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Residents Urged

First it was "Not Just for Granny Anymore" and then it was the "New Yoga." How difficult it must be to think of something fresh to write about knitting for the mainstream media. So we have to give props to the writer who slugged his story about knitting's popularity thusly:

RESIDENTS URGED TO JOIN KNITTING CRAZE

Dear me! What will happen to them if they don't? Will Residents Who Won't Knit be URGED TO FLEE?

Should we be alarmed?

(There's actually a nice volunteer event in Shropshire associated with this story—The Big Knit 2005. You can read about it here.)

I'm simply giddy over that headline. If the urged residents won't be urged, will they be harrassed and intimidated by knitters who will, presumably, be roaming the streets, just hoping to meet up with non-knitters?

Beats me. The life you knit may be your own. (By the way, you can see more of the knit designer Alexander Serafimov's work here.)

Oh well. Maybe you had to be there. Or not. Meanwhile, take a look at the galleries of Liz Powner's knitted pop stars.

Mikey urges residents to walk their dachshunds.

Cheers!

Doll Collection

We are making use of our temporarily at-ease knees and getting lots of non-knitting stuff done, but I do want to point you to the last couple of entries at brillante Cynthia's Art for Housewives. Cynthia has unearthed every kind of doll you can imagine, and several that you couldn't possibly imagine. A couple that you wouldn't want to imagine :-)

We hope you make some time today to learn what artists have done and are doing with dolls. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is surf the links that are provided in the 26 and 27 April entries. Have fun! Be amazed!

Dachshund.

Auf deine Gesundheit!

Not Lots

We wish we had boat-loads of interesting knitting news to tell you, but while we are mentally composing some very interesting knitting, we only have our cheerful socks to show:

I keep forgetting to tell you about the yarn. It's Froelich Blauband Maxi Ringel, and I bought mine from Julie. I have this green, some orange, and two additional skeins of a nice purple-violet-lavender. So that's that on the knitting front.

Pups

We weren't able to attend the Weiner-dog Races in Buda (warning! annoying pop-up) this weekend because one of us was having trouble with our knees, but you can watch a short video by scrolling about halfway down the page and selecting the video link on the right-hand side. You'll see lots of people acting silly over lots of dachshunds.

Saddened as we were about missing the event, we completely perked up around here yesterday afternoon because all of us, furry and otherwise, were able to go for a proper walk for the first time in a what seemed like a very long while.

Mike, Jack, and Della are extremely pleased at this turn of events. How is it possible, you ask? Well! My most excellent nephew took this photo of my interim knees that tells the whole story:

Knee braces may look awful to you, but for us, they are enabling dachshund-walking! Yay! And regular walking! (and driving! shopping! and everything else you use your knees for :-))

Mike likes to wash his feet in the water bowl upon our return. You can imagine how Jack and Della feel about that.

So that's our tiny bit of news. And, it's Tuesday!

Cheers!