Yes, we were playing buttons again. I get a little desperate for change sometimes, after sorting through the button pile for ages. My eye fell upon my double-honeycomb swatch. “Look, Ella,” I said, “we can snuggle the buttons into the little nests on this knitting!”
She was not interested, and took away the buttons I kept trying to snuggle into the cable sample. Finally I put the sample where she couldn’t see it, filled each compartment of the honeycomb with a button, and took a picture. Wouldn’t have considered it yesterday, but today I can see button-enhanced cable knitting in my future.
Speaking of playing, I got these goodies from Lion Brand to play with for my next INKnitters article. I’m writing about yellow, which is a happy, lovely color. Unfortunately, I have heard of teachers who discourage students from using yellow in their knitting (or quilting), saying, “Yellow is a difficult color.” We’ll see about that.
I had to replace my computer’s hard drive, which has cost me a lot of time reinstalling everything. Luckily, I was able to back up all the information on the old drive, but the programs themselves mysteriously failed to restore to the new hard drive. My advice to all: back up your computer frequently, and save all your original program disks with any installation notes.