Thermalgal’s Temperate Mumblings

Dinky Monkey

March 24, 2008 on 11:39 am | In Uncategorized | Comments Off on Dinky Monkey

Since I couldn’t work on the baby blanket this weekend, I decided to finally start a pair of Monkey Socks using the Dinky Dyes sock yarn I bought at CATS in September.  The yarn is sparkly rainbow colored and the stars must have been aligned just right since I’m getting a really cool rainbow effect with 64 stitches on size 2 needles.  And they are going really fast.  I started Friday night and I’m currently finishing up the gusset (they are top down).  Once my camera and compact flash card are in the same room, I’ll get a photo of it.  I’ll also get some photos of my broken needles and the baby blanket (I’m on the first of two intarsia blocks).

You know how they say things come in threes?  Well, after breaking my needles on Thursday night, DH broke the scale on Saturday morning (not sure why since his weight is going down with all the running he is doing in the mornings) and then Saturday afternoon we discovered that our water bed sprung a leak.  We had been thinking about replacing it anyway since with the multiple moves (from Sue’s house to ours and then again after we bought the house), the baffling was all wonky.  Until we can figure out what we want, we put our old mattress on the bed.  I’m not sure how long we will be able to live with it before we start screaming in pain and run out and pay lots of money for a Select Comfort bed.