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Just a little black dress but, how about the lace wrap...... I know I am supposed to tell you the yarn and the pattern, and I have before, I swear. You'll have to look through the archives if you need to know soon. Otherwise when Al is finished being a bridesmaid I'll ask her and post it again. I think it was an Interweave pattern. Have you ever been to Donna Boucher's blog Quiet Life? It is one of my favorites. She answers blog comments by commenting below them. I might adopt this style. It is easier than hunting for an email address. Do you mind? She always answers as Mizz Booshay. So if I comment on a comment I'm going to be Kathy Boyeah! Donna you don't mind do you? Look for me in the commments, too, then! This particular bride has instructed all the bridesmaids NOT to wear hosiery. What is the strangest request you have heard a bride make?

Long story short: (one of my favorite sayings) This is not a purse. This is not going to be a purse. This is only a test. We'll call this not a purse. This is not the end.

In the first scene we find the Incredible Huck on a "leave it" command. One little bunny just isn't ready to leave the nest. The rest are gone. This one wants more time before he ventures out on his own. I think you all know how I feel about this! He can stay until he's ready to go! But, really, I don't think I'll ever have another dog like Huck. Every little bit of him quiverred as he obeyed me and disobeyed every canine instinct he had to catch that littly squeaky toy that smells so good to him. In the last scene, we see Radar enjoying a day on the porch and modeling AL's scarf made from the yarn the Easter bunny gave her. I love the ruffle she put on the ends of the scarf. It is incredibly soft yarn. Remember, you're nobunny till some bunny comments you!

My neighbors are a good bunch. Little did Mary know when she got an inkling to have her haircut today, that I would catch her anawares and ask her to model the shawl. Doesn't her hair look great? The shawl, I am sorry to say, is NO softer after the first washing. I didn't have any Kookaburra left and used the Eu. stuff that is a no-rinse product. I HAVE to rinse. Do you rinse when you shouldn't? Usually I skip as many steps as I can when it comes to laundry, cooking, cleaning......so what is this rinsing compulsion? I am a huge Sandra Lee semihomade cooking fan. She shows me how to skip steps.....The only thing I don't quicken....is my naps.

Wink: almost the name of the yarn I bought yesterday. I kept telling the woman trying to help me that the name of the yarn was wink. oops it is WICK. Wait til' I show my new sock colors. I love this yarn. Tink: Knit....backwards. A new blog term I learned yesterday: Tink means to take your knitting back stitch by stitch. (as opposed to frogging with abandon) Link: Something I haven't yet mastered, but I will dear reader, for you! Kink: As in my neck. I need a massage. Shrink: My Knitpicks sock yarn. Sadly the socks are pretty much felted now and would fit a toddler. 2 pair no less. :( Ker-plink: sound of double point hitting the floor. Makes it easier to find. Sink: Chicago Cubs..... Jinx: Chicago Cubs.... Blink: Not what the baby bunny did while I took his picture for the blog. See his eyes? anymore to add? Feel free.

The Lorna's Laces top roll socks are coming right along. I do love the colorway of Somerset. Yarn is very very soft. Second sock knitting this evening. Follow-Ups: Huck's paws are practically perfect post pedicure. Will try mobile groomer next time. He seemed upset when we left him at our regular trusted wonderful groomer. Al wished for the sweater compensation to be a new dress she needs. She's got it! Thanks for how to post a link info. K. I'm grateful and will try it soon. The bunny brought Al some Lion and Lamb from Lorna's Laces. Silk and wool. Lovely stuff. The bunny found it at 40% off in the sale bin at a LYS. I'll show it to you soon.

This liberticious (I made that up) man was nearly the subject of a Guest Blogger post. On our way to Marengo, (Lynn drove) we pulled up at a stop next to the tax reminder man. If only I had time to toss him a ball of yarn.... however to do so would have infuriated the traffic behind us. I will stop at something, you see. While we are on the safety subject. Have you heard the saying: Pull to the Right for Sirens and Lights? Another ambulance got hit by a car in a nearby community this week during some snowy weather. This is every fireman's nightmare. So pass it on. Pull to the RIght for Sirens and lights. THis means, if you are in the left lane, and all the cars next to you are in the right lane pulled over, KEEP DRIVING with the ambulance behind you, until you have the opportunity to pull right. Dont just stop in the left lane. It is simple, but even I freeze up when the trucks are coming and Im driving with them behind me. Oh, Im soapboxing now. Not really, am I? Ju...

There isn't much I can say that will be more interesting than the Knitstress' account of her Knitgroup meet up at her local Starbucks. Her blog is decisions-decisions-decisions.blogspot.com. (Diane, just type that in your address bar and her blog should come up) I wish I knew how to post a link. Try this: The cute cowgirl needle case was brought to me by the Easter Bunny. She is one smart wabbit.

I wish I could remember the knitblogger who posted about offering leftover yarns to the birds for nesting. It was a fun idea and I've decided to copy you. Now, I offered 3 yarns this morning: silk, wool and acrylic. Let's see what my local birds prefer. Consideing it is supposed to snow tonight, I'm betting on the wool. Many of you share my love of dogs and cats. I am going to use a different groomer for Huck. Has anyone tried a mobile pet groomer? How do you find a good groomer?

Al says to tell you all "NEVER MAKE THIS SWEATER!" The love affair officially ended this morning. The Rams Horn Jacket from Knitting Nature was, in all fairness, and according to AL, the worst pattern writing she has yet to experience. She disliked the entire process so very much, that she doesn't want the sweater. soooooooooooo, I asked her, YUP, if I could try it on. She immediately gave it to me. Now, After I dropped some stitches while coloring eggs at the same time, Saturday night, I asked her to pick them up for me. She calmly told me no. She would not enable me. There was simply no reason she should do this when she felt I was entirely capable. Nevermind she had been working at the shop all day and probably was asked to do this same thing a dozen or so times. I believe she enables clients. (she was right, I sat down and redid the row picking up my own stitiches.) I was doing that awful thing Mother's do: feeling entitled to this one teensy thing she c...

or: No thanks, I'd like some nice safe food, like jelly beans...... Huck gets childlike around the Holidays. I think the only safe thing to put in his basket is bubbles. He loves to pop them. Regular old dimestore wand and soap bubbles. No he never gotten ill from them. Hope the bunny is good to you.

Well, I went to my LYS 3 Bags Full in Northbrook yesterday hoping to cash in on the yarn sale. I arrived at the stroke of 10....all was oddly quiet as the lovely staff said hello. "Sales' upstairs they chirped" . When I got upstairs I could barely enter the room. Women everywhere. Some smelling of mothballs and chewing gum clearly there to cash in as well. Some asking for just lavendar colors, some looking for labels;( the Debbie Bliss crowd hovered over her yarns) some who clearly knit for babies by their stance in front of the Velvet Touch, and some who weren't sure what they wanted. If you been to Stitches Market you can imagine this. Moving by half-steps until the front row steps aside. I try to go with specifics in mind. Sock yarn, chunckies for quick knits, maybe a pattern booklet or two. I went back downstairs to the non-sale sock yarns. A pretty springlike palette jumped out at me in Lorna's Laces. Superwash no less. Against my best intentio...

My nephew gave us the Japanese Knitting Magazine this past weekend. Turns out the very bright boy on a engineering scholarship, didn't know he bought a crochet magazine, not a knitting magazine. I didn't bring it up. Just thanked him so much for schlepping it across the world for us. I certainly didn't ask him to bring it back and exchange it! Truth be told since I am crocheting a bit too these days, the magazine was fascinating. Look how they chart crochet. Very readable I think. The photography in this journal is pretty much unlike anything I've seen in our Knitting Magazines. Every single page is a beauty.

I got April fooled. Sort of. My neice called me from PA to April fool me and I played along. I love April fools day so I am on alert most of the day. The computer has been April fooling me however, so someone's having a good time with me. Probably my Nana. She absolutely loved April Fools day. We have long elaborate family stories of how we have had fun on this day. We have a bit of jelly bean overload in this house. Brach's, Sweettart (have you tried these, ohhhhh are they sour, and addictive) and Jolly Ranchers. I know I've mentioned that Helen Brach the candy heiress lived in our town of Glenview. So we have to have some Brach's beans and talk about how she's never been found. Al brought the others home because the real jelly bean lover in the house, had a crash on his bike yesterday and broke a rib. I think it is medically proven that jelly beans heal broken ribs, right? I am finishing the crochet shawl tonight. I haven't decided on a bor...