Squirrels!

This is neat. If you’re a lego fan, making a belt like this would be super awesome.

GUYS! I am so excited. I’m getting a leather jacket for my birthday tomorrow! And you have to help me decide on jackets! Here are some of the ones I like. This one is my favourite:

Casual style lamb leather jacket with detachable liner

The others are below the fold. Give me your vote in the comments!

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These are the colours we get every year, and they’re wonderful. They’re really deep and beautiful. The package on the left has jackets for the eggs, and the two on the right have dye in them. You can get them at Highland Farms (in Canada) and probably some other places as well. What colours do you guys use?

Bunnies abound on the Internets this week! I LOVE this tote (and the idea of covering delicious and yet disgusting marshmallow animals in paint, flying in the face of starving Ethiopians everywhere) and I LOVE Leftover the Bunny (below the fold, click “more” to see it). Happy Easter everyone! Soon I can drink juice! I cannot stress this enough. JUICE!

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I am just getting out of my haze of overwork, so bear with the Saturday Pettern Day lateness! Here it is, #35.

If you are knitting or have already knit a pattern that I’m talking about, leave me a comment and I’ll update my post with a link to your version. If you’ve written up a pattern and you want me to link to it, send me an email or leave me a comment and I’ll post it! It makes the list longer and my job easier.

• New patterns from Knitty! I really like the Lace Ribbon Scarf, Laminaria, and Mosey. I find the Paw Cozy to be ridiculous. This is the quintessential unitasker.
• I really like the Prismatic Scarf.
• Here’s Whitney’s 70’s Ski Hat.
• Aw! A Little Giraffe!
• This great Strawberries pattern has been turned into a bookmark! I think that’s so neat.
• Here’s a Flowering Vine Bookmark as well.
• The Morning surf scarf. Example here.
• This is really really cool: Make a giant blanket.
• These swirly mittens are very much like Eunny’s Anemoi mittens.
• Need a giant olive?
• Thanks to Orata, I have two new magazines to follow! I don’t like any of the Biba patterns, but I do like their trends section. And I like the Inside Loop! My favourites are Matilda, Treenah, Express Lane, Jules and Maude.

I don’t know whether to scream with cuteness or scream of inaccuracy. Where to start!? I will be nice. It’s so cuuuuuuuuuuute! But where is the cerebellum? And the bits that attach to the eyes? And the brain stem?

The eyes are adorable, but of course the vacant expression gives me the impression that the bunny has been lobotomized.

I have to admit that I’m curious to see someone perform a lobotomy. Not in real life, because that’s too barbaric for words, but maybe something from a video archive or documentary. It’s like being curious of what it’s like to see someone die.

This bunny is taking me to a dark place!

Stare into the abyss… Let it take you deep down…

The irony. Magazines, destined otherwise for the recycle bin, reused/recycled in a different way: to make something that will contain the only things you can’t recycle.

BEES??

Beads.

Before we get to today’s post, I have an announcement:

I’m looking for Yarnival! editors again!

Drop me a line if you feel like hosting next month. Here’s some information if you don’t know what Yarnival! is, and here’s where you can submit your articles. If you’d like an example of what Yarnival! can look like, here’s February’s edition! You can also check out the Yarnival! archives.

A bit intense and orange, and I’m not sure about the fabric that’s being generated, but hey, it’s knitting and it’s awesome. What do you think is in that magazine? $20 says it’s boobies.