Come on, Coupon

9 Dec

I was so proud of “Beatnik.”  It was knitting up well, I was fixing any miscrossed cables, I was making good progress…until I realized that it was knitting up too small.  You see, I have an issue with checking what they call gauge.  Yeah.  So that beautiful partial piece of green knitwear to your right has been

Bye for now, Beatnik.  We’ll meet again when I buy a pair of size 9 needles.  Which, incidentally, probably won’t be for a while considering that I finally started to do my holiday shopping.

In the age of the internet, when coupon codes and free shipping are abundant, I have managed to order things from websites that don’t offer either of those things.  I once wielded the power of buying a $75 pair of shoes for $55 with no tax or shipping charges.  Not today, my friends.  The internet is not that magical shopping mall for me tonight.  But it’s the internet.  There will be something new tomorrow.

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