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Friday

We hope you've had a pleasant week; it's so wonderful when Friday rolls around again! I have the day off so the pups and I are going to take care of some overdue projects and do a little more holiday knitting. Many stores here will have been open from midnight on—can you imagine?

My holiday knitting includes some hats and some boot socks, because Sister found a place in Austin that can distribute these types of items on a regular basis to the people who are living on the street. My dear league of knitting volunteers? You'll be so happy with this place! It's practically perfect.

My gift knitting is going to be delightful to anticipate finishing because I've ordered some of these fabulous gift tags. Fabulous!

The pups are glad we have some time off; it's been hectic lately. Here's our favorite fursons deciding whether to allow a photo:

I guess they took a secret dachshund vote:

Happy Friday to you!

Lace for Holdups

Beautiful-Sister helpfully modeled the completed Flared Lace Smoke Ring that Cassie inspired us to knit.

Here it is as a glamorously functional cowl:

And here it is as a tubular lacy scarf, glamorously functional for holiday liquor store holdups:

All-righty! Theoretically, we should have dressed/blocked it first, but Laura was handy and so there you have it. Cassie wrote earlier that this was a fun pattern, and it really is. I enjoyed working on this during free moments. I'm casting on for a version in laceweight wool now that I know the pattern repeat.

That Splendid Cynthia Does it Again

Cynthia's Art for Housewives is my must-see web journal every day. Now she's found textiles from Tajikistan. Scroll down this page to see the artistic knitted socks and gloves (with pompoms on the fingertips), and then scroll back up and follow the link to the elaborately emroidered skull caps. Amazing! Mille grazi, Cynthia!

Pups

We're becoming rather sullen here because it has been raining for several years. Well, perhaps we exaggerate. But is has been raining for days and days. And we are rather sullen. Here are Della and Mike in sunnier days:

Sullen, even surly, we still wish you the happiest day. Enjoy!

Bargaining Session

A proposition for you, dearies, bearing in mind that I like you! (Even after a week of clicking that red button, I still adore this link.)

Nearly 2000 homeless veterans here in Austin. I can knit pretty fast when I put my mind to it, and I can approach this as warming-up-one-homeless-vet-at-a time, but I thought I'd offer a trade with you. If you'll knit one cap, fingertip-less pair of gloves, or scarf with at least 25% wool content for Austin's local homeless, I'll knit a similar-sized item with similar specs for your local needs. I'll also be very grateful for your help. Let me know in the comments, or email me at knitdogs at austin dot rr dot com. I'll send my address. Deal?

Completely!

I was completely surprised and completely charmed by a completely unexpected package just full of Goodies Unlimited on Friday. And it was full of my favorite green fragrance things: Peppermint and Tea Tree Oil soap, and everything-balm, and lip balm, and body polish, and glide-on lotion!

This was the nicest surprise! And after delightedly sampling everything twice, I can say that everybody should have some of these goodies! Thank You, secret blog sister! I smell and feel fabulous!

Rainy Days and Mondays. . .

. . . never get Mikey down. He puts his best foot forward no matter what.

Cheerios-dearieos; happy day and happy knitting!