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Yes, the blog looks different. In my lameness, I tried stuffing around with my theme and somehow buggered up the sidebar so that the entire thing wouldn’t display, and I couldn’t get it back again. This is because I am lame at CSS and HTML. So this is a temporary blog till I work out a theme I like enough to stick to it, or until I manage to inveigle Emily into making it all pretty for me

Anyway, I am ready for the Southern Summer of Socks, which begins tomorrow! I cast off the Tofutsies socks this afternoon and have spent some time winding skeins into yarn-cakes and reading pattern books for inspiration. I took a photo of the sock yarn stash tonight, as proof of what I’m up against:

It shall decrease substantially over the summer! I’ve also added a new rule; if I purchase a new kind of sock yarn while the challenge is on, that yarn becomes part of the challenge. I think I’ll ease myself into it – I’ll be casting on in the morning on the train, so I’ll do something nice and easy like a plain toe-up in Colinette Jitterbug. The train is murder for casting on