I’ve started on a new pair of socks using my bamboo birthday yarn.

The bamboo yarn is gorgeous and feels great to knit. It tends to spin a bit so occasionally I dangle the sock to let the yarn untwist itself. Indigo is modeling my recently finished toe.

Things were going well until I had a knitting crisis. Recently I bought a full set of double pointed needles off ebay. When they arrived I was overjoyed. So many needles! But the points gave me trouble. Some of the needles points were blunt, some barely tapered. This made knitting difficult and slow since I was having trouble putting the needle point into stitch after stitch.

No problem I thought. I’ll just sand the needles to make a finer point. I sanded the needles on the sock I’m working on. After all five needles were done I started knitting again. The yarn caught on the yarn, the sharp points kept pricking my fingers, the points didn’t fit into my stitches easily. I had sanded my needles wrong and made them worse!

That’s when I cried. True, I could have resanded them or even gone to the store and bought another pair. But I had been so happy with my ebay purchase and then for not panicking and trying to fix the problem myself. Mind you I’m on my period and my emotions are running high. I’m a little sensitive right now.

Thebes asked to look at my needles. I showed him my hack job and then a pair of good needles. He took the bad needles and some sandpaper and fixed them for me. I cried again but this time it was happy tears. (Sometimes I’m a wee melodramatic it’s true.) Knitting crisis averted I continued on with my sock.

Here’s a picture of my adorable husband cuddling Prana while they both sleep. It’s one of my favorite pictures of the two of them.