I have chosen my yarn and pattern for Ali's wedding afghan. I'm going to make brooklyntweed's Hemlock Ring Blanket in Lorna's Laces Shephard Worsted in Cranberry. I bought 900 yards (4 skeins) which should be plenty. Now I just need some size 10 DPNs so I can get started.

I have also finished my October Sockdown socks (Spring Cable) and I love them. I wore them on Thanksgiving and they were super cozy and comfortable. Love.

I feel like a hero when I manage to fix mistakes. Of course, the fix doesn't always work (last time I messed up on my Mystery Stole I had to rip back to my last lifeline and I haven't picked it up since) but last night it did. I realized that the line on my Jaywalker was wonky, and realized my mistake. About five repeats back I had done my decrease one stitch early. So I dropped back those stiches and fixed it. Now, that doesn't sound too hard, but each repeat I ripped back gave me two more stiches due to the nature of the stich pattern. It took about twenty minutes to pull everything back up right, but it worked, and now you can't even tell where the mistake was. I feel like a superhero.

All in all I'm really loving this pattern in combination with this yarn. It just looks amazing.

I have finished my mom's lacy hug-me-tight. I don't like it. It doesn't look perfect, it doesn't look close to perfect. And I'm not sure where I went wrong. I followed all the directions. The skewed edging is definitely my fault - I didn't distribute the edging correctly, but I'm not sure why the rest of it doesn't lay right. It's kinda floppy. Well, it's soft and the yarn is beautiful. I know mom will say she loves it, but I sure don't. Oh well.

You can really see the skewing in this picture.