Slouch, the hat

Introducing Slouch, the hat.



Photographic evidence that I am folding challenged. I followed the directions exactly but it looks a tad different than at knitty.com.

Full Frontal Foto


And for some reason, it looks a bit quirky on my head, so I forced the Irishman to model for me :)


Hurry up and take the feckin photo you eejit

Hopefully it will look better on Craig, the Super Engineer. He gets socks, too. And dinner anytime he wants. Because, when I first started to spin the pretty blue stuff, the wheel was ripping it right out of my hands and I thought it was due to the wool. I figured I was getting just what I deserved since I didn't check to see exactly which sheep it came from. But, after SE checked out my wheel and got me to buy new spools, the blue stuff started spinning up like a dream. Now I've got at least 100g and more to wrap off of the spools.



Hmmmm...what to make, what to make....

Peekaboo Pauliina!

PEEK



AAAHHH



BOO!!!




Pauliina the au pair finally got her Christmas thrum mittens. Just in time for her return to Finland **SOB** We will miss her a heckuvalot around here, even though she was only here for 4 months it's like our little sister went off to college. She's promised to return in August for the Annafest in Forchheim.

Pauliina, we miss you!!

I Knit Boring Things

Ohmigod, talk about design flexibility.

I'm watching the season premier of the L word tonight (which has had me waiting WAY too long for a season premier) and Alice is learning to knit.


Insert right needle through....

Then, later, in her knitting circle, a woman pointed out to her that what she was knitting would never fit over someone's head. To which Alice looked at her piece from all angles and finally wrapped it around her hips and decided aloud that it would be a really good harness for a strap-on dildo.



LMAO!

And all I can come up with is furry scarves....but, there is also the NOA 3 in 1, but I'm not finished yet - maybe tomorrow :)

Styling in the Snow

Baby Kerry with brother Jim and his wife Chelle in NC's version of a snow storm.



Chelle got a hat/scarf set from me for Christmas a couple of years ago and here she's trying to butter me up for a pair of socks ;)

And what a horrible Auntie am I that this poor child has nothing woolen on her head???? Ok, guys, thanks for the photo - I feel appropriately guilty and will make sure she has something soft and furry for next year :) Not that I mind.....

If you knit it, they will come...

Do you see? It worked - if you knit it, they will come :)



She loaned me the Folk Socks book and wrote a oh-so-subtle note about how cute these socks would be. Favourite daughter that I am (oh yes, I am - she told me in confidence, so she probably wouldn't talk about it again - but I'm the Favourite) I knit them up and held them ransom in Germany. And it worked, she drove through the Chunnel, across Brie land and through fields of sauerkraut to get her socks - and see me :)

And, along the lines of the-apple-didn't-fall-far-from-that-tree: as I sat thrumming my last thrums of my life (should God be so gracious) Mum was knitting up socks for Papa Bear. He of the "don't you dare knit me socks because my mother used to knit me socks and oh-God! the guilt that went with the socks, but oh, those aren't bad, maybe you could just knit me a pair of those, and those,too and those aren't bad either...."



Do you see what's on the arm of the sofa to her right? Do ya? Huh? Huh? That's MIL's knitting. I passed on two balls of Fun Fur and she's already got a very schnazzy scarf in the works. I swear, if I had a cat, it would knit, too.