I just found this on my computer. I did this about 7 years ago or so. Sure brings back memories.

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For some reason I came across a bunch of really neat patterns today. They are:

• Trigger Finger Mittens
  They call them Glittens (the marriage of mittens and gloves) but we know what they’re really for. HUNTING DEER. Which reminds me, I promised to knit a pair of these for Les’s Dad. MUST REMEMBER. Please someone remind me as soon as I finished my hat and mittens for aunt Liz.
• Plaited Basket Scarf
• Crocheted Rosettes
• STRAWBERRIES!
• Hee hee fox.
• Tips for knitting lace

I also finished a mitten yesterday, but I left it at home so I’ll photograph it tomorrow. Yay!

This is so exciting! My parents took me to a wool store yesterday and my brother bought this for me for my birthday. It’s so beautiful. 100% wool (a blend of Corriedale and Merino) by Manos del Uruguay in the Multi Mar colourway. I’ve always wanted to use the word “colourway” in a blog entry. I’m going to make this into a hat for my aunt.

My parents showed up at around 2 in the afternoon. We played a bunch of fooz; I got to pretend that I was really good at it and taught them how to play. My mom says fooz is harder to play than soccer.

After fooz, we ate some delicious home-made cheesecake (cheesecake!) and then went out wool shopping. Les came along because he wanted to head out to the Riocan, but then he grumbled the whole time about how long I’d taken in the wool store. (It was a wool store! If we’d been in a Jacques Villeneuve store, he would have spent just as long there.) We dropped him off at 7 and went to Frankie Pesto’s (which was delicious) and then home for more cake. My brother and I played Donkey Kong! It was a pretty great day.

I just read this post about The Idea of the Dress via Sew? I Knit!. I knit for a lot of reasons, but this is definitely one of them.

For those who are interested in the more sarcastic side of fashion:

A still-life of less prosaic nature was painted by one Dr. Casagrandi in 1900. Reading a paper before the medical association in Rome, he reported on his bateriological examinations of trailing skirts, for which experiments he had employed a number of women to walk for one hour through the city streets. To his satisfaction he found large colonies of germs including those of tuberculosis, typhoid fever, tetanus and influenza, not to mention lesser bacilli, all of which were represented on each skirt.

Are Clothes Necessary?

Finished Project #4 for 2006

In the middle ages, people believed that bear cubs were born formless and that their mother licked them into shape.

This makes me want to make Cthulhu Amigurumi REALLY BADLY.

I’m almost finished with mitten #1. This is exciting!