Crowns and Pins.

Yesterday afternoon I had to wander to the far reaches of town to go with boygenius to an appointment that stikes fear in the hearts of grown ups and kids alike...yup..he had to go to the dentist! This is his second time in as many days to go, as he has been in the process of getting a crown installed, and there have been complications galore through the process.

First he went in to get the crown installed and the temporary crown removed, and they tried with all their might to make it fit, but it wasnt meant to be. The bad boy was badly crafted by "the lab", so they had to do another casting and temporary crown installation while he waits for the second crown to be made. Yesterday he went back with a bad case of the angry gums, as the temp crown was not properly filed down to fit and it was making all the tissue around it pretty miffed. (this equaled 45 minutes of driving for a 2 minute fix, but now that boygenius is back to his normal bubbly self, it was so worth it.)

So after we managed to get back to the apartment, I decided that I was back in full spinning form, and that I was ready to take on finishing my second bobbin of corredale so I could ply some happy happy sock yarn. All was going swimmingly until I was midway through the plying process, when the pin that holds the treadle into the leg of the wheel came popping out of its home. (pout!)

I pushed it back into place, and I managed to get the wheel back in working order temporarily and I plyed to the end of my bobbin before calling it a night. This morning I emailed New Voyager to see what I need to do to fix the pin for good. Fingers crossed that it will be a simple and quick fix.

On the sock front, I finally managed to get a pic put up on Ravelry of the first sock in progress(my screen name is optimystik1 for all you Ravelers out there...). I think it only took me a month to get up the gumption to actually do it. I'm also giving the pic the distinction of being the first badly photographed knitting on this blog...It ain't graceful, but at least you can see what I'm talking about.

I realize that my stitches are all biasing, so I think I just might be doing something wonky...That goes back to the whole "figuring out how I knit" concept where I'm not quite sure just what I'm doing or how to correct it-at this point I think I'm way too far into the sock to worry about it- so I will just go on and knit a wonky twisted second sock and try to remember that its an issue when I get going on the next pair. Maybe its the way I enter the stitches when I knit in the round...I'll swatch and see.