Last night my mom and I attended First Friday, which has kind of been a tradition for us since I moved here a little over a year ago.
Does your town do First Friday? It’s actually kind of cool. The first Friday of every month the galleries Downtown stay open until 8:00 and invite people to tour the galleries.
So my mom and I were wandering around, admiring the art, when I happened upon what looked like my hideous Knitpicks socks! I had to do a double take. I couldn’t believe it. So I walked over to the display and, lo and behold, I saw another pair of socks that I own! For a brief moment I thought my freaking sock collection was on display at this art gallery! then I came to my senses. I looked at the price of one of the socks. $30.00. The artist was selling about 10 or more pairs of handknit socks in the gallery and, apparently, she or he used the same Knitpicks yarn that I have used.
I don’t know. There is a part of me that feels this is wrong. Maybe it’s because I didn’t think of it first. But I don’t know if handknitted socks are so “cutting edge” that they constitute being sold in an art gallery. Now, maybe if they were hanpainted and handspun and the pattern was totally and completely like nothing I’ve ever seen before, then I could see the justification. But just plain old regular hand knit socks?
November 4th, 2006
Have you heard of NaBloPoMo? I found out about it over at Amanda’s place. I have decided that, over at my other blog, Blatherskite, I am going to post at least once day for the month of November. It’s been 4 days and I feel like I’m on a roll! I’ve missed blogging. It’s therapeautic, if anything. I’m sure most people don’t give a rat’s ass about what I have to say, but oh well 
. I like doing it.
So, since I will be needed the blog fodder over at Blatherskite, I think I’m going to take this opportunity to move the Blacksheep party over there. I’ve talked about this before, but I think now is a good time to go for it. Will you follow me over? I hope so! I would totally miss you if you didn’t. I feel like I have made some friends over here on this little blog and I would be very sad if I didn’t hear from you again because of this decision. I know some of you already read Blatherskite so it won’t be that big of a jump.
If you haven’t read Blatherskite before you should know that It is a little bit free-form over there. It’s a mish-mash of all kinds of things that pop into my head. Some of it can turn a bit political and I lean to the left a bit. Just thought you might like to know that in case political stuff offends you. I am going to try and figure out how to allow readers to subscribe to categories so that those who don’t care to read my rants can just subscribe to the knitting content.
With that, I will let you know that my first knitting post is up at Blatherskite. Enjoy!
Update: I’m going to have to close comments on this post. I’m getting hit with comment spam. Hope to see you over there!
November 4th, 2006