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I put in a few hours at Granny’s this week. She is having her yearly sale and asked me to cover some hours over two days. Whenever I work for Granny, my goal is to owe her money at the end of the day. Pictured above is part of my earnings, the rest of it is intended for gift giving and wasn’t included in the photo shoot. The yarn is Fino, an alpaca/silk blend – I am on the hunt for another shawl pattern – Knitting Nature and some steel crochet hooks. Funny, even though I do not crochet, I have some strong opinions about plastic crochet hooks!

We are having a snow storm this morning. Here is a shot of my Bridget being turned into a dalmation. And now for a slide show I like to call “Dogs are Idiots, Scratch my Belly” …..

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check out my new swimming headgear! a big thanks to Mary for the bday prezzie! I will certainly be the talk of the temple and will be leaving them in my wake (literally!).

You will be happy to hear that I have ordered some yarn for my upcoming sweater project. I decided on Araucania Nature Wool from Webs. The price was so fantastic that I did what I swore I wasn’t going to do – order yarn without a project in mind. I ordered a sweater’s worth of both color #8 and color #41. Can I just say that $4.69/ball beats yarn store employee discount? I felt it would be fiscally irresponsible not to order more yarn.

If you also read Cara’s site (and who amongst us doesn’t?), you will have read the hilarious story of Janice & Marge. What she may not have mentioned is all the bitching she is doing about being Marge. I don’t know what she has against the Marges of the world, but man oh man there is some deep sh*t there. Knowing that such Marge hostility exists in this world makes me even happier to be Janice.

Here is some Marge in poetry – when Cara sees that Marge is not just some blue-haired cartoon, maybe she will have a change of heart.

“Still the world is wondrous large, — seven seas from marge to marge”
In the Neolithic Age by Rudyard Kipling

“Lines I write the first time and the last time.
He who works in fresco, steals a hairbrush,
Curbs the liberal hand, subservient proudly,
Cramps his spirit, crowds its all in little,
Makes a strange art of an art familiar,
Fills his lady`s missal – marge with flowerets.”
One Word More XIII by Robert Browning

can I just say that the whole lady’s missal thing is weirding me out a little? I’m not sure what a missal is, but I don’t want to go anywhere near it, let alone cram it full with flowers.

hold the phone – I just looked it up. whew, I feel better.

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I know many of you are suckers for the button tin. Here are some pictures of mine.

This was inherited from my Grammy. Many of the buttons are loosely tied together and many came from dress shirts – carefully snipped off and tied together before the shirt went to the rag bin. I have to confess that I myself have not added much to the button tin. At least not many buttons – all that incidental crap in the first picture are things I have tossed in there when I couldn’t be bothered to find a real home for them.

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I went digging through the bin to find a button for a little FO – a finished Calorimetry! I started this project while mulling over my recent yarn dilemas.

Click here for a look at the button options. The button sits at the nape of the neck, so I used the one on the bottom right since it has the lowest profile.

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yarn: Plymouth Soy Silk Stripes – thanks Kathleen!
pattern: Calorimetry
recipient: unofficial D#3, Baby Ruben!

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thank you thank you for your birthday wishes! and your many suggestions regarding my sock and yarn choice suggestions. For now I am ignoring the socks. I want to simply attach the Koigu and finish the damn things, but fear that I will never wear them if they are mismatched to such an extent. On the other hand, I do not have the knitters’ stomach at the moment to start ripping the finished sock. So I am setting the whole damn thing aside.

As for the BeaverSlide ……. I have been carrying the colorcards all over soliciting friends’ advice. My first thought was to go with the BeaverSlide Fisherman Weight in the color Autumn Dogwood. It is very close to the chokecherry. But Margene tells me that the fisherman weight is considerable heavier that the worsted. I don’t want to go any bigger than 4 st/inch in gauge.The waters have gotten further muddied by Kathleen’s suggestion that I check out Peace Fleece and by bins of Cascade 220 at a local yarn shop.

In mother in law news ….. her pace maker was put in on Tuesday and her wrist surgery was yesterday. Both went well and she is feeling good. I believe she will be released from the hospital today!

hope you all have a great weekend!