New Socks on the needles

This is some yarn I purchased on Ebay in August and it is absolutely beautiful!! It is hand dyed 100% Merino Sock Wool, in shades of blue, purple and pink. The seller was KBRECE and she has more up for auction that I'm watching. The quality of this yarn is superb! it is very soft, the colors are very deep and it knits into a really nice finish. I'm knitting on size 2 (US) bamboo needles and I'm knitting with the pattern in the picture, which is River Rapids Socks. This is a pleasant pattern, too. I'm really excited about this project, so hopefully it won't take too long to get done.

I'm off to Williamsburg on Wednesday for a library conference (VLA annual) and home on Friday evening. Then on Saturday my DH and I will be flying to Las Vegas to visit my brother and have some fun for almost a week, so my postings will be few and far between for a couple of weeks.

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First thing on the shelf is books!

This is my first attempt to post on blogger and I have great hopes that pictures won't be an issue. I've tried Bloglines to blog and couldn't upload pictures with any ease. I want this to be easy!!

In this picture, I'm the one on the left. I'm a Reference Librarian and I purchase medical titles for my library, among other things. This is the newspaper release photo when the Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation donated to our library to purchase books for our patrons to read. I completed this project in August 2006 and really, truly enjoyed this effort. They were very generous to us.