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Sometimes its the search tags that bring people to my blog that bring me the most joy and the above title is a fantastic example of that! I dont know how but I had 4 people find my blog by searching with those words together. Kinda makes me wonder…
Alternate title for this post? Connection #1
I think there’s some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom. ~Alan Rickman
Most interestingly, there has been no spinning of Intentions: Connection roving in this past week.
Really, I meant to and had all, pardon the pun, intentions to do so, but it just didnt happen because somethings else got in the way. Somethings that really belie the connection that I want to establish and culture for the future.
I knit Hanukkah presents for M’s kids and to me, this was establishing a connection that was far above anything else that I could have meditated on whilst treadling at the wheel. There eventually will be a time when these children are going to be a part of my family and I will be a part of theirs and it is in the making of these simple gifts that I wanted to start building that connection. I made the hats in only a few days apiece and I love them and will make more of this pattern, Sakura by David Castillo, for others in the future.
But it was the knitting of them that really impacted me. Hats are simple, easy even and Davids pattern, though beautiful at the crown, is mind-numbing like all 2×2 ribbing always is. What was it that made these hats special and have an impact on me? It was that I was knitting them for 2 very special people who I have never had the pleasure of meeting but who I very much want to know and want them to know me because I love their father. I thought about how, though we will be across the country from each other, I still want to be a part of their lives despite the distance. I thought about how old they may be before I finally meet them or how long it will be before we can make that trip. There are so many unknowns but there is one certainty; I WANT to have a connection with these amazing children, M’s children, and to me, knitting is my highest expression of love and connection.
Another aspect of my knitting connection is that I got a care package from home, full of Hallowe’en goodies AND knitting goodies. 
I needed, really needed, snaps and grosgrain ribbon so I could finish my Duplicity and Mum came through! 
Now, let me tell you what kind of special hell that was. I HATE with every fibre of my being, and that is a lot of fibre, let me tell you, sewing on snaps. Not only do you have to measure and mark each and every one but there are 2 to each snap. I sewed on 24 snap pairs which means 48 times I had to measure, pin, tack, sew, knot, cut and start again. It took me 3 nights. Yes, 3 whole evenings to do all that because there is only so much time one can spend head bent over kitchen table with navy thread sewing black snaps onto navy grosgrain ribbon. But its done and I will never again finish a sweater with snaps, no matter how interesting. A reversible zipper would have suited just fine, thankingyouverymuch.
Forgive the dirty mirror and the self pics, I need my photographer to return! 
And on the topic of needing my photographer to return, I have started the countdown for M coming home. While I’ve missed him, I’ve also really enjoyed having time being me. And then it hit me…the only difference between the Me I am when M is here and the Me I am when he is gone is the level of yarn strewn about the house. Well, that and the amount of time that I spend on Facebook trying to keep in touch with someone 4 timezones away! The latter is another form of my connection with M when travelling and my family which is spread helter-skelter across the states. We keep in touch thru phone calls, care packages, cards, emails and most recently, Facebook. Of all things, I think its the Facebook that I can give up the easiest and I really cant wait until I won’t need to log in so often.
Anyway, seeing that me is me, no matter if M is here or not was quite eye opening. It made me feel so much better. See, one of my biggest fears about being in a relationship is that I would lose the part of me that made me me in favor of being ‘a couple’. I’ve had 2 other relationships and it was the first that started teaching me that I could always be myself if my partner loved me for me. In fact, I learned a lot about being me and the things that I like FROM him 🙂 He is still a good friend and someone I trust. The second relationship taught me that I was perfectly fine being “alone” in a relationship while my partner was gone doing his own thing. Yeah, there is the importance of being together, but I was more than wonderful without him…so much so that I think it may have been one of the reasons the relationship ended. Now, with M, we have spent more time apart than we have together but really, its only made things better. We savor every moment that we are together, have little things that we do together but also make us work apart. The connection we have…now that is something to really meditate on. And until the 12th, thats what I’ll be spinning my wheel to.
For all who know me, even only online, me saying, “I’m a bit of a geek” comes as A) no surprise and/or B) an understatement. My new-ish geeky thing is my continued love of all things Whedonesque trickling in via Firefly. One of the phrases that I really like, a word really, is “Shiny” to describe anything that is good, happy and an all around replacement for ‘cool’.
Sisu thinks that her mum is shiny for giving her the peanut butter jar…
But knows that it wouldn’t be shiny to get her nose stuck in there so she’ll hold it with her paws and stick as much of her lower jaw in as possible while still being able to lick…
Heaven is the leavings of a peanut butter jar.
I think I’m pretty shiny with the finishing of my first lace project with lace yarn:
But working with such fine yarn was NOT shiny for me, despite how shiny the finished project is 
Forgive my very frizzy hair
but I was very happy to be done! There will be more shrugs in my future, just no more laceweight ones!
This post is photo heavy but no where nearly has heavy as the fishy post! On the Finished Object front, I finished a pair of socks this week, finally took photos of finished baby socks done last weekend.
First up…Toe Ups! 
The socks are the Van Dyke lace toe up socks from Wendy Johnson’s book “Socks from the Toe Up”. I know I said before that I dislike knitting socks from the toe up because of the sizing/fit (as in they don’t), but I wanted to give them another another try. My Mod Chic socks 
were toe up with a Slip Stitch heel (heel flap) (and went to my sister because A) she wanted a new pair and B) they were too big for me) and my Pickle socks 
employed the Short Row heel (which doesn’t fit perfectly and always feels ‘off’ somehow) while these are toe up with a Gusset heel…no heel flap.
Oh my gosh, they feel and fit great and I am pretty darn sure that when, not if, I knit toe-up socks again, in the near future I’m sure, I will be using this heel again. Another amazing thing? I used DPN’s. And not onlly did I use the DPN’s, I LIKED using the DPN’s AND didn’t get ladders! Usually when I knit in the round, I hold the yarn and needles in such a way that the right side is toward the centre and the wrong side is facing outward. For most people, this is backwards. I have no idea why I knit in the round like this, I just have. Oddly, this time I wasn’t doing that. It wasnt a conscious effort on my part and just happened…maybe because I was doing toe-ups? The yarn I used has been in my stash since December ’07, the December shipment of the WoolGirl ’07 Sock Club…from which I have made these: 
I KNOW I made a pair of socks from this 
though it looks like I never took a photo and I also know I walked through them, and still have this 
patiently waiting in my stash. December was Spruce Sprigs by The Unique Sheep and I was very excited to use it though I have no idea why. I know the Yarn Harlot was going through a green phase so maybe I was influenced by her but maybe it was more along the lines that things are finally starting to green up around here and it is looking less brown and I wanted to do my part to encourage Green in Nelson Lagoon. Whatever the reason, I LOVE these socks and they are right now drying in the laundry room on the water heater after their bath and Soak.
Drying along side of my Green V’s are a pair of Baby J’s.
Bearfoot: Steelhead on US 2, 2 circs, 1 toe-up, 1 top down (cause I forgot!)
Now, I’ve never knit a pair of Jaywalkers before though I know its one of those patterns that just about everyone and their sock knitting mother has done. I was always scared off by the stories of “Well, I knit the first one of the pair but when I tried it on, I couldn’t get it over my heel so I had to frog it” that I read. The stitch pattern by nature isn’t very elastic and since socks have to be knit with negative ease to keep them from falling/sagging, this leads to classic problems. A good way to get into the pattern AND use a bit more of my Bearfoot Steelhead yarn was to do these “baby” sized so at the very least if they turned out to be a little tight to get over a heel, at least they could fit a smaller child and the bagginess of the foot wouldn’t matter so much AND they wouldn’t be easily kicked off 🙂 I improvised the pattern a little to increase the stitches from my normal baby sock pattern (44 instead of 40) to use the stitch pattern (R1: K all, R2: kfb, k3, dd, k3, kfb)*. In a week we shall see! I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Colins feet aren’t too big for them already and if they are, well, I’m sure they will not wait long in my “baby gift” stash before the next child comes…and I will take measurements for a pair that WILL fit too.
In the WIP front, I finished the 1st of my handspun socks from Spunky Eclectic “Soul Windows” which was the April ’09 colourway. Pattern is Rocky Butte by Miss Violet and I’m using US 2 in magic loop.
I had Navajo plyed this yarn and for some reason, and don’t ask me how because I cant remember how I split the fiber when I was spinning it, I managed to spin it so all the dark sections of colour were at one end and all the lighter were at the other. This means that one sock (the first) is going to be dark…
and the second is going to be light… 
The important things, however, is/are that no matter their fraternal nature, A) they will be MY HANDSPUN socks and B) there looks to be enough yarn to make the second one. I hope. The finished first sock weighs between 27 and 28 grams and the ball of yarn left over is between 27 and 28 grams. In hindsight, I should have done these toe-up as well but since I started them before I discovered the amazingness that is the gusset heel, I can’t be blamed for not wanting to have another ill-fitting pair of socks, especially since they would be out of handspun. Worst case scenario is that I have a toe of a different colour on this second sock which, in the scheme of things, isn’t bad at all since no one ever sees the toes anyway and those that do are still impressed that I knit the socks themselves, not to mention the spinning of the yarn too.
The other major WIP is…Me!
This week I had a realisation.
I’m not this person anymore.
February ’10: 5’9″, 208lbs, US 16 (pushing 18) trousers, XL-L shirts/stretchy clothes.
I can’t wear what I used to because, well, It Just Doesn’t Fit and, quite frankly, ITS FALLING OFF!
This was a shock really. Now, I know this sounds stupid but really, when I looked in the mirror, I still saw the woman above. Yes, I know that I was wearing smaller sized jeans and I know that I always had to pull up my running pants for the first mile because they were literally falling off but in my head, I saw the rolls and bulges of that other woman. In comparison to the Before, my After waist/hip ratio was the same. All my bulges were still there…smaller, but there. Running and exercise in general will shrink them but the ratio will stay. My hips and thighs will always be a point of ‘flair’ and I will always have a little bulge below my belly button. And thats how they will be.
It is really, really hard to see changes in yourself or changes that have been slowly happening to you or those around you…ask anyone who comes/goes to visit children. The first words usually spoken after “Hello” are “My you have grown!/Look how big you are!/Wow! S/He has gotten so big/tall!” You just don’t see it if you are too close and I was too close to really see things.
Earlier that week, M brought me over a pair of UA running pants that she just got in. Sadly, instead of getting the petites that she ordered, she was sent regulars and they were way too long…so she gave them to me. When she handed me the trousers, I didn’t think for a moment that I could actually fit them…they are Mediums, FPS! I can’t remember EVER wearing medium ANYTHING. And then I put them on. And they fit. So we took a picture 🙂
And then a friend, P, told me that she had been cleaning house and had come across a few pairs of size 8’s that were too big for her and that if I wanted them, they were all mine. I thought, ‘Wow, that would be great to pick up, if only to see how close I am and give me something to strive towards”, so I told her that I would love to have them. I went across the street just before M came over for a walk (in 40 sustained and 50 gusts, I do not run!) and picked up what were going to be my goal/skinny jeans. Just looking at the tag was scary and holding them up, I just could not imagine getting my butt, not to mention my thighs and hips, into them with any semblance to “Fitting”.
Such was my thinking as I shucked my pair of 12s and pulled on the new 8s while standing in my entry way with M waiting outside to walk. They seemed a bit tight across the hips as I was standing there and I know I thought, ‘I’ll never get these buttoned, let alone zipped without MAJOR overflow if at all!’ And, “Wow, though these are a bit tight, they are low rise and will be perfect as my inspiration jeans”.
And they are…
Just not in the way I was thinking…
Because I stopped thinking…
Because the button was buttoned…
And the zipper zipped…
And I breathed like normal…
For all of a split second before starting to hyperventilate…
Because…
Well…
They. Fit.
June ’10: 5’9″, 160lbs, size 8 jeans, size medium workout trousers, M-L shirts (cause I have long arms)
I played around with all sorts of titles for this post. Mostly there were Jack and the Beanstalk references but after my plethora of puns, I thought it would be nicer to spare you…for now.
Last night I finally finished a pair of socks that I have felt that I was working on just this side of forever. When I checked my Ravelry page for them, I found that I pretty darn close. It usually takes me between 2 weeks (if I am monogamous and knit everywhere) and 2 months (more usual because I am a shameless project hussy) to knit a pair of socks. This pair? 7 months, 20 days. With that sort of time devoted, you would expect knee-high lace or maddeningly intricate cables. Instead, you get these:
66 stitch rounds of slip stitch ribs, one of my favorite and fall-backs of sock ribbing. The only difference is that these were knit toe-up instead of my usual top down. The yarn is Duet Sock Yarn in Middy, bought from The Loopy Ewe back in December ’07. I divided the two skeins of contrasting yarn into 2 separate balls each and put them aside. I love the colour and their lack of pooling with the only exception of being on the heel turn of sock #1. I tried a new skill with these socks, a toe-up heel flap and I have to say it was easier than I thought it would be and I like it more than I thought I would but I still prefer knitting socks going the other way ’round. It was nice to be able to make the leg until I ran out of yarn though so I will likely play with this template of sock knitting for a few more pairs. I dont think that I will do contrasting heels, toes and cuffs in the future though; I hated weaving in all those ends! Though they look good, 10 per pair, 20 total is more than I had to weave in on my sweater. Pass.
Normally I would have a shot of the modeled socks too, mainly because I think that they look absurdly long-footed just laying there (they fit well, I promise), but not just yet. These socks are being held ransom. My sister, who is not a knitter, is to be the eventual recipient of these socks but until I see some pictures from her trip to AZ with my nephew, they are staying in Alaska. We’ll see how fast I get photos, especially since she knows all about the bliss that is Tashie knit socks and according to Mum, could do with a new pair because she is wearing the last ones out.
In other news, a new baby is getting ready to come into the world and greet her anxiously awaiting parents. I had fully planned on having Tashie knit baby things there and awaiting her but that hasnt happened. Actually a good thing in the end as my friend A is quite well stocked with little baby things for now and the upcoming spring/summer in MI. My woolly love, while quite needed for all 12 months in most of AK, would be totally out of place there. I have plenty of time to plan and start to be done by September. (Remind me of this time boast around the end of August) So I started here:
4oz of June ’09 Spunky Club in the Selfish Colourway
Fluffed and split into 3 sections, each much bigger than the original but roughly 38g each
And being spun to create what I hope will be a DK weight 3ply in the end. While I usually draft a lot more before spinning, I am trying something new this time and luckily, I love how its coming out already.
Its going to be so beautiful and soft, just like the little one that gets to wear it! I hope you will like it too A and I’ll keep you posted as it moves into a more wearable form 🙂
Some days it just takes me a little while longer to get posting. Take this post…I knew I wanted to make it on Sunday, uploaded the pictures on Monday and only now, Tuesday afternoon, am I sitting down to focus to write it. Not that its anything big or well thought out, just my usual random ramblings. Showing off my finished socks…
Cherry Tree Hill DK 100% Superwash Merino in the “Pickle Juice” colourway knit 2 by 2 rib, toe up (Judys Magic Cast On) Magic Loop on 2’s. I had split the ball into 2 skeins and actually, it was nearly a perfect split and the socks are nice and long, just how I like them. I did short row heels and while I think I could have made the foot 4-5 rows shorter and still been OK, I think that these will wear nicely and be a good template for future socks.
These were finished about the same time we were experiencing this kind of weather…
So they were perfect and kept my toes toasty warm. Don’t be fooled by her ears being folded back, she doesnt like having her picture taken and was in “play” a second later. See?
Also on my needles are two pairs of socks (Duet Middy in Mod Chic and OnLine in Creamsicle(self titled))
and one of the many baby socks (finished and woven in last night), this one is Mountain Colors Bearfoot in Chinook. Someone said, ‘like the Chinook Pass’ but I see it like the salmon, what I call a “King”. I’ve seen all these colours in the fish so it makes it perfect for socks from the wild, Alaskan auntie to give fish-inspired socks 🙂 The stitch pattern is Jaywalkers.
The mystery sweater is still on hold as I wait for Knit Picks to get more Spruce WOTA in stock. I have 2 balls left but I need those 2 to help blend in the other balls which will come from a different dye lot. Now, I know better than to use 2 different dye lots but as I wasnt going to knit another pair of Felted Clogs from this yarn, there is very little I can do that will fit me with only 770 yards of wool. I wont give non-superwash wool as gifts to anyone other than fellow knitters because of the felting potential and I want to use the yarns I have in my stash, thus, the blending of the two dye lots. I think it will be just fine but knock on wood for me just in case.
Off the wheel is Myrtle (of which I MUST buy more in the future). 4 ounces I 3 plied, 4 ounces I Navajo plied. I’m not sure which I like more. The 3 ply is all tweedy and the colours blend so well, I really love it but the N-ply is gradual changes and even-ness. I love them both. Here is the 3 ply for your viewing enjoyment 🙂 The N-ply was still drying when I took the photos so y’all will just have to wait to see that one.
On the wheel now is Spunky Club April ’09 “Soul Windows”,
a Corriedale/Nylon blend which is going to become sock yarn so I split 4oz in half and am spinning each 2 oz into a long single to be N-plied to become, eventually, a pair of socks. I love the grabby nature of this yarn and think that it will be very pretty when done. I’m not such a fan of it in the fiber but as its being spun…yummy. Pictures of the yarn in progress to come soon. Eventually I’ll be caught up and able to spin with the group! My personal goal, not stated anywhere else, is that during the Olympic week (because I don’t have TV, I wont be watching), I will spin like a mad woman and get through a few months. I know that there arn’t many (any?) wheeled sports in the winter Olympics and really, knitting seems more right for the Winter Games, but this year and this time around, spinning is it for me.
I’m thinking about starting the “Wham, Bam, Thank you Lamb“(Rav link only) neck garter/cowl with my handspun Vera and with 370 yards, I know I would have enough to do about 3. I’ll see how it works just knit with one strand and then may modify as needs be. I need something like this for my neck covering while I am outside (yup, outside) running (yup, running!) around the airport. The wind here can be vicious and while I dont always run on the super windly days, I AM always out on my walks with Sisu and I’ll take every bit of caulking I can get. Something superwash, wool, warm and simple…I think this project is it! Well, that an the size 8 needles, which is a great change from my 1’s, so my hands are happy too!
The original plan called for:
“4 totes/suitcases worth of “Things”, my wheel box, a small single yarn tote and a small tote of “Dog stuff”. This doesnt include food or a freezer but really puts the focus on my “things” Books that I dont read, little knick-nacks that I havent touched since I packed them 6 months ago, magazines that I keep for a single special thing, clothes that I dont really love or wear, yarn scraps or leftovers…stuff in general, 90% not needed by me.”
And I came to realise that I have only 4 novel books that are beloved, a Bible and a Book of Common Prayer. None of which I would throw out. Ok, so I need to look at knick-knacks. Those things that gather dust…but I also realised that I only have 4 of those too. An elephant statue that my Nana meant for me to have in her memory, a pair of ceramic hedgehogs in a pot from my sister one Christmas, a walrus carved by a student out of walrus ivory and a Holly Hobbie plate from my first Alaskan boss (who was really from Michigan) that reads, “A smile can turn a rainy day to sunshine”. Nope, not getting rid of any of that.
Ok, so there has to be some major destashing of yarn, right? Well, yes…in part. I put all my single skeins of random-ness into a box for goodwill and all my leftovers of everything but sock yarn too. I took a long hard look at my socks yarn stash and have decided to go “cold sheep” until I have knit thru at least half of it. I still have 2 skeins in there from 3 years ago and I dont want things to get out of hand! Sweater yarn? Well, I have enough for a few (3) but that is far from crazy. I have the yarn for a 6 of my stranded hats but nothing excessive, especially since I have been working on creating new designs for them. Leftovers? Into the Goodwill bin. Fiber? Nope. I didnt even touch it. Why? Because A) I’ve only been spinning a year and havent ‘really’ got that much and B) Since I have only been spinning a year, I havent yet learned enough so I need lots to learn on 🙂
In reality, the yarn and fiber didnt get a full cull because knitting and spinning is what I DO. It is what I do first thing in the morning, in the quiet evenings and into the night. It is how I keep my sanity in overly slow hours at work when there hasnt been a patient in a few days and all the meds have been counted and re-ordered multiple times. It is my companion with a cuppa in the morning and at lunch after I eat. Movies would be more boring if I had to just sit there. There is only so many times a person can throw a froggie for her doggie before her hands are itching to do something else. So I knit. And spin. Considering that I could do and want to do a lot of other crafts too, I consider myself lucky that I am holding it to only the two. Moving along:
Clothing: 2 suitcases. Coats, shoes and handknit sweaters are in a large tote of their own. Why this change? I live in Alaska. I need various jackets for various temperature readings and I swear to you that short-sleeved shirts take up less space than long ones do. If you didn’t count all my scrub tops for clinic work, I’m sure everything could fit into…well, 2 suitcases and a small tote. Shoes need their own box so they dont get other things dirty. Thats my story and I’m sticking to it. I did pass along a few shirts that I havent worn in ages, some sweatshirts that I dont wear anymore, a few pairs of trousers that are too big and all my non-wool socks save for 3 cotton pairs and 2 non-wool but very fun socks. If I can ever knit myself wool socks with sushi on them, I’ll bin this pair.
Kitchen: I have still got the 2 saucepans, 2 skillets (one cast iron, the other non-stick), 3 sharp knives, a spoonula, spatula, whisk, chopsticks, 2 pyrex baking pans, a 6 well muffin tin, large-ish mixing bowl and a can opener. There are 3 mugs that I would pack but other than that, I would be OK with leaving my dish-set and flatware for 4. Oh yeah, and 2 water bottles.
In owning to everything, I DO have 2 towels, a Kindle, a CD sleeve, 2 DVD sleeves, a hot water bottle and 2 Macs and an iPod Classic that I wouldnt leave behind and a bottle of blackberry/black currant wine that I am saving and a bottle of Celestial Meads in the special edition with Pomegranate from last year. But the last I am saving for a very special occasion. Like maybe something coming up soon. I’ll tell you when I know more 🙂
All in all? 2 suitcases, 4 large totes, 2 small totes and a wheel box. And a dog kennel. But that last doesn’t really count as mine as it belongs to Sisu. I am very happy with what I have and with what I do not.
The name “Phoebe” has always been a favorite of mine. Don’t ask why, it just is. Would I name my daughter Phoebe? Nope. Not a chance. With the shortening of the name to “Fee” or worse still, “Phoebles”, there is no way I can do that to any child, not to mention a dog! If you know the literary reference to little “Phoebles”, leave a comment and we will figure out a prize together 🙂
Anyway, name aside, I present, My Phoebe
and boy, oh boy, do I ever love her. Everything about her. The yarn colour choice, the hand, the fabric, the twisted stitch pattern…brilliant everything. She is blocking now or I would be wearing her, despite the bright sunshine outside.
Specs:
Pattern: Phoebe Pullover Pattern by KnitPicks Designers
Yarn: Knit Picks Wool of the Andes – Sapphire Heather – 10-11 balls (I cant remember if I bought 13 or 14 balls but I have 3 left over!) Between 1100 and 1210 yds. worsted weight
Needles: Knit Picks Options Nickle Size 6 (4mm) (ribbing and sleeves thru increases) and 7 (4.5mm), circular needles all.
Commentary: The pattern had been drooled over for months and months and with the great decision of someone using a most amazing gift, I spent part of the KnitPicks gift card that my sister and mum gave to me for Christmas the past year. Wonderful pattern and I cant wait to use it (roughly) again. Because it is all based on your own measurements, it is a perfect fit. I am already planning changing little things so I can use the rough outline of the pattern, based on EZ saddle shoulder sweater ‘recipe’, to make a cardigan with lace inset saddle shoulders! There was a last second phone call to my mum when I couldn’t quite figure out the saddle sholder shaping as it went back and forth but, like almost all phone calls to her in the throes of a pattern crisis, in just speaking it out, I got it. There is nothing like talking a pattern out with someone who you know isnt looking at you like you are just barely on this side of crazy-ville. Even over the phone, I know she wasnt looking at me like that and if you were Mum, please leave me to my delusions!
So, with three major projects off the needles, I dont know what to do with myself! I have a goodly ammout of slow time at work and short of scanning the internet, socks are on my plan. I am casting on socks for my sisters soon to come bundle of joy. I am thinking of just making as many socks out of the Fiesta Baby Boom, Alaska colourway, as I possibly can. Even if you overlook the ironic title of the yarn, the colourway a fitting attribute to the Auntie who knit them but I also know from personal experience, that babies lose a lot of socks and that more often than not, the few pairs that you DO have matches for, the dryer has to eat one every load and it is never one of those odd ones. Once I get sick of knitting 44 st round baby socks in ‘Alaska’, I will move into my leftover stash because what could be more perfect that odd socks on purpose. I mean, look at Little MisMatched socks! People pay big bucks for those and I can make loads of baby socks AND pare down the leftover stash! Not to mention that baby Bolliger will then have socks that match those worn by their Auntie, Nana and Mom…and you cant buy that kind of love connection.
Adventures of a Sisu Girl 