week 28: new f.o. and a delicious corn salad
finished! ribbon-tied wool vest I finished knitting the baby top I started a few weeks ago and finally got it in the mail. Well, with a few hiccups. I’d been worried that I’d taken so long to knit it, that by now it wouldn’t fit. Babies grow so fast! So, as soon as I finished it I ran out to buy a small envelope at the local pharmacy, looked up my niece’s mailing address as soon as I got back, and stuck one of my Elvis forever stamps on the front of the package. There. Ready to ship! Or, so I thought. I put the package outside on top of our mailbox to make sure the mail carrier would see it, but when I went out to check later, the package was still there. Oh, that’s right, it was Wednesday, we rarely get mail on this day, so the mailman probably drove past our house. The next day, the same thing happened, which annoyed me a bit. So right before five, I drove down to …
