Here is the knitting news:

A dear friend asked me to knit a Berry Hat for an upcoming baby shower. This friend and I go way back, so the request is not the problem. She doesn’t like the recipient, wants to give the hat more in the spirit of ‘take that’ you evil so-and-so and she wants to pawn it off as her own work.

I am never above giving evil so-and-so’s their due. I relish the planning of such strategies, so much so that I fear I will never see the Pearly Gates. However, this plan is fraught with pitfalls. The first and foremost being that these women will be so overcome by the beauty of the hat and clamor for one of their own, that I will become ensnarled in an endless web of knitting to cover my dear friend’s lying ass!! So I think I shall knit the little cap, but only one shall be knit. And then she too will become a Chick with Sticks.

Actually, now that I think about it, it is the best plan ever! I shall indeed knit the thing of startling beauty. My friend will pawn if off as her own and bask in her ill-gotten glory. She will be caught unawares by the pleading of the multitudes – ‘please knit us one too’ they will cry. She will be forced to perfect the art (she is a newby to the craft) of knitting in order to maintain the ruse. A knitter will be born/hatched/spawned. pick your poison verb.

It’s perfect, I tell you, perfect! mwah-ha-ha-ha

Go see Rachael’s new table! She is now under the gun to host a dinner party. In her effort at crowd control she has mentioned that her cat attends to its ablutions on the table.

I thought I would share this puppy pic in the interests of full disclosure. Now that the food industry has to label everything that goes into their products, maybe it is high time for hostesses to do the same.

Warning: food consumed at PurlingSwine’s may contain microscopic amounts of dog spit.

eat up – it’s good for you!!

Go see Rachael’s new table! She is now under the gun to host a dinner party. In her effort at crowd control she has mentioned that her cat attends to its ablutions on the table.

I thought I would share this puppy pic in the interests of full disclosure. Now that the food industry has to label everything that goes into their products, maybe it is high time for hostesses to do the same.

Warning: food consumed at PurlingSwine’s may contain microscopic amounts of dog spit.

eat up – it’s good for you!!

It’s hot & humid. The dust in my house has turned to grime. Thank God for cordless telephones – you can distract yourself with friends while you clean and trick yourself into thinking that you have a cleaning person. (it’s my fantasy world, leave me alone!)

If you think you are going to be working on Banff – which is coming along quite nicely, thank you very much – you had better turn on the air conditioning. Why didn’t I knit Banff first and then the Tied-up-Tee? That cotton yarn is much more condusive to steamy knitting!

Speaking of the TuT – here she is in almost all of her glory. In order to be truly tied up, I need to get to a notions store and buy some leather lacing. The pattern calls for I-cord laces. I didn’t like the looks of that and did some research. Consulting Montse Stanley’s Knitter’s Handbook, I gave the picot cord a whirl. That is a great technique and I’m glad to have learned it, but still not good for this sweater. So it is to the store for leather lacing. Since this sweater will be worn mostly, if not entirely, with jeans and boots by daughter #1, it will be a good thing.