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Three beautiful things from my past week:<\/p>\n

1. I had a nice birthday last weekend. My friend Rebecca baked me cupcakes, my parents sent a cake, I got to talk with my BFF and others, and I had text messages from nearly everyone else. Plus, I slept in, bought myself books (including one from a new-to-me bookshop across town), ate a free ice cream cone, and had pizza for supper, in addition to watching The Princess Bride<\/em>, reading, and knitting.<\/p>\n

2. A former teammate was in town visiting her boyfriend, and we got to meet up for a late breakfast earlier this week. It was nice to catch up (and to eat cheesy grits).<\/p>\n

3. Somehow, and I don’t even know how, I cast on too few stitches for my first pair of socks of 2026 — and I didn’t realize it until I was pretty much done working the heel. Yesterday, I put the sock on a circular needle so I could try it on before I began the foot, and it didn’t fit. But when I’d realized that 14×4\u226064, I thought, “I bet it would work as a fingerless mitt,” and it does. So I only had to rip out the heel and then figure out steps for a mitt (since I haven’t made a pair in a decade), rather than rip the whole thing back. I hope to finish the first one tomorrow and immediately start on the second so I’ll have the pair knit in time for spring!<\/p>\n

How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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