whew end of day on friday and ready to go home.
i forgot to mention that i sent an email to my work's CLASSIFIED ads last week seeking other interested knitters at the workplace to start an after-work knitting group. i got some good responses and enough (about a dozen) interested that i am going to hold a first meeting next week! i am excited... we can meet in our company's huge cafeteria which is open 24/7 and the kitchen is open til 9 pm so folks can get whatever they want to munch on.

i had tried to start a group in park slope a couple of years ago and it didnt work out. so i am glad that this may - it seems as if there are a lot of newbies but thats fine - i would like to spend some time doing charity knitting and others are interested too. we'll see how it goes.

finished the cowl on wednesday night - after hair appt and getting home at an unbelievably early hour for me - 630 pm! then after that i worked on that best baby sweater and didnt like it so frogged it and then gave up for the night - thursday i had some stomach something (probably food poisoning) so after sleeping most of the morning - while recupping on the sofa, started a little aran cardigan i had designed for my nephew but in wool for the colleague's baby - but the red wool i had is too bulky and i needed something red as its a heart design - so frogged that after an hour of work - it was way too big for a new baby- and then got out the Falick/Nichols baby book and fllipping thru - found the baby aran sweater - funny how i hadnt remembered seeing it before... anyway its perfect and i have some patons wool that is a decent weight for it - am doing it in the round - its basically ft and bk with open shoulders with buttons. cast on and got about 5 inches done while watching FARMERS DAUGHTER (a fav) and a spencer tracy film - THE LAST HURRAH which i had never seen - very interesting John Ford film about tracy as an irish mayor who loses his last reelection and - good acting and dialogue and of course great depth of casting. a good evening.

still waiting for my package from schoolhouse press with the new Sally Melville book - sigh i had hoped it would come today - but i will have to make do this weekend with out it... anticipation especially to see and read about the Einstein coat everyone is talking about on the knit lists.

ok im off home now - to watch britcoms and knit and take out some of the newspapers in the five foot high stack... yikes.
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