorite pairs of socks.

So I looked at the sock, and decided to pick the stitches back up, and try to reknit the toe. I realized I didn't know where the stitches had raveled back to, so I just sort of had to guess. I had 32 stitches, which meant I was just about at the "knit 2, k2tog" part of the round toe decrease. So I knit a round or two, for safety's sake, and then continued with the decreases.


And it worked! The socks are all fixed now. That kind of thing makes me irrationally happy.

I also forced myself to grade all 24 of the student papers Friday night, and then got up early Saturday morning and wrote the exam. This was so I'd have free time to take my quilt down to Mary to have it quilted.

Here's the top. (It's a Yellow Brick Road pattern). Please disregard the magazines on the left.


And, I don't normally show you the backings, but here's the one for this quilt. It's a Frankenbacking. I didn't have enough of any one fabric, so I had to piece it:



I thought it was sort of ugly but one of the women hanging out in the shop and kibitzing liked it because she saidit was "arty."

Today, I hope to finish a couple small knitting projects. And sometime, I want to get back to the Hiawatha shawl. And I have a chocolate brown and pink quilt top in mind I want to make.