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Step By Step (Ooh Baby … )

Step 1: We're gonna have some fun

Step 2: It's up to me and you

Here are more Jaywalker pictures, as promised, helpfully modeled by my sister, who was visiting.

We don't need no steenking bags

We STILL don't need no steenking bags

And as Adelin again demonstrates (not at all against her will, no not in the least), we were the darlings of our supermarket checkout line because we did all our own bagging, making the paper-versus-plastic conundrum as moot as a cow’s opinion. Yeah, we don’t need no steenking bags, no sirree bob.

I’m sad to report, however, that we never did discover How Jen Found Out, to my eternal regret.

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Jaywalkers done!

Completed Jaywalker socks

Yarn: Cherry Tree Hill Supersock (Superwash Merino) yarn in “Serengeti” colorway (purchased from Simply Socks Yarn Co.)
Pattern: Jaywalker socks by Grumperina
Needles: Size 1 Addi Turbo circulars

More pictures over the weekend, hopefully. An overcast morning sky doesn’t do indoor photography any favors.

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Tempests & Teapots

I’ve finished my Jaywalker socks, but have been procrastinating on blocking them into shape. Yarnstorm’s horror story about washing her superwash Cherry Tree Hill socks also has me worried about any potential color-bleeding, especially since this is my first experience with the yarn.

We haven’t seen the sun for days, smothered as it has been by a thick, wooly blanket of gray. New York City in the movies never rains unless it’s to bring two would-be lovers together. Where is my swell of violins? The crashing cymbals and singing uteruses? The picturesque drizzle over a horse-drawn carriage ride around Central Park as Harry Connick Jr. croons his left ventricle out? Monochromatic weather always leaves me sullen and pensive.

I turned to my husband last night, cocking my head to the side and frowning, “Do you think you know my secret, inner soul?”

“Yes, I love your tea-drinking, manic-depressive, Gothic, Elizabethan soul.”

And this is why I married the man. He doesn’t think I’m a loon.

I’ve been following discussions about fair trade, especially regarding Starbucks and its less-than-truthful claims. According to its policy, you can walk into any of their stores and ask for a cup of fair-trade coffee, and have the baristas brew it for you if it isn’t already percolating. GreenLaGirl has been putting Starbucks stores to the test, with varying results. Here’s another less-than-visible Starbucks policy that may sour your macchiato.

I’m not as militant as my very socially conscious (and involved) sister, Adelin, but this why I prefer to caffeinate from my local tea shop. Transfair USA, which provides the fair-trade certification, has a list of fair-trade coffee retailers.

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Crafting Weekend

One Jaywalker sock down, one more to go. I love how the colors pool to form stripes.

One Jayawalker down, one to go

I also made some Christmas stockings out of a couple of old sweaters that were long past their prime. The leftover fabric, married with some ribbon and buttons from my stash, found new life as floral embellishments.

Recycled-sweater flowers

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Jaywalker-Along

Jaywalker sock in progress

I’m taking part in my first knit-a-long, hosted by Cara of JanuaryOne.com, using Cherry Tree Hill’s Supersock Merino in their “Serengeti” colorway. The pattern by Grumperina can be found in the Sept 2005 issue of MagKnits.

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