For Valentine's Day, I am hoping to have a pair of slipper socks finished for Rich, and he has asked for a resistance hat with a red, white, and blue tassel to represent our country - he is a veteran and says his oath to protect the Constitution from enemies, foreign and domestic, never expires - and I am working on a surprise project you can see up there, too.

If you look, you can see that I am in the middle of surgery on that project, because I made a mistake that I could not live with (after I ripped it back entirely and started over when I realized it was the wrong size), and decided to drop the stitches back to correct it. Then I found a similar mistake, and that is why there is another needle in there. I've gotten past it now and am back to the finishing of it. Rich and I had an early Valentine's Day lunch at a local Italian restaurant, and I was able to work on it while we waited for our meal and in between courses.

My design work is still Qidyssat Katrin, which should be ready for beta knitting by September, and published in November. Those are the four projects in my project bag at the moment. I have the next four queued up, as well, according to my plan of "Something Old, Something New, A Design, From My Queue," but I'm trying to focus on these.

Now, I'm about a quarter of the way through Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, and I don't hate my only presidential hero yet. There are a few valid criticisms of his presidency which can be made (though the darling of modern people is in error in my view, as he did what he could to keep economic collapse at bay, but it had been at work for a couple decades before him, and it was his successor's policies which prolonged the Great Depression), and his creation of the border patrol and immigration limits have had lasting effects that I don't know that he foresaw, given his personal and political dedication to racial harmony. It does appear that he was busy cleaning house after the mess that President Harding left, but that he was a faithful man and husband, and there is no whiff of scandal or infidelity in his entire life. I appreciate that.

Also, I finished both The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax and The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax. I've started A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax, and will likely finish it tonight or tomorrow. These are not long books, and they are fun and easy to read. They include some things I really don't love about our government, but show the best of our ideals, as well.

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// posted by Ranee @ Arabian Knits @ 6:12 AM