I sure enjoyed myself in the last few waking hours… I made a strawberry hat from the Ann Norling fruit hat pattern. It’s for my friend Mandy who had her little girl last week, maybe Monday? It’s adorable!

Now I think I’m going to make some matching Fast Florida Footies using the 8-size pattern I just wrote… where the foot is pink and the rolled cuff is green… and I’m going to try that crochet bobble edging on it, and see if it looks a little like strawberry leaves. Why not?

Baby socks take no time at all, and even if they don’t fit for long (the baby was just over 7 pounds, not big) they will make the grownups smile for a while. The only concern is how many stitches I need per bobble, I can’t remember that right now. If it needs a lot of stitches per bobble I might end up with 3 leaves per foot, and it would be cuter with five or more. I’ll have to go dig through my notes from my class last weekend. I’m looking forward to this.

Brian and I are scheduled to sing at Altu’s tonight as The Fabulous Heftones. I sent out a postcard mailing to about 120 people this week, which announces this performance and five others. Well, Brian has a pretty bad cold and won’t be able to sing today. We’re not even sure if he’ll feel like being on stage for 2 hours. So, I called our friends Barbara and Larry (they are in our band, Abbott Brothers), and they are going to join me on stage as a trio. We’ll make it work. We’ll have fun, there will be music, we know more than 2 hours’ worth of music that all 3 of us can play together as a team, and we’ll have a performance.

Actually, I’ve been coordinating the music for Altu now since February of 2003, and this is the first time I’ve had to scramble because of illness. Once before someone else had to bow out (not for illness) but he got his own substitute, another performer who had also already performed for us there, and it was a non-issue. We have been very lucky, I’d say. Well over 100 performances and two mini-hiccups is not bad.

I’ll miss Brian… I really lean on him. I learned how much when I tried to sing in Ann Arbor at the ukulele gathering that one weekend in January this year. I sometimes forget how to start some of my songs, but Brian just plunks it out on his uke and I’m off and running. With Barbara and Larry, who I’ve played music with for almost 10 years, I’ll be just fine and we’ll have a good show.

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