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Things must be getting a bit less chaotic around here because at odd moments of the day, I am thinking of projects I want to start. Yes! It's the haunting siren song of startitis! Must. Ignore. Until at least next weekend. But there are mittens I want to knit from the books that wonderful Minna surprised me with, and I want to knit them right away! Plus, the Applebutter red and gold for the Knitted Stitch Cardigan is practically shrieking my name. Well. I intend to resist the call to start stuff until things are more organized here. Or at least until next weekend.

Speaking of the weekend, Mikey is so ready!

I have lots of work to do this weekend; I am hoping I can do some of it on the patio with Mike, Jack, and Della. It's been a long week!

One thing I meant to tell you about earlier this week, from an entry I read on BoingBoing.net. They linked to an online magazine called ReadyMade that was featuring an article on how to turn your favorite ratty old t-shirt into a pillow. Now, turning a t-shirt into a pillow is not a completely brilliant new idea, however, I love the idea of having a pillow made from, for example, your old Slayer t-shirt. I have a tee from a marine research place I used to work, and I wore it a lot because it reminded me of the time I was wearing it and I got to pilot (for about 5 minutes) the Research Vessel Lionel A. Walford. As the years passed, this tee became too tight to wear comfortably (well you KNOW how cotton shrinks!!!). So I think I'll make it into a pillow I can keep in my bedroom and see every day because it points to such a happy memory. Maybe you have a shirt like that too.

We wish you a Fabulous Friday and a wonderful weekend full of opportunities to make happy memories. Cheers!

Every day a new beginning

We admit to being in a foul mood after losing our knitting time to cleaning up after spammers. However, we know you've come to expect cheerier content, thus, we leave you with a cheerier image than the one in last night's entry, one we're sure Sheridan would not find appalling. Little Jack reminds us that things always look better in the morning, don't they :-)

Happy Thursday, everyone!

If Sheridan were here, he'd be appalled

Our entire knitting-time budget was used up deleting spammer-pings, one by one. Perhaps there is an easier way to do it? I did it the laborious way, so now I'm vexed with all spammers everywhere.

We also ran out the clock on our dachshund photo-shoot time. Instead, we present "Count the Dots." Look closely!

Hee! Happy Thursday! See you tomorrow!

Bogus Lace

Hiho, knitters and knitblog-readers. Happy Wednesday! It has remained rather gray and drizzly here, so I tried for an indoor photo of my phoney-baloney lace shawl. The colors are very much off; the wall behind the music stand (digression: like many other knitters, I use a music stand to hold charts and patterns-in-progress) on which the shawl is draped is actually a nice mistletoe green, not gray at all.

A little closer:

Cheerful! This is a simple triangle knit with variegated laceweight on US9 Addis. It's not lace, but it's lacy, isn't it :-) Talk about yer mindless knitting! Bogus, bogus, bogus lace! I like it and will be happy to wear it. I'm exactly a third of the way into the increases, and knitting it, I am reminded of how lovely it is to knit with lovely wool yarn. Laceweight is the only weight I've tried from Morehouse, but I can't imagine any of their other weights could be any less soft or cuddly. Winter is a good time for cuddly, even in Central Texas.

Bogus Cakes and Champagne

I kept going back to look at the tea room referenced in yesterday's entry. Knitted foodstuffs always fascinate me, but the idea of knitting a radio is really brilliant! Why not a payphone? A china cupboard? Could you make a chaise that was a Latvian mtten? A headboard that was a Fair Isle sweater? To what extent can knitting be stiffened and shaped into something that is still textile, but textile masquerading as something else? No more bogus than calling gigantic stocking stitch "lace," I'd think! And why, with all these knitted cakes and sushi and plucked chicken hats, has no one knit a wedding cake? Dripping with lace and knitted rococco embellishments? Imagine Miss Havisham's Bridal Breakfast at Satis House knitted up in all its rotted splendor. Spooky! As my smart nephew says: "Is someone writing this stuff down???"

Pups

We have happy hounds here; even though the days have been gray, they've been a bit cool, so our little hot-dogs have been feeling frisky. They love their little garden! Makes the move completely worthwhile. Here's Jack showing off one of the lime trees:

Mikey just shows off his pearly whites:

We wish you a happy day! If you knit something delightfully bogus, send us a photo, okay?

404 Blues

A bit of unpleasantness with our ISP has been resolved after chipping away at the problem since last Thursday. Della was quite alarmed by our 404 status. We are missing our February entries from last week with all of your nice comments, but we are exhausted from battling with Technical Support.

I'm still knitting on the projects I mentioned last week; this semester is demanding and I find I've had to give up a bit of knitting time for reading texts time :-(

However, we wanted to let you know we are alive and well and back with bells on! We'll take new progress and pup photos mañana. Meanwhile, did you see that totally knitted tea room? Ciao, babies! We'll see you around the blog ring!