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Learning to read

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The deep freeze still has the fleece and the weather hasn't cooperated to allow time to wash it outside without freezing or drowning, so on to another thing.  Had started a sock with a multicolored yarn a while ago and while disappointed with the way the yarn was patterning, I was determined to finish, but then I realized the connecting end wasn't connecting as it should and ended up with a big gap.  I was so frustrated I put it away.  It's not even entered my mind until a fiber mentor cajoled me into trying a 2-color sock.  "It's easy.  See, here's a book with PRETTY, POSSIBLY PERIOD, PATTERNS."  It only took one look.  That one!  It's been so much fun that when I saw the original sock yesterday I felt reenergized. I ripped it all out and started again and it's working!  I've not done much knitting and have been regularly frustrated to the point of putting the item aside, but I think I'm starting to "get" it.  I knew I shoul