The best laid plans...

Don't turn out the way my flaky plans do.

The love heart slippers may be the first project that I will actually have to give up on. After finishing the first slipper, I looked at the remains of the skein and concluded that I did not have enough for a second slipper. I didn't think about it for a while, but I needed some other stuff so I started to order a ball of it and lo...it is gone. Shine Sport is still there, but the color Cloud is not.

Now my lonely unseamed sock that is too big for me anyway will never fit.

I ask you, what's a knitter to do?

(I e-mailed knitpicks hoping I had made a mistake - we'll see what I hear)

Drumroll please...

So, what is the pretty object that my darling friend would like to have? That knitted item that shall be of sufficient loveliness to tide her over the period of scrimping and staving that students must endure?

"A really warm hat. And gloves."

I think maybe she missed the point of my offer. Still, I said I would and I will. I asked some questions about what she wanted out of these objects, and provided a couple of examples to see if any of them struck her fancy, including Urban Necessity and Oat Couture Tayberry Hat and Gloves. We'll see what she picks.