Summer of socks « knit the hell out. This is truly my summer of socks.
This is the seventh pair I have worked on for the summer, and there is an eighth on the needles right now, but that pair is super secret for the time being. I feel sort of like a sock junkie since I can’t seem to go very long without one pair on my needles. Citron. I've been knitting like a maniac during the Olympics, and making good use of all that TV viewing and sofa time!
Here's what I have to show for it: a Citron shawl. Citron is a free pattern on the Knitty.com web site. It was perfect TV knitting - lots of mindless stocking stitch. The instructions are written for 5 repeats of the main pattern, with some extra guidelines for making it bigger, if so desired. I checked ravelry, and saw a bunch of folks had recommended 7 repeats. Stipa et alpaga. Nobody Likes a Braggart. At the beginning of last school year a student came to me with the tattle that one of their friends was showing off.
While I do not necessarily deem this tattle-worthy, we did have a talk about how bragging can hurt other people's feelings and might make other friends not want to play with you. I closed our discussion with the statement that "Nobody likes a braggart. " Unbeknownst to me, another teacher heard me having this conversation and word got out that I used the word braggart with my students (and yes, I did have to explain to the kids what a braggart was).
Melle Coxiblue.
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