Addi needles. . . replaced

So I mailed back my defective needles two or three weeks ago with shipping confirmation. They were delivered Saturday, January 18, and yesterday I got my replacement needles. The replacements look smooth so I assume they'll function fine, the only thing I'm a bit miffed about is that when Sheila, from Skacel Returns, emailed me telling me to send them to her for a replacement, she'd said that she'd also "include a gift for your inconvenience." She must have forgotten. But she raised my expectations!

Knitting Round-Up (January)

The holidays were fun and now I'm back to business. After finishing all of the kids' holiday knitting, I finally finished doll shorts when I got home:

They were originally too large, so Princess asked me to fix them. Unfortunately, "fixing" them meant frogging the entire article and reknitting, but since they were doll shorts, it only took an afternoon.

Behold, my new pair of socks! They actually kind of fade into the woodwork (pun intended), but theses are Fleece Artist BFL Sock, knit toe-up with reinforced Riverbed construction and the Baby Cable Rib from Charlene Schurch's first Sensational Knitted Socks book. I only had to knit five socks to end up with two that fit, I've got to be better about that.

This is my new project: Padded Footlets, from the Interweave Press Book "Favorite Socks." It's in Opal 4-ply. It was the only non-variegated yarn I had that didn't need to be dyed or was already attached to a project. I'm not crazy about the color, but I suppose that's why it's been marinating in my stash for so long (at least five years). I want to learn how to do the double-thickness sole and see if I can incorporate that into Cat Bordhi's Riverbed Architecture (since that's where I always get my holes, and doing heel stitch in the increases has its own problems).

What to do with defective Addis?

So in November, I bought a pair of Addi Turbos from Little Knits. Between being out of town for different holidays, catching up on school, and being sick, I didn't look at the Addis until today, and oh no, I have a problem!

The tips are not smooth. At all. Around. This has never happened before, in all of my years of ordering Addis not ordering from Little Knits. Anyway, I called Little Knits this morning and it went straight to voice mail, so I left a message. I'm half afraid they're going to say "all sales are final, yadda yadda, contact Addi," but I guess I'll wait and see. Not that I get many comments, but if anyone knows what you're supposed to do when this happens, please comment.